Here it is. Type this into your search bar and it's the second thing down. It's about a ten minute long video
Here's my reflection on the video and an article we read
After watching the video of these kids and adults be so
vicious to each other I was troubled. I think that was the point. I identified
with the boy who said that he was so mean because the discriminatory
environment gave him an opportunity where “any pent up hostilities could come
up.” There’s suddenly a reason to relieve yourself of all the feelings you have
towards someone, it’s suddenly okay to do this. It made me queasy. She told the
kids that “Prejudice and discrimination are things that people build with in
their minds,” and I agree but that doesn’t make them go away. Don’t we need
discrimination to go away?
The
article we read was helpful in being a very realistic voice on the issue of
prejudice and discrimination. I know I’m not going to be a bad teacher if I
have some biases but I still want to be aware of them. One of the main things
is taking responsibility for myself and my reactions, thoughts, and actions to
others. How do you take critique and still have the confidence to keep going as
a teacher? In the article Paul Gorski talked about “celebrating yourself as a total
person.” I can realize that the time spent understanding myself will help me to
relate and understand others and make me a better teacher. I don’t know if I
could do this exercise, I’d probably be the one to crack and not be able to
play along with the experiment. It’s too hard to see people go at it that way.
But could I do it for these kids? Would showing them this video be enough? I
think it is impossible to not have biases as a human being but prejudice can be
taken out of the picture. Someday it really won’t matter what skin color we
are. I hope. Am I saying this because I’m white? I feel something from these
videos from these articles, it’s wrong and discriminating should never feel
right. The problem now is being able to reach beyond myself and tell people.
That’s the hardest part, that’s what Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Junior,
Gandhi and so many more have done, we need action. Can I do it? All the words are there.
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