Movie Night: The Essential Blue Eyed

Over the past 20 years, Jane Elliot, a former teacher in the Midwest USA, has committed herself to leading a fight against prejudice, ignorance and racism in society. She continues to practice the same philosophy which she begun with her school class after Martin Luther King Jr's death in 1968. Today her audience is much broader including teachers, students, firemen and even the complete staff of a bank. In her workshops, she divides people on the basis of two arbitrary physical properties - Blue or Brown Eyes. She declares the latter to be better and more intelligent and grants them privileges, privileges she denies to the blue eyed, deemed to be worse, less intelligent and lower qualified.