[VIRAL] The Story of That Teacher Who Taught Her Kids to Hate
It all started with an assassination. Watch and listen to what Jane Elliot has to say about teaching children and adults a thing or two about racism. Perhaps Malaysians can relate to this?
What Jane Elliot had to say to a Malaysian
A Malaysian had the chance to hear from Jane Elliott directly and then also replicate what Jane did about 40 years ago, in a M'sian setting.
yugensays.comWhen Jane's story was aired on national TV, she received threatening calls from her town. Her parent's coffee shop was boycotted and her kids were beaten and spit-on in public.
yugensays.comThat viral video: Watch a teacher make her 3rd-Grade kids hate each other
Exclusive interview: The true story about Jane Elliot and her racism experiment
WATCH: The unknown two-part video documentary. Are you racist?
Who Jane Elliot is and why she wanted this experiment to happen
In response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. over thirty years ago, Jane Elliott devised the controversial and startling, Blue eyes-Brown eyes exercise.
janeelliott.comShe turned on her television to find out about the assassination. She remembers a (white) reporter, with the microphone pointed toward a local black leader asking "When our leader (John F. Kennedy) was killed several years ago, his widow held us together. Who's going to control your people?"
wikipedia.orgBecause most of Elliott's 8-year-old students were, like her, born and raised in a small town in Iowa, and were not exposed to black people outside of television, she felt that simply talking about racism would not allow her all-white class to fully comprehend racism's meaning and effects
wikipedia.orgJane Elliott is a recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education. She has been a guest lecturer at numerous colleges and universities.
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