Jane Elliott disscussess "Birth Dearth" ...

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5. Thank you for posting this, doublethink.

I missed this a few days ago (yikes, sorry about that) and ran across it while cleaning out browser tabs. Boy am I glad I did. Jane Elliott is brilliant, knowledgeable, and right on point. I hope folks do take five minutes for this, because it is a very important element of the RW racism credo. The "birth dearth" idea is not new, nor is it just an incidental item on the Republican party doomsday checklist.

It took a second while watching the clip, but then I remembered. Jane Elliot is the school teacher who originated the Blue-Eyes-Brown-Eyes exercise in her classroom after the assassination of Martin Luther King.

48 sec. clip:

I want every white person in this room who would be happy to be treated as this society, in general, treats our black citizens -- if you, as a white person, would be happy to recieve the same treatment as our black citizens do in this society, please stand.

[auditorium is silent, stays seated]

You didn't understand the directions. If you white folks want to be treated the way blacks are in this society, stand.

Nobody's standing here. That says very plainly that you know what's happening, you know you don't want it for you. I want to know why you're so willing to accept it or to allow it to happen for others.