Blue Eyed

This movie was a real eye opener. There is a woman like Hillary Clinton who is running a sort of class that shows the amount of racism still present in today’s culture. She takes all of the blue-eyed people and treats them how blacks are treated today. She takes the brown-eyed people and teaches them to behave the way whites behave towards blacks today. She makes the people with blue eyes sit on the floor and the brown-eyed people get to sit in chairs. She then gives each group an “IQ� test. She tells the brown-eyed people the answers. She doesn’t tell any of the blue eyed any answers. She does this to show how culturally biased standardized tests can be.

I really found this interesting because the whole time I was watching the movie I was thinking,� I have blue eyes, that could be me.� I thought it was amazing. The people on the TV were so impacted that grown men and women began to cry. They soon began to realize that they too had been discriminating against African Americans.

Some of the African Americans told stories of the persecutions. They talked about how their children feel about being black. I thought this was very interesting because I never realized that these children would still feel persecution even today. I really liked this movie because you really had to wonder if you were causing some of the pain that African Americans experienced. I really thought about it and realized that I too had probably caused some sort of pain, even if I hadn’t realized it.

I am glad that I watched this movie so that I can be more fully aware of the pain I may cause people on a daily basis. When the activity was over the people talked about how much this activity was going to change the way they felt and acted. Most of these people were like me and had never realized that they ever caused anyone any type of pain.

I would definitely recommend that all teachers do a similar activity in their classroom. The benefits that come from this experience far outweigh the possible repercussion from doing it.