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his weekend I had the privilege to watch the video, brown eyes blue eyes by Jane Elliot it was up loaded to You Tube, August 12, 2015. This video gave me a better insight on how whites see the world.
They are oblivious to the systematic racism within this society because they are the privilege group.
They had difficulties dealing with two hours of the type of racism that other groups in this society go through every day.After seeing this video, I see why we have a higher rate of high blood pleasure and many other diseases. Being black and under attack has become the norm for us. Seeing this video makes me proud to be black, we are resilient people.Before the video I wandered how they perceived themselves and others.
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The affluent schools get the most tax dollars, making them more equipped with the best teachers, technology and positive climate. The schools in the poverty areas get the opposite. They get second hand books and teachers no other schools want making it a negative environment to learn in. This environment makes it difficult for the students to learn and pushes the students out of school (dropout). By the time children graduate, the few are not employable, because they didn’t get quality education. The affluent students (whites) get the better jobs and better opportunities.This is institutionalized discrimination.Many believe that we live in a class system, in reality, it is just another word for caste system. If mother has a child in poverty, more than likely the child will remain in poverty making the next generation even more impoverish. if mother is a blue collar

Brown Eyes Blue Eyes Experiment child will be blue collar, middle class. When the mother is an executive most likely the child will be the owner of the corporation.
Bluey left the room. She was uncomfortable with her feelings of insecurity and disagreed with what the teacher was saying. I called this avoidance because she refuses to finish the


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