This is a special week. Does anybody know what it is? National Brotherhood.
National Brotherhood Week. What's brotherhood? Treat everyone as though he was your brother. And is there anyone in this United States that we do not treat as our brothers? Yes.
Who? The black people. The black people. Who else?
Indians. Absolutely the Indians. Many places in the United States.
How are black people treated? How are Indians treated? How are people who are of a different color than we are treated?
They don't get anything in this world. Why is that? Because they're a different color. You think you know how I would feel to be judged by the color of your skin? Do you think you do?
No, I don't think you'd know how that felt unless you had been through it, would you? It might be interesting to judge people today by the color of their skin. their eyes. Would you like to try this? Sounds like fun doesn't it?
Since I'm the teacher and I have blue eyes I think maybe the blue-eyed people should be on top the first day. I mean the blue-eyed people are the better people in this room. Oh yes they are.
Blue-eyed people are smarter than brown-eyed people. This is a fact. The brown-eyed people do not get to use the drinking fountain. You'll have to use the paper cups.
You brown-eyed people are not to play with the blue-eyed people on the playground. The brown-eyed people in this room today are going to wear collars so that we can tell. from a distance what color your eyes are. Ready, Laurie? Brown-eyed.
She's a brown-eyed. You'll begin to notice today that we spend a great deal of time waiting for brown-eyed people. I don't see the yardstick, do you?
It's so long, I think. Hey, you better keep that on your desk or the brown-eyed people get out of hand. Oh, you think if the brown-eyed people get out of hand that would be the thing to use.
Who goes first to lunch? The blue-eyed people. Blue-eyed people may go back for seconds. Brown-eyed people do not. Don't you know?
They're not smart. And it seemed like when we were down on the bottom, everything bad was happening to us. The way they treated you.
It felt like you didn't even want to try to do anything. It seemed like Mrs. Elliott was taking our best friends away from us. What happened at recess? Were two of you boys fighting?
Russell called me names and I hit him in the gut. What did he call you? Brown eyes.
They always call us that. Yeah, always call us that. They call us brown eyes.
What's wrong with being called brown eyes? It means that we're stupid. I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious. discriminating little third graders in a space of 15 minutes. Yesterday I told you that brown-eyed people aren't as good as blue-eyed people.
That wasn't true. I lied to you yesterday. The truth is... is that brown-eyed people are better than blue-eyed people. Russell, where are your glasses?
I forgot them. You forgot them? And what color are your eyes?
Blue. Susan Ginder has brown eyes. eyes she didn't forget her glasses Russell ring has blue eyes and what about his glasses he forgot them yesterday we were visiting and Greg said boy I like to hit my little sister as hard as I can that's fun what does that tell you about blue-eyed people the brown-eyed people may take off their collars and each of you may put your collar on a blue-eyed person The brown-eyed people get five extra minutes of recess.
You blue-eyed people are not allowed to be on the playground equipment. You blue-eyed people are not to play with the brown-eyed people. Brown-eyed people are better than blue-eyed people.
They are smarter than blue-eyed people. And if you don't believe it, look at Brian. I use Orton-Gillingham phonics. We use the card pack. The brown-eyed children were in the low class the first day, and it took them five and a half minutes to get through the card pack.
The second day, it took them two and a half minutes. The only thing that had changed was the fact that now they were superior people. You went faster than I've ever had anyone go through the card pack. Why couldn't you get them yesterday?
We had them come! You think the collars kept you? We just keep thinking about those collars! Oh, and you couldn't think as well with the collars on.
Four minutes and eighteen seconds. How long did it take you yesterday? Three minutes.
Three minutes. How long did it take you today? Four minutes and eighteen seconds.
What happened? Went down. What were you thinking of?
This. I hate today. I hate it.
I hate too. Because I'm blue-eyed. See, I am too. It's not funny, it's not fun, it's not pleasant.
This is a filthy... nasty word called discrimination. We're treating people a certain way because they are different from the rest of us. Is that fair? No.
Nothing fair about it. We didn't say this was going to be a fair day, did we? No. And it isn't. It's a horrid.
day. You ready? What did you people who are wearing blue collars now find out today? I know what they felt like yesterday.
I did too. How did they feel yesterday? Like a dog on a leash. Yeah. Like your channel now up in the prison.
Like you're shut up and you're throwing the key away. Should the color of some other person's eyes have anything to do with how you treat them? No.
All right then should the color of their skin? No. Should you judge people by the color of their skin? No. When you see a black man or an Indian or someone walking down the street, are you going to say, Ha ha, look at that!
silly looking thing no does it make any difference whether their skin is black or white no or yellow or red is that how you decide whether people are good or bad is that what makes people good or bad now you know a little bit more than you knew at the beginning of this week okay now are you back Does that feel better? Yeah! Does the color of the eyes that you have make any difference in the kind of person you are?
No!