The teacher conducted an exercise to demonstrate racism to her students by favoring those with brown eyes over those with blue eyes, replicating the mistreatment people of color often faced. She divided the class based on eye color, disrespecting and tormenting the blue-eyed students to illustrate what it can feel like to be judged for inherent attributes outside of one's control. The student felt the teacher effectively taught the class an important lesson about racism through this powerful reenactment of discriminatory behavior.