A video shown to students documented a decades-long experiment by a woman who separated students by eye color to demonstrate the experience of discrimination. In the experiment, brown-eyed students were treated as privileged while blue-eyed students faced harsher treatment from the teacher and had to sit separately. The experience upset many of the students and led to discussion of racism in America and how to enact change.

1. Brownand Blue Eye Experiment
Thisassignmentrequiredustowatch a video.The videowasabouta womanwhodoesan experiment
withcollege students.She hasbeendoingexperimentslike thisfor30-40 years.The reasonshe does
these experimentsistomake a pointthat we shouldnotbe discriminatingagainstblackpeople.Her
experimentincludessome studentswithblue eyesandsome studentswithbrown.The browneyed
studentswere supposedtoact more privilegedthanthe blue eyedstudents.The blue eyedstudents
were forcedtosit in the middle of the classroomsurroundedbybrowneyedstudents.The teacher
wouldbe harsherto the blue eyedstudentsthanthe browneyed.Manyof the studentswere clearly
upsetandone girl endedupwalkingout.Afterwe watchedthe videowe hada discussion.We discussed
if there wasracism inAmerica(clearlythere is).We alsodiscussedif we couldmake achange.Overall
the discussionjumpedfromplace toplace andthere were manydifferenttheoriesandopinions
throughoutthe classroom.Ithinkthat the videothe ladymade gotthe pointacrossto her studentsbut
alsoto the people inmyclassroom.Racismiswrongand we shouldneverlookatsomeone differentjust
because of theircolor.