Produced by KSQD 90.7FM ~ "Be Bold America!" on July 18, 2021

Fiery and passionate, 87 year old Dr. Jane Elliott can’t be more direct or blunt about race.

The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968 was the catalyst for a young elementary school teacher in Riceville, Iowa to want to teach her class the next day about diversity. The lesson plan she created to do so became known as the “Blue eyes/Brown eyes” exercise.

The results were startling and astounding and rippled throughout the country, including hateful negative reactions from parents such as, "How dare you try this cruel experiment out on white children? Black children grow up accustomed to such behavior, but white children, there's no way they could possibly understand it. It's cruel to white children and will cause them great psychologi ...