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Watch this woman unpick racism in one minute

Oonagh Keating. Updated August 24th, 2018

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The day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, third-grade teacher, Jane Elliot, conducted an experiment to demonstrate racism to her white pupils. It became known as the “Brown Eyes – Blue Eyes” experiment and is still used to show the unfairness and illogicality of bigotry. In this clip, she not only defines racism succinctly, but also nails why it can be eliminated – and she does it in one minute. Watch her in action.

https://twitter.com/wati_/status/1032214097767608321

Some of the key points include:

“We hate because we’re taught to hate. We hate because we’re ignorant.”

“There’s only one race on the face of the Earth and we’re all members of that race – the human race.”

“You’re not born a bigot, you have to learn to be a bigot. Anything you learn, you can unlearn.”

“Pigmentation in your skin has nothing to do with your intelligence or your worth as a human being, It’s time to get over that.”

It has been widely shared and viewed on the internet, gaining much praise and support.

https://twitter.com/ScottyTMJ/status/1032694892856782848

We can’t argue with that.