Racism in America

1. Jessica Meadows
First Year Seminar 100
Dr. Harold Blanco
February 9th, 2015
An independent view on angry eyes
Angry eyes was a video representation of a popular psychology experiment, ‘Brown eyes
vs. blue eyes,” portraying what it feels like to be discriminated against and allowing individuals
to see the world from an opposite perspective. In the video, the group leader instructed those
with brown eyes to be cruel to those with blue eyes and was the main one being cruel to those
with a different eye color. She was attempted to show how people who are not white are treated
in the modern civilization, and while I do not agree with the extent she showed in terms of
cruelty it is foolish to not believe racism does not exist and is not present.
In the video, the instructor made one girl cry and asked if she was yeling or if it was
simply her tone, as she attempted to make the girl feel stupid and inadequate which she excelled
at. I do believe that there is racism still present however not to the extent portrayed, people are
generally although not entirely nice to others. In the modern generation there is such an
intermingling of races we have become desensitized and uncaring about ethnicity, however
people still stick to preconceived racial stereotypes although they are incorrect and wrong.
People are not generally rude or hurtful because of your skin tone, from my experience. As a
child growing up in an almost all African-American neighborhood I was told I could not play
with my friends due ti the color of my skin. White girls and black girls could not play together,
and I still do not understand why. Two four year old children did not see race, or color, we saw
best friends and playmates however adults perpetuating racism began to force feed hatred to their

2. children until they saw racial stereotypes and cruelty. This experiment was beneficial in showing
people the other half of the spectrum however was a slap in the face to those who are not racist,
or mean to others because of the color of their skin.