Response to Eye of the Storm Experiment

Response to “Eye of the Storm” Experiment

As I began to watch this video, I realized that the children who the experiment was being conducted on were not as naive about racism as they were portrayed in the article. Even though they had never seen a black individual in their lives, they still knew they were called “Negroes and Niggers” and how extremely racist people were to them. The only thing they lacked knowledge on, was how these black individuals felt after being treated so poorly. Yet, they soon found out and it wasn’t anything they expected. Every child who was a minority because of their eye color experienced the same thoughts and emotions. They felt less than, land lacked energy to do anything. It was incredible to see how both blue eyed and brown eyed students turned into “Nasty, vicious, discriminating little third graders” as soon as they were told they were not the minorities