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jane elliot - the angry eye [running time 51:23]

The two-parter version is the one that I see reblogged a bunch, but I watched those and this 50-minute one and I think this version is better.  In it, Elliot has more dialogue with the students of colour/brown eyes, and a lot of the statements that were just sort of left hanging in the two-parter are more fleshed out and articulated.

After watching both versions, I was pretty uncomfortable with how the two-part version is edited to re-centre whiteness and leave out the comments and participation of the students of colour.

gonna reblog this version. powerful and really worth watching.

also pasting in the quoted section that was going around with the other edit of this video i saw:

“You don’t come back in here until you’ve apologized to every person in this room, Because you just exercised a freedom that none of these people of color have. When these people of color get tired of racism, they can’t just walk out, because there’s no place in this country where they aren’t going to be exposed to racism. They can’t even stay in their own homes and not be exposed to racism if they turn on their television. But you, as a white female, when you get tired of being judged and treated unfairly on the basis of your eye color, you can walk out that door, and you know it won’t happen out there. You exercised a freedom they don’t have. If you’re going to be in here you’re going to apologize to every person of color in this room. And do it now.”

“I’m sorry there’s racism in this country—

“BULLSHIT! No, you’re not going to say ‘I’m sorry there’s racism.’ You’re going to apologize for what YOU just did.”

“I will not apologize because it’s not a matter of race always—”

“OUT.”

“Some of these people are going to leave here very angry - because they choose to be angry.”