Jane Elliot conducted an exercise with her class where she divided students into two groups based on eye color and treated one group as superior to the other to demonstrate the experience of being a minority. The author reacted positively to the exercise, believing it effectively showed privileged white students what it feels like to be discriminated against. The exercise illustrated that minorities cannot escape discrimination as easily as the blue-eyed students who could leave the classroom. The author argues the exercise provides valuable perspective about racism and might reduce prejudice if more people participated in it.