Hidden American secret revealed: Do something; I want every white person, every person in this room who considers themself a member of the white race, to stand right now. Right now. Every person in this room considers themself a member of the white race. Now remain standing. Now, remain standing. Now, will every person in this room who considers themself a member of the black race please stand? Up, up, up. And remain standing. Now, the brown race. Anybody who considers themself a member of the brown race, now the yellow race, now the red race, now will ever look around you people. Practically everybody’s standing now, well every person in this room who considers themself a member of the human race: please sit down! Now, people,
you are all members of the same race, the human race, which started with black women between 300, 000,
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this doesn’t interrupt me; I don’t have much time. No, white folks, you don’t like it, but all you are is faded blacks; that’s the way it is for every one of you. If you take your trace, your DNA back far enough, you’re going to find that some of your DNA came from Africa because we all have the same ancestor back there, every single one of us. And those of you who think you don’t have are obviously from outer space. Now, that means that every one of us is a thirtieth to fiftieth cousin to every other person in this room. So I want you to turn to the person on your left or your right or behind her, in front of you, stick out your hand and say ‘hi, cousin
.’ Now, now. Well, every person in this room who considers themself a member of opaqueness like myself, a biracial person, stand don’t you stand the
people. We have to get rid of the language of racism; words matter. You have to be careful how you use them, and you have to refuse to tolerate these ugly words being used in your presence. Now, make no mistake. Think about this. I’ve been described as a teacher. I’m not a teacher. Teachers dispense facts and figures so that they can get their kids ready for the end-of-school testing. I’ve been called a trainer. You train dogs and horses and members of the military, yet I don’t train people; I’m an educator. The word educator, I mean I don’t want to be interrupted anymore. People, the word educator comes from the root duck deuce, which
means lead, and the prefix e, which means out. The suffix ATE means the act of, and the suffix or which means one who does an educator is engaged in the act of leading people out of ignorance in this country. We spend a lot of money on what we call Education. It isn’t Education is indoctrination; it takes us 13 years to teach a student; you have to educate a student to be ignorant about race and to support ideas that make this a better country; this is a word for this in my vernacular since I was raised on a farm-is bullshit. I was hoping you wouldn’t write that down, people; I recognize it when I see it, and that’s what we’re living with right now.
If we weren’t in an if we were in a post-racial society, dinosaurs like Trump would not be in the White House. He got elected because white people resented having a black man in the White House for eight years. It’s time to face the truth and say the truth, and it’s time for women, all women and all people of color to stop playing defense and defending what they are and go on the offense. We were here first. We don’t have to apologize for what we are or for what we were here first. We don’t have to apologize for what we are or for what we do now. I know some of you are thinking, boy, this work, is she a bitch? Yes, I am doing it now. I know some of you are thinking, boy, this look like a bitch. Yes, I am
now. How many of you women have been called the God? Prepared to read the B-word and stabilize now. How many of you women have been called the B-word color? Please don’t be weird. Look around, fellas; everybody’s heard it come Up the B-word; today, called the God, prepared to read the device category sex and Bulls, that’s even a strange thing, she’s getting on her Sesame Street sticks, hello. And number tells me the game team is Monday and day don’t get mad, there are going to be called those guys workman, and I won’t lie away old man, okay? I can watch that for being in total control, honey, and when women are seen in control, the men around them call it the B-word.
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You need to say you’re right, darling, I am, and then you need to whip out your little arena Bob at fruit knife. Now, don’t do that because some of these boys are scared to death. Now, some of you’re thinking she doesn’t like men. Oh god, do I like men? Find me one, please, please. Some of my best friends are men. I was married to one for 59 years, and when I married him, he looked just like Marlon Brando; he really did. When he died, he looked like Tella Savalas lived with me for 59 years. What’s your next question?
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I mean, you guys all know that you say, oh, I’m 400. Yo, you see, oh, I’m already cutting out questions. Okay, let’s talk about privilege, and you want to talk about privilege, the President, and this goes to you, Jane, first. How did you first become aware? This is a reflective question: how did you first become aware this is a reflective question how did you come to How did You first become aware of your privilege? And how did you first become aware that others had more privilege than you? And I’m going to ask the same of you also. So you go first. I never thought of it as white privilege. If you do the right thing, people will do the right thing where you’re concerned.
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And because I’m white, they did. And they were wrong. Because I’ve been doing the wrong thing for about 33 years, I did the wrong thing. I thought I was all right. And then I did the blue-eyed, brown-eyed exercise. And I watched a brilliant little blue-eyed white girl turn into a frightened, intimidated, unable-to-learn child in the space of 15 minutes because I accused her of not being smart enough. After all, she had the wrong color eyes. I watched four dyslexic brown-eyed girls read words they had never been able to read and spell words they had never been able to spell because nobody had ever told them that they could learn to read or spell. But on the day they had brown eyes, it was obvious that the world was theirs.
They could do anything. I found out about expectations that day. And I realized that what we have done, what we white folks have done in this country, ever since we got here, is treat people positively or negatively, not on the basis of the color of their skin, but on the basis of our ignorance about skin color, where it comes from and what it causes. This is not about skin color. This is about ignorance. And the answer to ignorance is Education. It is not indoctrination. It is not schooling. It is not training. It is Education. But you have to have teachers who know better if they’re going to teach better. And teachers can only teach better if they teach what they know.
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Unfortunately for all of us, we’ve all been led down the same ugly path of thinking that it’s all right to claim privilege when what we should be claiming is ignorance. We’ve got the wrong word here, people. This problem is white ignorance. And white people are running the show. Now, you’re going to think she’s a traitor to her race. I’m not a traitor to the human race, and that’s the only race I see. Make no mistake about that. And as long as we start acting, as long as we keep on acting as though there are several races, we can have panels like this at which we discuss white privilege instead of discussing white ignorance and deciding to do something about it. We need to start really furnishing Education in these schools instead of furnishing indoctrination.
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Did that answer your question? Yes, partially. All right. The rest of the question is, how did you become aware of your privilege or of others having more privilege than you? You’re talking about privilege. I watched my students. It was watching the students. And I realized, watching them, that they were exhibiting the behaviors that they were copying from me. They acted the, hey, my little brown-eyed students; the day they were on the top in that exercise became me. And it made me sick to my stomach, and it does to this day. I hate high school. I hate to remember that day because I watched my brown-eyed children, who just loved one another, in my classroom. We really did.
And on that day, I found out that I didn’t want to be tolerated because, in that classroom, my kids tolerated me. After all, I’m blue-eyed. The first thing that was said after I told the kids that blue-eyed people aren’t as smart as brown-eyed people, a little brown-eyed child in the front row, Debbie Hughes, looked up at me and said, ‘How come you’re the teacher here if you got them blue eyes?’ I got a real experience that day and a real educational experience, people. I found out how I look to people of color, and I have spent the last 50 years trying not to look like that and trying to encourage others to stop it. I’ll tell you another thing. Do I have a few more minutes here?
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My father, at the age of 60, watched the film that the CBC made in my classroom the second year I did the exercise. They sent me a copy of it, and I showed it to my father and my mother. My father was 60 years old, the most honest man, the most moral man I’ve ever known. I showed him that film. When it was over, he stood up, and in his bib overalls and his blue chambray shirt, rolled up to the elbows, he reached into his back pocket, took out his red handkerchief, and with tears in his eyes, he blew his nose and said, ‘I wish somebody had taught me that when I was nine years old. You can criticize what I do until the cows come home. And psychologists do until they get smart.
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I don’t listen anymore because my father said, ‘I wish somebody had taught me that when I was nine years old.’ If somebody had taught my father that when he was nine years old, we would never have had to listen to some of the ridiculous racist remarks that he made. And he never made them again after he watched that film. Don’t tell me that you can’t change people. Don’t tell me that you’re too old to change. There isn’t a person in this room who is too old to change. White folks, you gotta change.’ Because within 30 years, you will be a numerical minority in the United States of America. And you had better pray to whoever you pray to or for that people of color are not going to get even with us and treat us the way we have treated them.
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If you can’t think of any other reason for treating people like equal human beings, think of that one. Because what you do today is creating the future. I don’t think you want the kind of future that you have provided for people in the present. I may be mistaken. You may not know what’s going on. You know what’s going on. And if I asked you, will every white person in this room who wants to be treated the way we have treated people of color in this country if you’d like to be treated that way, all you white folks, if you want that for the rest of your life, please stand? Did you understand the directions? If you’re white and you think blacks have got us so good in this country, and you want to be treated the way they have been for the rest of your life, stand up.
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You know why you aren’t standing. You know it isn’t lovely, and you know it’s happening, and you know you don’t want it to happen to you. I want to know why you’re so willing to allow it for others in this post-racial society. Can I have a question? Okay, so we’re talking about privilege and how you first became aware that others had more privilege than you and how you might have been aware that you had more privilege than others. Okay, first of all, it’s important to emphasize the notion of privilege, but privilege, as Jane pointed out, is a very important part of the history of the world. How long do you think it’s been going on? How long do you think it’s been going on? How long do you think it’s been going on?
Forever? You’re wrong. 500 years. During the Spanish Inquisition, the people who were running the Spanish Inquisition and killing people because of their religion found out that they killed a whole lot of people who had the right religion. They couldn’t tell what their religion was by looking at them. So they decided they had to find another way to kill and enslave and or enslave. So they set upon skin color. People, it’s only 500 years old. Now think of that. It’s only 500 years old. Nobody was born a racist. There is no gene for bigotry. You were not born a racist. You have to be taught to be a racist, and you have to be carefully, carefully taught.
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And if you haven’t seen that musical in which the last song is, you have to be taught to be afraid of people whose skin is a different shade, of people whose eyes are differently made. You have to be carefully taught. South Pacific. Yes, South Pacific. You have to be taught before it’s too late, before You are six or seven or eight to hate all the people your relatives hate. You have to be carefully taught. And that’s what we have to do in this country to keep this racism alive. If we want racism to stop, we have to stop teaching racism. In our homes, in our churches, people, Jesus did not look like the little Pillsbury Doughboy.
And God is not an old white man with a long gray beard who looks like Charlton Heston playing Moses. And Mary did not have pale skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes. Get over it! And do it now. You can make a difference if you choose to, you young people. How many of you have parents or mothers who are really tired of sending Christmas cards? I’ll tell you how to solve that problem. Go down to the store and buy a box of Christmas cards with the Holy Family picture on it. Take it home, and color it right. When your mother sends those out this year, she’ll never get another Christmas card for most of those people. People, we have to absolutely refuse to tolerate the intolerable. Ellen Giselle said you must not tolerate the intolerable.
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And if it’s intolerable for you, my cousins, then by the gods of war, it’s intolerable for me, and I will not tolerate it. This has gone on long enough. This has gone on long enough. And we have gone along to get along long enough. We need to put a stop to it. And you can. Educators can. Educators can change this. If I can, you can. Get busy. But first, first, first. Well, this is a question that fits right with what you’re saying. How can we talk about race and privilege with openness and inclusiveness in a way that prevents people from shutting down? People can shut down or not. That’s up to them. OK.
Let me tell you something. I am not responsible for how you respond to me. You got it? I flat-out don’t care. If you learn something in here this evening from this woman, who will, who has forgotten more than I’ll ever know about racism, and what little I know, if you decide to learn something in here tonight, you’ll learn something. If you decide to be mad, you’ll be mad. Go ahead. I don’t care. That’s your problem, not mine. I am not responsible for how you feel. I am responsible for what I say. I’m responsible for what I do. You’re responsible for your response to it. Be responsible for your responses. I’m not responsible for you. OK. Let’s, I want to hear what Angela has to say about this.
Because, well, I totally agree with Jane. OK. How can I not? Accept that. But, but. As someone who has spent many, many years teaching university students, teaching graduate students, I, I’ve, I’ve, I’ve learned that it’s, it makes no sense for me to tell my students what it is I think they ought to know. They might learn enough to write a good paper, and then they’ll move on, moving in another direction. So, teaching really is about helping people to ask the right questions. To ask the right questions. And to be able to conclude that there is something really terribly wrong with the way racism has shaped the history of this planet. Education is about unleashing the imagination. What teachers, unfortunately, most often do is shut down the imagination. And to prevent people from exploring the world in their ways. And so I think that certainly, to this group. So, who’s first? Who’s first? Oh, I’m first? Turn off your television.
Pick up a book. Go out of your way to meet somebody you would never have wanted to meet before, like, look at that person as a cousin and say, ‘I want to know what I can do to make my life less ugly where you’re concerned.’ And never, white people, walk up to the nearest black person and say, ‘What’s it like to be black?’ And never, when I come to speak to your school, or your college, or your university, never say to me, ‘I think we should ignore differences and talk about similarities. Similarities are more important than differences.’ And never, let me hear you say when I see people, I don’t see people as black, or brown, or red, or yellow.
And how about this one from a teacher? ‘I don’t care whether you’re black, brown, red, yellow, or green with purple polka dots; I’m going to treat you all alike.’ How many of you have heard that one out of a teacher? How many of you have ever seen people who are green with purple polka dots? Well, you see, when a teacher lumps all those people in with those who are green with purple polka dots, she’s saying you’re all like aliens from another planet. She never says white in there. She never says ‘white’ because it’s all right to see ‘white’. How many of you have had a person stand up when you were speaking and say, ‘I just look for the person’s heart’?
People, the next time somebody says that to you, you need to say, if you can see my heart from where you are, you should go down to the local hospital and volunteer to be their x-ray machine. You see, this whole thing is ridiculous. To treat people positively or negatively on the basis of your ignorance about skin color is ridiculous. Now, here’s something else you can do. Go to my website. A teacher, a teacher, a real educator, quite frankly, gave me a list of commitments to combat racism. Go to my website, Jane Elliott. Com, take that list, download it, go through it, check ‘yes’ for those that you have done, check ‘no’ for those that you haven’t done, circle one that you check ‘no,’ and do it for a month.
At the end of the month, please take out the paper and make notes on it as to how your life has changed as a result of doing that one thing. There are 18 things on that paper. Then, please read the list of typical statements that white folks make that think they aren’t racist. Check those that you would be inclined to say that you have heard. Then, read the clarifications of those statements and how they are being heard by the person to whom you’re saying them. If you do that, that will change your white awareness. And our problem is a white lack of awareness. Make no mistake about this. People of color know about racism. They recognize it when they hear it. And when you say to a person of color, I don’t see you black, you ought to have your tongue cut out first.
You can’t have, I can’t examine your heads, but people, if what you are saying is being perceived as racist, say something else. Perception is everything. If what you are saying is being perceived as racist, change your language. You can do that. If you choose to, you’d better choose to. You’d better choose to. There are 18 things on that list of commitments to combat racism. I challenge you to do three of them in the next three months. It’ll change people’s attitude toward you and your awareness of the world. Wow. Yes. Angela, call to action. What could they do concretely? Well, you know, I am a person who has always believed in the power of unity and united struggle.
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So I would say: find some organization, whether it’s a cultural organization or a political organization; figure out a way to become a part of a larger community, a community that is larger than yourself. But there are some things that individuals can do. And since you asked for three, that’s the first one: join an organization. The second one is, and this holds for white people as well as for people of color, whenever you hear a racist comment being offered, call them on it right there, wherever you are. That’s right. Don’t let it pass. And I would also like to say that it’s especially important for us to recognize the differences among different communities of color and to become aware of those struggles. For example, what can black people do to support the struggle to defend the immigrant rights movement? It is absolutely racist. It is absolutely racist to assume that citizenship is equivalent to documents. You can determine a person’s commitment based on a piece of paper that they have or don’t have. And especially now, during this period, we all have to stand up in support of undocumented immigrants.
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OK, guys, I’m going to say it from this little corner right over here. Well, this has been opening up like, I can tell you that it is, it is high time that, you know, the whole idea of racism, especially in the Western countries and in this context in the USA, that, what is it that the whites, OK, good, I also stand corrected there that they are not safe. They need to see, even as Jen Elliott has put it, that, you see, we are all the ancestry of the Africans. Like, we trace our ancestry to Africa. Now, it is very hard for some people to be able to see that one simply because of the skin complexions. And some people have also developed self-hatred simply because they don’t know or see themselves as, you know, light-skinned, light-skinned.
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And therefore, they see themselves as inferior. And the whole thing turns out to be a stigma and low self-esteem about themselves, something that it’s not to be. So, I find this very motivational and, you know, encouraging me to embrace the whole aspect of humanity, moving forward as one, knowing that we are not any other, you know, citizens in this particular world. We are the same class of citizens, if I were to use that particular expression, meaning that if we are on this particular planet, we found ourselves here, then to some extent, we are one or maybe connected to some extent. But this particular thing of racial, you know, screen discrimination, somebody looks lighter than the other, so they’re more intelligent than the one who is maybe dark or, you know, of colors.
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It doesn’t have to be; it has to be a thing of the past. And even as she has said, now, in two, two, three, four decades, America is going to have, that is an example, a paradigm shift. The blacks are going to, you know, be the majority, and the whites are going to be the minority whites. And how the whites currently are treating the blacks, I don’t think that the blacks are going to give back the same, you know, I think maybe there’s got to be something. So like, are they going to need to tolerate this? Even as she has put it, it’s just a prediction. We’re not sure yet. But they, to be able to be tolerated, a teacher whose kids are tolerating her, you know, when it hit her that she needed to change the course of her life on how she addresses these particular students of color and how they tolerated her, and yet, from this other side, she couldn’t even be able to master that. So, it is high time that people embrace this reality and move forward as humanity. That is for now.
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