The interaction only strengthened Elliott's resolve. They all either smiled or laughed and nodded." "Not one of them reprimanded her for that or even corrected her. was killed, 'I don't know why you're doing that - I thought it was about time somebody shot that son of a bitch,' " she said. "She said, on the day after Martin Luther King Jr. One teacher ended up displaying the same bigotry Elliott had spent the morning trying to fight. At her lunch break that day in the teacher's lounge, she told her colleagues about the exercise. "We are repeating the blue-eyed/brown-eyed exercise on a daily basis."Īmerica Reckons With Racial Injustice 'I See These Conversations As Protective': Talking With Kids About RaceĮlliott started to see her own white privilege, even her own ignorance. "It's happening every day in this country, right now," she said in an interview with Morning Edition. The May 25 killing of George Floyd set off weeks of nationwide protests over the police abuse and racism against black people, plunging the U.S. More than 50 years after she first tried that exercise in her classroom, Elliott, now 87, said she sees much more work left to do to change racist attitudes. Brown-eyed people, she told the students, are smarter, more civilized and better than blue-eyed people. She told them that people with brown eyes were superior to those with blue eyes, for reasons she made up. Elliott split her students into two groups, based on eye color. She wanted them to understand what discrimination felt like. in 1968 prompted educator Jane Elliott to create the now-famous "blue eyes/brown eyes exercise."Īs 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. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images “We’ll know then where we are and we’ll be pushing to try to get him back for Down Royal.Jane Elliott, an educator and anti-racism activist, first conducted her blue eyes/brown eyes exercise in her third-grade classroom in Iowa in 1968. “Jack has got a hairline fracture of an old fracture and he has to go back to the doctor on Tuesday week. “Davy is having an operation tomorrow (Tuesday),” the trainer said. “Unfortunately they will both be out for a number of weeks.”Both riders are used regularly by Gordon Elliott, who hopes Kennedy could return to action in time to ride at Down Royal’s high-profile two-day meeting at the end of the month. Jack Kennedy fractured his left collarbone. (Credit ATR) The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board’s senior medical officer Dr Jennifer Pugh posted on Twitter read: “Davy Russell sustained a neck injury and has a fracture of his C6 vertebrae. Kennedy has already recently took a fair bit of time off the track due a to a broken leg suffered t the Dublin Racing Festival at Leopardstown in February and just as he was coming back he is back on the sidelines after falling three flights from home when partnering Etincelle Lioterie in the opening Listed novice hurdle. Grand National and Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning jockey Russell was taken to hospital for precautionary X-rays on a suspected shoulder injury after a nasty fall aboard Doctor Duffy when crashing out at the first fence in the Munster National. Leading Irish trainer Gordon Elliott will be without his two first choice jockeys Davy Russell and Jack Kennedy with both of them suffering injuries over the last week and now facing some time off the track.īoth riders are said to be out for “a number of weeks” after suffering injuries at Limerick on Sunday and now Elliott will look to Keith Donoghue to fill in for the riders during their rehabilitation off the track.
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