I just found this story about Jane Elliot's classroom discrimination experiment from 1968:
What an extraordinary documentary. Watch it. The whole thing.
Update: I just finished watching it and read an interview of her from 2002. It's sad to hear that her exercise is still as enlightening today as it was in 1968- but it's also inspiring to see that racism is a learned behavior and that you can "teach an old dog new tricks." The comments from the children, both in the classroom and years later, and the comments from people from her later trials were poignant. Watch it. The whole thing.
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