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Jane Elliot's Views On Racism
Racism is real. It is an important issue we need to address today. Jane Elliot's experiment, which attempted to prove that people are more racist than they think, was very intriguing. I believe that her aim in the video, to show whites how minorities felt being discriminated against, was a good one, but I didn't like the way she went about it. Nevertheless, this experiment does teach us something. It was startling to see how racist some of the participants in the video were. I thought that one particular white woman, who kept insisting that discrimination happened to her just as much as it happened to black people, completely missed the point of the exercise. By refusing to listen to minorities experiences in these matters, we become part
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