Jane Elliott American educator
Jane Elliott is an American diversity educator. As a school teacher, she became known for her "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise. She first conducted her famous exercise for her class on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Jane Elliott American educator - All White People Are Racist. Here's how it can be fixed.
Jane Elliott on Her "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise" and Fighting Racism
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A Conversation on Race and Privilege with Angela Davis and Jane Elliott is the latest installment of the student-led Social Justice Solutions series. Each year, we invite activists, thought leaders, and the community to explore action-oriented strategies to affect social change. This year we are honored to host two luminaries who have long been on the front lines of pushing the national conversation on race and racial justice forward.
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Jane Elliott American educator - All White People Are Racist. Here's how it can be fixed.
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do you say that all white sir races can
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you expound on that any any white person
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who was born raised in school in the
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United States of America if you aren't a
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either that where you decided to educate
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yourself because education in this
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country is about white as right Browns
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are right blacks got a stand back
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yellows mellow but whites we we educate
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in a way that says that white males have
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done all the adventures have made all
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the adventures have done all the
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discovery have made all and everything
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that is good and has been accomplished
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has been accomplished according to
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social studies which is actually
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antisocial studies by white males it's a
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lie but we do that in order to maintain
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the myth of white superiority the myth
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of race has to be maintained at all
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costs in this country because if white
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people have to give up the color of
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their skin as being something that makes
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them perfect what do they have left if
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we start teaching the truth about
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history if we start teaching about Nile
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Valley contributions to civilization it
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will totally change the way we conduct
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ourselves in the classroom it will have
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to Columbus didn't discover America you
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can't discover a place where people are
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already living but we celebrate that
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every October it's a lie we need to get
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over we don't we need to stop telling
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the myths and start telling the truth so
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when you tell people that their races
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and it it must have some kind of effect
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because most people will say I'm not
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race I'm not a racist why some of my
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best friends are black yeah and then you
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say name one or this one I don't see
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color and when some woman says to me I
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don't see color I say I knew that if you
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you wouldn't dye your hair that way or I
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say if you didn't if you saw color you
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wouldn't wear that shirt with those
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pants I believe that you don't see color
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it's an attempt to deny skin color and
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its attempt and attempt to deny what's
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wrong with seeing the color of my skin
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is it all right for you to see me kind
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of pink that's okay for me I don't mind
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and I suspect that you don't mind being
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seen the color you are you have a right
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and until people in this country and
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people in this world get it into their
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heads that the first modern human beings
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that evolved on this earth were black
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women they evolved in sub-saharan Africa
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about two hundred eighty thousand years
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ago and every human being on the face of
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the earth today runs the mint has the
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memory of those black woman's genetic
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structure in their genes now we don't
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want to admit that but that's the way it
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is and people as people move farther and
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farther from the equator their bodies
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produced less and less melanin so their
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hair their skin and their eyes got
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lighter as they moved into the East they
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ate a lot of fish in a lot of vegetables
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so their skin took on a different tone I
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found I found that out when I was
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raising little kids my husband worked in
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he had like he was a head of the produce
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department and they had lots of oranges
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that they couldn't sell he'll he'd bring
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him home and I was feeding my kids
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orange juice like you never saw in your
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life they began to have an orange cast
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to their skin I thought they had
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something a little problem so I took him
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to the doctor and she said who are you
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feeding these kids I said well lots of
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orange juice she said stop it if you
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wanted to stop being orange now if you
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think that skin color isn't anything
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other than the body's natural reaction
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to the natural environment get over it
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so if all white people are racist
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according to you can they be
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reprogrammed of course they can of
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course they can how much they can be you
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it's called education I'm an educator
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the word educator comes from the duck
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deuce which means lead the prefix e
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which means out the suffix a te which
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means the act of and the suffix or which
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means one who does an educator is one
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who is engaged in the act of leading
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people out of ignorance