Video Thursday: Blue Eyes and Brown Eyes

An old but good video this week, featuring a teacher who split classes—here a group of corrections officers being trained—into brown eyes and blue eyes and used that as the basis for (temporary) discrimination:

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Empathy—putting yourself in someone else’s shoes—can make a huge difference in personal awareness of discrimination and racism, but as a society we’re still far from wiping out the necessity of exercises like these.