Many thanks for sharing this extremely powerful moment. People should pay money to watch this and learn from it!

Hhm, she doesn’t seem to be carrying out a serious sociological experiment as much as she is acting out some past trauma.

I mean how else can you seriously interpret a woman who declares herself a “bitch” while carrying out psychological experiments on children?

Poor dear, I wonder what happened to her…

Anyway this doesn’t so much indicate latent racism in “white” culture, as much as it demonstrates the ability of emotionally insecure people to dominate the world view and actions of groups of people who are not yet fully self-actualized.

Didn’t address racism at all, really, just adopted race conflict as a kind of aesthetic.

Kafka and Orwell would have things to say to her.

I was so hoping to be impressed by this experiment. Sadly, it was a huge clusterfuck. The one thing I gathered from this travesty is a freshly ignited contempt for the British.

God bless the USA. If you snivel like that in our melting pot, there is no skin color that could save you from an ass-kicking.

Racism is real, unfortunately.

Ms Elliot’s pseudo quasi-experiments were discredited in the U.S. years ago, so she’s hopped across the pond.

In the beginning, her methods may have done some good, but today, they just (as another poster already commented) expose her insecurity, much as the silliness from the University of Delaware’s Residence Life department has done; Delaware’s outcomes were undoubtedly based on insecurity. http://thefire.org/article/8597.html Take a peek at their departmental staff pages, at the “top” are the white ‘racists.’

Craziness like Delaware gets away with comes directly from Elliot’s statement, “I’ve reached a point now where I will no longer tolerate the intolerable. ” ummm hellloooo? anybody home? that makes you no better than than the intolerable.

I find it interesting in the bios, that the person responsible for that miscarriage of justice is proud to name her two mutts, but not her life partner and children.

 The point that is being made is that she is demonstrating how it feels to be on the recieving end as a person of non white descent. It is about emphasising with past wrongs and acknowledging them and making them right. Looking back in history at colonisation and fast forward nearly two hundred years to the stolen generations in Australia. The white people in control didn’t care about the person they were discriminating against. They dindn’t care they were taking children away from their parents. The didn’t want to know if these people were nice people or not. They only cared about being in power and having that power over someone who is of ‘lower social status’ because of their skin colour. That is all I have to say on this subject because it is no good talking about when there is obviously room for improvement. 

I read on wiki that this exercise was unfortunately infiltrated by  some actors, so got discredited. Though I think that this was a terrible result.
Also I believe England has it’s class structure being a big factor in how whites view racism.
Most upperclass whites who deny racism, are in a much more privileged part of the society, they also won’t have to deal with socialising with racial minorities either. So they can’t have true empathy, because they don’t personally know or care about anyone going through it daily.
Whites in a lower class unfortunately are less educated, they can either be more aware, or just plain ignorant, because they suffer through class discrimination(which is a big issue in the UK still).
This exercise is good in places like the US where class separation isn’t as entrenched in society.
I live in New Zealand, an ex colony of the UK. The subtle racist attitude is what we have here, I too being a white kid growing up in a more vocally racist part of the country didn’t realise the subtle racism and what was wrong with it, because I was more opposed to the more obvious racism I witnessed.
I saw someone asked what “…that crazy Bitch meant when she said white people were conditioned “before birth”? ”
I think what she is saying is we are born with parents who have been conditioned, that it has been the result of generations, we as white children are always provided with positive white imagery all around us. So we are conditioned to this idea of superiority, we don’t get the choice in that either. But it’s to make the choice when we become older, and are able to understand this inequality to do something about it.
You can try raising your white child ‘right and non-racist’ but society and the system works against you as a parent trying to dismiss these ignorant stereo-types.
So white kids are born into the privileged position, they didn’t choose it. Just like the black kid doesn’t choose all the societal implications that go with being black in the white society.

Also after reading a lot of these comments, it still seems to me that a lot of white westerners don’t realise or want to acknowledge the global influence and effect white mainstream media has on parts of the world, where you have little Asian kids growing up(in Asian countries) looking at ‘beautiful white people’ and seeing that imagery all their lives (as well as their own) But for them they realise  a lot younger than white people, that they’re ‘different’ ‘less than’ etc.

I guess my moving to Auckland in NZ which is very racially diverse, and being the token white guy working with Asian and Indian people, the self esteem (particularly the Chinese girls) have about their race and identity is sadly low. Some aspire to assimilate fully into NZ society, which really is what that guy who is mixed was talking about ‘playing the game’, it’s just assimilation to the white mainstream.

I’m just sad that more white people don’t see things on this level, there is an issue, it won’t go away with anti-discrimination laws and crap like that. It will never fully go away. But through education exercises, like this(though adjusted to the group you are working with) you can have a great deal of social progress.
Though I think the UK’s primary problem is the class structure, which picking on racial minorities when you are white and accused of privilege but happen to come from a low class, which means you actually have little to no privilege, but you have high class ‘educated’ (I’d say arrogant) whites accusing you of your perceived ignorance and racist tendency.
What I’m talking about I think is portrayed quite well in the movie “This Is England”.

Anyway that was a waffly load of shit…

I read on wiki that this exercise was unfortunately infiltrated by  some actors, so got discredited. Though I think that this was a terrible result.
Also I believe England has it’s class structure being a big factor in how whites view racism.
Most upperclass whites who deny racism, are in a much more privileged part of the society, they also won’t have to deal with socialising with racial minorities either. So they can’t have true empathy, because they don’t personally know or care about anyone going through it daily.
Whites in a lower class unfortunately are less educated, they can either be more aware, or just plain ignorant, because they suffer through class discrimination(which is a big issue in the UK still).
This exercise is good in places like the US where class separation isn’t as entrenched in society.
I live in New Zealand, an ex colony of the UK. The subtle racist attitude is what we have here, I too being a white kid growing up in a more vocally racist part of the country didn’t realise the subtle racism and what was wrong with it, because I was more opposed to the more obvious racism I witnessed.
I saw someone asked what “…that crazy Bitch meant when she said white people were conditioned “before birth”? ”
I think what she is saying is we are born with parents who have been conditioned, that it has been the result of generations, we as white children are always provided with positive white imagery all around us. So we are conditioned to this idea of superiority, we don’t get the choice in that either. But it’s to make the choice when we become older, and are able to understand this inequality to do something about it.
You can try raising your white child ‘right and non-racist’ but society and the system works against you as a parent trying to dismiss these ignorant stereo-types.
So white kids are born into the privileged position, they didn’t choose it. Just like the black kid doesn’t choose all the societal implications that go with being black in the white society.

Also after reading a lot of these comments, it still seems to me that a lot of white westerners don’t realise or want to acknowledge the global influence and effect white mainstream media has on parts of the world, where you have little Asian kids growing up(in Asian countries) looking at ‘beautiful white people’ and seeing that imagery all their lives (as well as their own) But for them they realise  a lot younger than white people, that they’re ‘different’ ‘less than’ etc.

I guess my moving to Auckland in NZ which is very racially diverse, and being the token white guy working with Asian and Indian people, the self esteem (particularly the Chinese girls) have about their race and identity is sadly low. Some aspire to assimilate fully into NZ society, which really is what that guy who is mixed was talking about ‘playing the game’, it’s just assimilation to the white mainstream.

I’m just sad that more white people don’t see things on this level, there is an issue, it won’t go away with anti-discrimination laws and crap like that. It will never fully go away. But through education exercises, like this(though adjusted to the group you are working with) you can have a great deal of social progress.
Though I think the UK’s primary problem is the class structure, which picking on racial minorities when you are white and accused of privilege but happen to come from a low class, which means you actually have little to no privilege, but you have high class ‘educated’ (I’d say arrogant) whites accusing you of your perceived ignorance and racist tendency.
What I’m talking about I think is portrayed quite well in the movie “This Is England”.

Anyway that was a waffly load of shit…