Please address the following in your reflection, write question, then answer question in narrative form.
What did you learn?
Did any part of the film surprise you?
Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
How was the exercise that Elliott designed a response to the children’s question, “Why would anyone want to murder Martin Luther King Jr?”
What did the children’s body language indicate about the impact of discrimination?
How did the negative and positive labels placed on a group become self-fulfilling prophecies?
Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children.
What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
Looking at the Structures that Nurture Bias
How did Elliott’s discrimination create no-win situations for those placed in the inferior group
How did she selectively interpret behavior to confirm the stereotypes she had assigned?
Closing reflection
How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, “Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes”?