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First of all, I would like to say that the video was very enlightening and also a reminder that we have so far to go in this world to address race issues in an effort to put an end to racism.
Several years ago I viewed the video of Jane Elliot’s experiment with her third graders and I was amazed how when giving power and superiority to a certain set of students caused them to turn on those who were their close friends only moments earlier. I think in contrast to the video we are discussing it was more understandable because children are normally easier to manipulate than adults are.
The video personally affected me in a way that it made me realize that I as a black person
I tend to not always recognize racism for what it is because it is so
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I feel that racism can be looked at as a form of bullying because those who have power are imposing their will on those with less power. The fact that at some point in the experiment Jane Elliot laid out the expectations of what she was hoping to accomplish, she still could not get some of the blue eyes to understand how racism works and how it hurts. One person went on to say that he was Native American but he passes for white, her response was black people cannot pass for white, they don’t have that privilege. Just sitting here, bought back an experience I had earlier this year in a diversity seminar that was held on my job. We had a motivational speaker, a black man, Adolph Brown, come to our job to speak about diversity in the work place. This was supposed to have been a 3 session workshop but after the first session, he was not bought back. During his presentation, he began to speak about institutional racism
and asked for audience participation. He posed a question to a white elderly woman, one of our more tenured employees, and she was obviously uncomfortable as her face turned bright red.
Other people of different racial backgrounds participated, some uncomfortable some not. It
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Standardized testing has also been considered a form of racism, because it is believed to be biased in favor of people from particular cultural backgrounds. In general, an educator’s personal thoughts and ideas about racism and cultural differences can effect education because they are essentially the mode of delivery to what is taught in the classroom.
What I learned from the video is that it seems that racism seems to be non-existent to people who are not victims of racism. It was amazing to me how some of the blue eyed people could not come to grips with the fact that the whole workshop was an experiment to bring about self-awareness of how or if we view ourselves as racist. Some of the people could not fathom there being a positive outcome of the whole experience. I guess that is a fact of life, some people don’t want to see themselves for who they are.
There are several things that I take away from this video. One was that because racism is something that was taught over hundreds of years, it is deeply embedded and it actually does take something as extreme as Jane Elliot’s experiment to bring awareness to the problem today. I also take away the fact that some people live in a box and until you pull them out of the box
Racism did not start with just one person nor one truth. Neither will racism end with one person or truth. I believe it takes a contribution of people, the American nation, to commit willingly. We need to listen and learn, talk and share, and understand the truths that each individual owns. Spike Lee's movie comes across as a brilliant and powerful illustration of how America's condescending behavior impairs our racial society.
It sometimes give “the perception of ‘token appointments’ [of individuals] who could not be hired or promoted on performance ability alone” (Von Bergen, Soper, & Foster, 2002, p. 242). It can also create more discrimination in the form of reverse discrimination where those formerly believed to be discriminators are now unfairly victimized because of the color of their skin. Diversity training can sometimes be demoralizing and reinforces stereotypes when trainers resort to emphasizing differences that elicits anger and divisiveness (Von Bergen, Soper, & Foster, 2002, p. 245). Businesses can find their legal liabilities have increased when “unorthodox training techniques invade employee privacy and humiliate individuals in front of their co-workers” (Von Bergen, Soper, & Foster, 2002). According to Choi’s research “individuals in diverse groups tend to fell less safe and to trust each other less. Lower trust is more likely to lead to higher conflicts within groups” (Choi, 2008, p.
Racism can be traced back many years, and despite what many believe, it is still a prominent issue. Racism is when people discriminate others because of the color of their skin. Some people are racist on purpose, but there are times when they do it subconsciously. Everything in this world has a beginning, and racism started with the belief that people of color were inferior to those that weren’t. This belief spread throughout America as it was passed down from generation to generation. Racism seems to be a characteristic of being human. When we are introduced to a new face our mind automatically categorizes people based off of their physical appearance. When people don’t meet certain standards set by others, there becomes a divide between them
Racism is a type of prejudice, which is when someone has a negative attitude towards members in a certain social group. Discrimination is when people get treated differently, because of the prejudice people have towards that particular social group. People tend to form social groupings based on their race, sex, and age. In-groups are a type of social group which a person identifies themselves as being a member of, while out-groups are a type of social group which a person does not identify themselves as being a member of. Jane Elliott is an anti-racism activist and an educator who is known for her “Blue-Eyes, Brown-Eyes” experiment (Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes Brown Eyes Exercise, 2006). In her experiment, she wanted to demonstrate the idea of discrimination against minorities. She used eye color, specifically brown and blue eyes, instead of skin color, and made brown-eyed people superior to blue-eyed people. She did this experiment the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., in order for her white students to know what it felt like to walk in the shoes of her black students.
Internalized racism will explore the reasons why some minority groups do not like their ethnicity;
In my recording, I talked about how I grew up fairly isolated from other races. I had some exposure in elementary school, but I went to a predominately white Catholic high school, I was a member at a predominately white dance studio where I spent the majority of my time after school, my neighborhood was mostly white, my family is predominately white, my friends are predominately white, as well as my parent’s friends. Race was not something that was discussed when I was growing up and I struggled to answer the questions in the recording regarding when my first experience noticing a different race was, or when my first experience discussing race was. I was also very naïve about my own White privilege, and while at first I did feel some guilty about it, I realize now that this is the journey a lot of White people must take in order to develop their racial identity. Patti DeRosa (2001) explain this in a way that really made sense to me when she wrote, “The privileges of this status remain invisible because we are seen as the norm, we are held to be the standard, we are affirmed, and our identity and experience is reflected back to us in a myriad of ways.” (pg. 6). Becoming aware of this privilege is half the battle on the road to understanding what it means to be White in our
During many one on one conversation with the store manager he told me diversity was not celebrated in the industry today, but it would one day, and he wanted me to be prepared for change that was
Once I worked for a small manufacturing firm that employed an unusually diverse mix of genders and minorities for a Midwestern company. Just before my employment, a consulting management firm’s contract had recently completed to address infighting among departments. The president of the company, who I will call Carol, had taken over leadership when her father retired. She had an undergraduate degree in human resources and lifetime exposure to running the business. Carol cared about the well-being of employees, although her management skills were questionable at times. Carol was under age forty, married with young children, attractive and athletic, and she dressed in a casual way neither hiding nor flaunting her sexuality.
Dr. Derrick L. Campbell of The Saving Empire – Diversity Training Presentation. – Dr. Campbell gave a presentation on the professional development training process that will involve a select group of employees. The goal is to assist the group in developing and implementing strategies so that they can train other district employees in overcoming
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Working in an oppressed work environment is challenging not only subjective to oppression by the dominant white workers but witnessed co-workers being victimized. These incidents happened in a health care environment. The staff complement consists of twelve nurses including one Aboriginal native nurse, one black nurse myself, and one male French Canadian nurse. A white female manager completes the complement. The manager who has worked for this heath care for twenty years brought the facility ways how to manage staff and coordinate the facility. One of my manager’s mandates is to have a diverse staff complement.
Racism is a worldwide problem that will never be eradicated and there are no simple solutions to it.
What type of training and exercises would you put in place to help all employees understand the differences of backgrounds, sexes, and races/ethnicities in the workplace?
As it said in the video the American dream is like quicksand the harder you fight the more buried you get in the sand. Meaning that the harder you go into your dream it gets harder. And how we put Lincoln on the only colored coin because he was a stepping stone for change in so many American dreams. And how schools have more barricades then books and are more worried about how many undocumented kids are in the school instead of books. This really opens up your eyes because it's showing how the dreams of different races is harder because of where they come from,background and how much money they have in there pocket. Really makes their dream harder compared to others in the United States we all are on different levels when it comes to trying to get to are American dream. When the poetry slam talks about the Declaration of Independance is dependant on race and color but we all breath the same air. Meaning that the founding fathers made the dream for americans but people from other countries want the same dream but know one will help them get there American
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