If your looking for an easy way to teach your littles how to be more accepting and diverse, you need to watch this video. This is a profound video on anti-racism and discrimination. Jane Elliot was a third grade teacher in rural Iowa who thought, after Reverend Martin Luther King was assassinated, that her students had to learn more about what it's like to be the one being discriminated against. This was a great way to get the point across to a bunch of third graders. I love the way she was blunt and to the point. I also loved that her students were comfortable enough with her to open up about things they had already heard and thought to be true. I wasn't surprised by the way the "Blue Eyed Group" treated the "Brown Eyed Group". It only takes one person to put ideas of superiority in their heads, especially when they are a group of 8 year old children. You'll see just how easily influenced they are, which is pretty disturbing. This is obviously a very memorable video, it's still being used as a teaching tool 47 years later...
m, d. (November, 20 2012). Jane Elliot Brown Eyes vs
Blue Eyes. Retrieved Febuary 22, 2016, from https://youtu.be/G8c6IWIAFUI
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