You are invited to join the Dorchester People for Peace in the STAND AGAINST RACISM with the YWCA and more than 2000 other organizations across the country in national day to promote diversity and equality.
On Friday April 30th at 7pm in the Community Room of the Mt. Washington Bank, 305 Talbot Ave, Codman Square, Dorchester, there will be a showing of "Blue Eyed, Brown Eyed."
This documentary follows a group of 40 teachers, police, school administrators and social workers in Kansas City - blacks, Hispanics, whites, women and men as the participate in one of Jane Elliot’s workshops. Based on her work with school children in the 1960s, the blue-eyed members are subjected to pseudo-scientific explanations of their inferiority, culturally biased IQ tests and blatant discrimination. In just a few hours under Elliott's withering regime, we watch grown professionals become despondent and distracted, stumbling over the simplest commands.
This is an award winning documentary which offers viewers a chance to watch a full-length workshop with America's most dynamic diversity trainer, Jane Elliott.