The Angry Eye experiment made the author anxious because it showed how easily people can become racist or ignorant, even discriminating against others of their own race based on arbitrary characteristics like eye color. The author started to feel uncomfortable as the experiment progressed and one girl began crying after being accosted. This made the author realize that racial minorities experience this type of aggression every day, even if it is not always overt. The author is now reevaluating their own views and stereotypes about people of color.

1. Story Moosa
Harold Blanco
FYS Critical Thinking
28 September 2014
The Angry Eye Response
The Angry Eye made me anxious in a good way. At first, I thought that it wasn’t the most
perfect experiment, and how could you make white people discriminate again other white people
because of their eye color. I didn’t realize how easily everyone can turn into a racist or just an
ignorant person. When the first girl started crying when she was accosted for not having a pen or
paper, I started to become uncomfortable, because I understood how unrelenting Jane Elliot had
become. I then realized that Hispanics, African Americans, Latinos, and Asian people have and
do experience this type of aggression every day, even though it not always vocal racism. For me,
I am now reevaluating how I see People of Color. Do I just say that we are all the same and
believe in that wholeheartedly or do I still hold on to some stereotypes that lead me to have
misconceptions about people of other races.