#UnfairAndLovely

For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to be pretty. What “pretty” meant was a mystery to me. In some ways it still remains a mystery to me. In the eyes of many African and Asian girls, “pretty” entails Eurocentric features: lighter pigmentation, lighter eye colour, a narrow nose—everything that has […]

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The Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise: A Racism Experiment That Is Still Important 20 Years Later

I’ve seen videos of this experiment done before in classrooms, but I’d never seen a video like this one that shows the experiment being tried on adults, let alone audience members of The Oprah Winfrey Show. It’s still powerful seeing how people react, and diversity expert Jane Elliott’s words are impactful and well-said throughout the experiment. […]

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