Jane Elliot is an anti-racism activist, “in the human rights revolution, if something isn 't done, and done in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is doomed”. This is a line from Martin Luther King, Jr’s last speech, “I’ve been to the mountain top”. Jane Elliot didn’t become ‘the’ Jane Elliot until Martin Luther King, Jr was assonated at the end of this exact speech. Jane took ownership of being the hope to her nation, which Martin was to her. She was a former third grade teacher where she conducted her famous exercise, “Blue-eyes-Brown eyes”. This was produced into a film called, “The eye of the Storm”, followed up fifteen years later
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She further explained “colorism” is the number one problem and racism doesn’t make sense because we all come from the same race. We have developed a society that is ‘prenatally raciest’, meaning they are born into it and die with it. Relating back to the historical stages of inclusion starting from the 1950’s people with disabilities weren’t accepted and though we have implemented integration into our school system we have spent so much time leaning that special needs aren’t equal members in our society, to unlearn such concept is difficult. That’s why inclusion is such an important concept to implement in classrooms today. Continuing, Jane isn’t a speaker who states an issue and doesn’t explain the root, a large portion of white dominance has come from how we have been taught to view the world. Jane showed us standard maps that we teach from and have posted in most elementary classrooms are geographically incorrect. It blew my mind to think that the developers of the map have altered the proportions to mainly white countries to be immensely larger. For example Greenland was blown up three times larger than the actual land mass and South America was actually two times larger than Greenland. When Jane pulled out the “Peter-projection” map I
She further explained “colorism” is the number one problem and racism doesn’t make sense because we all come from the same race. We have developed a society that is ‘prenatally raciest’, meaning they are born into it and die with it. Relating back to the historical stages of inclusion starting from the 1950’s people with disabilities weren’t accepted and though we have implemented integration into our school system we have spent so much time leaning that special needs aren’t equal members in our society, to unlearn such concept is difficult. That’s why inclusion is such an important concept to implement in classrooms today. Continuing, Jane isn’t a speaker who states an issue and doesn’t explain the root, a large portion of white dominance has come from how we have been taught to view the world. Jane showed us standard maps that we teach from and have posted in most elementary classrooms are geographically incorrect. It blew my mind to think that the developers of the map have altered the proportions to mainly white countries to be immensely larger. For example Greenland was blown up three times larger than the actual land mass and South America was actually two times larger than Greenland. When Jane pulled out the “Peter-projection” map I