"Jane Elliott" is a former third-grade schoolteacher known for her "Blue eyes-Brown eyes" exercise she first held for her classroom the day after Martin Luther King was shot. When her local newspaper published compositions that the children wrote about the experience, the reactions (both positive and negative) formed the basis for her career as a public speaker against discrimination. Elliott's classroom exercise was filmed the third time she held it with her 1970 third-graders and became Eye of the Storm (1970 film)/Eye of the Storm. This in turn inspired a retrospective that reunited the 1970 class members with their teacher fifteen years later in A Class Divided. After leaving her school, Elliott became a diversity training/diversity trainer full time and has been on The Oprah Winfrey Show/Oprah and still holds the exercise and gives lectures about its effects all over the U.S. and in several locations overseas.

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This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are.

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What did you people who are wearing blue collars now find out today?

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I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

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What would you like to do with them?

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Let's take these collars off.

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White people in this country are tweaked. We are raised to believe a myth of White superiority. Malcolm X, in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, said that White people's "belief that they are 'superior' in some way is so deeply rooted that these things are in the national White subconscious.

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We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?

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Should the color of some other person's eyes have anything to do with how you treat them?

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