This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Since getting back into radio on Sirius XM in October of 2014 I've had the

pleasure of talking to and interviewing some dynamic people.

One of the most impactful human beings I've ever had the pleasure of speaking

with was Jane Elliot. She's the former third grade teacher from Iowa who conducted something

called the Brown Eye blue eye exercise.

I mean get that right because she straightened me out on it.

It's not an experiment.

It's an exercise that she kicked off in her class April 5th, 1968 the day after Martin Luther King Jr.

was assassinated. What she discovered will chill you that racism it is so woven into the fabric of this country into our minds and to our

very psyches that it is almost impossible to eradicate but she spent the last 50 years of her life fighting that fight and I love

her immensely I call her cousin Jane well into her 80s she has all of the fight and

piss and vinegar she has all the fight of anyone a fight and

pis and vinegar she has all the fight of anyone a third her age and she is not tired

to confront racism wherever it is in the world and this is my my interview, part two, my interview with Jane

Elliot, and I hope you enjoy. So there were no cameras in this ninth grade

class, this third grade classroom of nine-year-olds, April 5th,

two that, what was it, 1968, April 5th, 1968,

50 years ago, there were no cameras there.

So how did the word spread of what you were doing and when did

the backlash how long did it take for the backlash so you did this every year

I didn't every year oh yeah I we did the exercise on Friday. I sent the kids home on Friday night. I was afraid to go home.

I sure you'd be across burning in my front yard because I know you know. You know

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