You must have an enemy

[BigV]

How about having your heart broken for a little bit today?

Here ya go.



From this story on NPR.ORG today. Very, very worthy.

As a school teacher in the small town of Riceville, Iowa, Elliott first conducted the anti-racism experiment on her all-white third-grade classroom, the day after the civil rights leader was killed.

She wanted them to understand what discrimination felt like. Elliott split her students into two groups, based on eye color. She told them that people with brown eyes were superior to those with blue eyes, for reasons she made up. Brown-eyed people, she told the students, are smarter, more civilized and better than blue-eyed people.

She says we're repeating this blue-eyed/brown-eyed experiment every day.

[xoxoxoBruce]

That experiment is old, I first read about it at least a dozen years ago. Of course it's not an experiment any more, now it's an excellent teaching tool.