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- Most people think of me

as that miserable old bitch.

That's the word that is used most often to refer to me.

It doesn't bother me.

That word is an acronym for Being In Total Control, Honey.

[vehicle roars past]

You're supposed to be here at 11 o'clock.

Come on in.

You have to see this.

People have to read this book

and they have to read it this week.

If you don't read it,

you don't know what's happening

in this country today.

Read that and then you read

Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny".

Do not obey in advance.

Be wary of paramilitaries like QAnon and the Proud Boys.

You're going to read that,

and here's another one everybody should read.

You got a picture of this?

This is an assignment.

There will be a test.

Have you read this book?

[phone rings]

Hello?

- [Tina] My name is Tina from Senior Benefits.

How are you today?

- Well, I was really fine until you called me.

Please do not dial this number again.

I do not need what you're selling, all right?

Thank you very much, goodbye.

[mellow country music]

I'm going to take it with me.

And now they're going to say,

"Well, it's a few pounds heavy,"

and I'll start taking out books.

You're a very brave soul if you're going to ride with me.

I want you to know that.

That stands for blue eye, brown eye,

because that's what I do.

Can you stand dust?

I'm an old woman, 89 years old.

But for me, old is an acronym

for Octogenarian Living Dangerously.

And that's what I'm doing.

- [Emcee] It is my excruciating pleasure

to introduce to you, Jane Elliott.

[audience applauds and cheers]

- I was born in 1933.

Now you're thinking, oh shit, that's an old bitch up there.

Yeah.

[audience laughs]

I'm Jane Elliott.

I'm a person who did the blue- eyed, brown-eyed exercise

in discrimination in my third grade classroom

in all-white, all-Christian Riceville, Iowa in 1968.

Blue-eyed people are better than brown-eyed people.

And if you don't believe it, look at Brian.

People got angry.

- [Person Off-Camera] This woman should be in jail.

- And some people saw it as the right thing to do.

- [Reporter] What began as a classroom experiment is

now widely used in schools and government.

- And I have to say, you hold the record

for the most hate mail ever

on "The Oprah Show" every time you're here.

- Okay.

This sweatshirt, I wear every day because it's

important that people see that woman has

got her beliefs on her chest.

Well, that's where men look.

I'm an educator.

It is my job to lead people out of ignorance.

- [Crowd] Black lives matter, Black lives matter.

- This country was beginning to change.

I thought, now I can put my suitcase down and give it up,

and then here comes this backlash.

Education in this country is

in worse shape now than the first year I did the exercise.

- America is back.

[audience applauds and cheers]

Our public schools have been taken over

by the radical left maniacs.

We will cut federal funding

for any school pushing

inappropriate racial or political content.

- [Jane] I've been put on a list

of banned authors and speakers,

and now I have no choice

but to change the situation.

- When she popped back up,

I remember like, oh, this lady's still here.

Jane travels the country, swagging like hell,

this beautiful sweatshirt on

and encourage people not to be fucking racist.

- Killer Mike.

- White people who are watching, Google Jane Elliott.

- Her videos are all over TikTok,

so I wrote "The Return of Jane Elliott".

Jane absolutely believes education is

one of the most powerful tools that we have.

- Jane Elliott, thank you so much for being on our show.

- Jane is standing up to protect

and defend an educator's right to challenge racism.

- Can we bring Jane out?

Is Jane here?

So what do you think we need to do?

- Here's what you can do, you can educate yourself.

- I should be doing more homework.

- Doesn't matter what you should do.

What matters is what are you going to do?

- Yes, ma'am.

- The biggest problem we have in this country is

we are afraid to stand up and speak out.

What you do today is creating the future.

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You can either duck and cover

or you can plow through and make a difference.

And I believe I'm more of the duck-and-cover kind of person.

- I know that's how they feel.

I understand that perfectly,

because it's just easier to go along to get along

than it is to stand up and say,

"No, that's not going to happen where I am."

Somebody's knocking on your door.

[knock on door]

- Who is it?

- Well, it's the monster from next door.

[Everett screams]

I have come to eat you.

[Everett screams]

I fear for those beautiful great-grandchildren of mine.

- [Everett] Look at the ceiling.

- Oh, isn't that something?

I'm not going to stop talking

as long as I'm still breathing.

[foreboding music]

[plane intercom beeps]

If you, as a white person,

would be happy to receive the same treatment

that our Black citizens do in this society, please stand.

Nobody's standing here.

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.

- When I saw Jane's videos,

I realized that I recognize this face,

I recognize this voice, I recognize this exercise,

but who is this woman?

- Good morning, I'm Jane Elliott.

I'm your resident bitch for the day.

- When we think of Jane Elliott,

we think of this iron-fisted, anti-racist educator,

but we don't see how she got to the point

to create the exercise.

- I think that she's a badass superhero,

but in spite of her tough veneer

and her grit that she has to have,

she's just a human being.

[gentle country music]

[car buzzes past]

- [Jane] I was born and raised

and taught third grade in Riceville, Iowa.

We had a really good reputation in this community

until I did the blue-eyed/brown-eyed exercise.

I'm constantly getting threatened with,

"You're going to die, bitch."

And I think, "Oh, well, have fun with it, fella."

My siblings don't have time for me.

My mother kicked me out of the family,

and I've made life extremely difficult for all my kids.

However, I will not change

in order to get along with any of them.

- My older sister lives about seven or eight miles away

from Mom in Iowa.

I sound exactly like her.

- Mom, she's an educator first and a mom second,

and we all know that.

Every single one of us knows that.

My kids know that she's an educator first

and a grandma third.

- The two of us are so much alike.

That's the reason we don't get along as well as we should.

I think I know everything

and she's absolutely positive that she does.

[geese honk]

Sarah, come here.

Come here.

Now we're going to see a farm that we've had

in the family for 150 years, about.

- [Sarah] Let's go. - Yeah, it's a century farm.

- Anybody want a La Croix for the road?

- Want a what?

- [Sarah] Drink for the road?

- Glass of water, a bottle of water would be nice.

- [Sarah] Yeah, I don't have any of that.

- Now, this is why it's handy to have a daughter in town.

You understand that.

[vehicle roars past]

When I'm home, I try to get out to the farm

because my roots are there,

my memories are there,

and my dad is there.

- You know, the only good memories I have

of Riceville are before the exercise.

But I'm not going to talk about that.

- [Jane] No, that's a good idea, Sarah.

There are things you might as just as well leave alone.

[gentle music]

- [Sarah] Coming?

- Let's get our asses out of here.

I think this is the way out, isn't it?

Walking on this land is like nothing else that I ever do.

It's here.

It's the memories and the feeling that you get

from being someplace where you were known forever.

[projector whirs]

I was born into a family of seven children.

We had no money.

Seven kids,

bathing, washing, doing the floors, doing the cooking.

Everything came out of this pump right there.

That doesn't mean anything to anybody but me.

- [Sarah] No. - Let me show you

the milk house.

My mother wanted a boy, she got a girl.

She was quite angry.

And the doctor said, "What do you want to name it?"

She said, "I haven't thought of any more girls' names.

Lloyd, you name her."

So my father named me Mabel, after his sister,

whom my mother hated,

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Now, that's what we need today.

- Educators are scared.

The new school board that came in wants

to take us backwards.

Jane has a granddaughter and a grandson

that graduated here in Temecula,

and she came to the school and she spoke.

Now, they'd never let Jane Elliott have

a conversation with students.

Do you guys have an idea why you don't see

as many Black teachers?

One of the reasons why is

because of Brown versus the Board of Education.

When desegregation happened,

what do you think happened to the Black teachers

that were at the Black schools?

Do you think they were able to go

to the white schools and start teaching?

- What we're going to be talking about today is

in the board,

so a lot of the decisions that have been happening are

due to the conservative majority on the board.

This is about our education.

These people got elected.

They came in there and they made decisions

about what students can and cannot learn.

- [Joseph] Can we know the names

of who put these books in our libraries?

- [Reporter] With Komrosky as president,

the board approved policies to ban

the teaching of systemic racism.

- [Dianne] You can't tell me I can't teach

the history of America,

because I lived it.

Growing up, I had to work,

cropping tobacco, picking cotton.

My parents were sharecroppers.

A sharecropper is one step above slavery,

and that's not that long ago.

How are you? - How are you?

- I'm good.

As educators, we have

an administrative regulation

of what we can and cannot teach.

- Prohibiting the teaching of divisive ideology

and racial guilt for conduct and policies that are

long in the past.

We aren't teaching history to make

white children feel guilty.

We are educating children so that these children,

as they get older,

will not repeat the mistakes of the past.

- They eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion,

and now they want to get rid

of the social workers that we have.

- We got to put a stop to this,

and educators can put a stop to this,

and they absolutely must.

- I feel like a lot of times, I'm a lone wolf.

We have a lot of teachers who won't speak up.

- Every teacher who's allowing that to go on is

contributing to the problem.

Oh God, I get upset about this kind of thing

because parents send their kids to school to be educated

and to be taught the truth.

Let the younger teachers see

that you can make a difference and you aren't afraid to.

- [Dianne] This has been a tough year.

How are you feeling?

- I am not supposed to talk

about any historical transgression

where you might feel emotionally upset or guilty.

You do feel bad when you read about slavery,

when you read about the Trail of Tears.

But if you feel emotionally upset,

you're supposed to report me, so.

- There is a huge backlash against educators

right, right now.

Our board is fostering it. - [Teacher] Yes.

- Our teachers are so afraid.

Right now, I have one book that I could teach

by an African American author,

and I can no longer teach it, right?

- How are we prepared as teachers,

as professionals, as educators,

to say we want to do what's right for all students.

- We're going to do our job,

teach the standards the way that we are

legally obligated to do, right?

That's our job.

- Keeping the head down.

I think silence means agreement.

What we have to start doing is showing up.

- [Teacher] Yeah. - We all have to be strong.

Many of us teach about people that rose up

against whatever the obstacle was.

We have to model that.

We have to be strong.

- You said you guys got to be strong.

I'm tired of being strong,

this strong Black woman, you know?

But I need some help.

You are always supporting me behind the scenes.

I need you to support in the front.

[school bell rings] [thoughtful music]

- Discrimination won't work unless white people agree

to go along,

and we do.

- Riceville, Iowa,

with a population of a little less than 1,000 people.

It's a relatively poor town

surrounded by large cornfields.

Its people are all white and all Christian.

- Nothing was going on in Riceville

except planting corn and picking corn.

Very small town.

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I wouldn't know the truth if I hadn't read

books about racism written by people of color.

This is full of good stuff.

A child cannot be taught by someone who despises him.

James Baldwin said that

and he was absolutely right.

When I started teaching in Riceville in 1964,

I would read every book I could get my hands on.

- We had a number of Black Power activists who said,

"Focus on the white community."

- She started understanding

what Dick Gregory understood,

understanding what H. Rap Brown,

Free Jamil al-Amin understood,

and that's that racism is a white problem

created by white people.

- [Jane] My third graders came into my room

with racist remarks that their former teachers had said.

So I started teaching the truth.

I made Martin Luther King Jr.

one of our heroes of the month.

We learned things that they weren't supposed to learn.

I taught my students we are

all descendants of those first modern human beings

who evolved in sub-Saharan Africa.

One kid said, "I can't wait to tell my dad

that the first man on earth was Black."

I said, "Oh Lord, he's a member of the school board.

I'm in big trouble here."

Those students on a daily basis were

reinforced for maintaining ignorance

where skin color is concerned.

As an educator, I can't just turn my back on things

that are being said and done

that are damaging to my students.

That isn't one of the rights that I have as an educator.

I was going to have to get through

to those kids so they won't forget.

- See, I'm convinced that if every white person

in the United States could be

a Negro for two weeks in Mississippi,

that segregation would no longer exist.

- Nobody really knows what it means

to be a Negro unless one can really experience it.

- She figured out it's not about telling the student

what is right.

You have to feel some discomfort

and pain to understand

the magnified discomfort and pain other people feel.

After King died, it sparked something in her.

- Good evening.

Dr. Martin Luther King,

the apostle of non-violence in the Civil Rights Movement,

has been shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee.

Police have issued an all-points bulletin

for a well-dressed young white man seen

running from the scene.

Officers also...

- [Jane] I can remember the feeling of utter devastation

and disappointment

and anger.

He represented hope for me and for this country.

The television was on.

- I've just been handed a note that says

some violence is, has already broken out in part.

- And there was Dan Rather saying

to three leaders of the Black community,

"Who's going to keep your people in line?"

- Is there anything that can be said

to the Negro leaders to curb this disorder, Mr. Wilkins?

- I don't think so.

- But what can be said to leaders

in the Negro community

where this happened? - You can't say anything

to them at this time.

- Are you sympathetic at all to the plight

of the white man this evening?

- I don't understand quite the...

- There needs to be an immediate response

on the part of decent white people in this country.

Tomorrow, decent white people must stand up.

It's not important what the majority

of white people think,

it's what they do.

- [Jane] My husband came in.

I was crying and he said,

"What are you going to do, Jane?"

It might be interesting to judge

people today by the color of their eye.

Would you like to try this?

- [Children] Yeah.

- Sounds like fun, doesn't it?

I mean, the blue -eyed people are

the better people in this room.

- [Child] Uh-uh. - Oh yes, they are.

I decided to treat

those who have the wrong color eyes

the way we treat people of color in this country.

Blue-eyed people are smarter than brown-eyed people.

They are cleaner than brown-eyed people.

They are more civilized than brown-eyed people.

I used eye color because it's

a physical characteristic over which you have no control,

just like skin color.

The brown-eyed people do not get to use

the drinking fountain.

You brown-eyed people are

not to play with the blue-eyed people on the playground.

The blue-eyed people get five extra minutes of recess.

Well, the brown-eyed people in this room today are

going to wear collars.

Within 15 minutes,

I created a microcosm of society

in my third grade classroom.

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Someone sent a copy of that article

to "The Johnny Carson Show".

- [Announcer] And now,

here's Johnny.

[audience applauds]

- [Jane] Here I am, dumb little country girl.

Never have been on a plane.

Never been out of Iowa.

I had no idea what was coming.

The letters that I got from people

who learned about the exercise were

so filthy and so ugly and so demeaning

that I couldn't show them to my students.

All hell broke loose, of course.

[audience applauds]

- Thank you.

- State superintendent of Schools, Max Rafferty,

under Governor Ronald Reagan,

attacks Jane in a nationally syndicated op-ed,

compares Jane to Hitler

and says that her ideas about racism are

not only skewed,

but they're dangerous and harmful.

- I must confess,

I just hated you

and my children hated you as well.

- If you had thought, "Oh, isn't she a sweet, nice lady",

the whole thing would have been meaningless.

In the United States,

we are preconditioned to white supremacy.

This is totally ridiculous.

It's just as logical to me to judge

a person's worth by the color of his eyes

as it is to judge it by the color of his skin.

- I could not say at the conclusion of it

that we had learned anything about anti-discrimination.

- If it were possible to raise

a generation of children who felt

that the color of your skin was

not the criteria by which you should be judged,

would this make a difference?

Now, if I am to be condemned

for having tried to do something

about this kind of thing,

so be it.

- One thing you're not is mediocre.

If there's anything we need

are some teachers like you who are

really somebody, something to say.

- [Jane] Oh, I think I like him.

[audience laughs]

- If you look at the first three years of the exercise,

they all garnered major media coverage.

"Life" magazine article,

CBC, Canadian documentary of the exercise.

There are copycats to Jane's exercise.

- On Monday, Cabin John Junior High School

in the Washington suburbs began

an experiment to illustrate discrimination.

- The way these children reacted,

white children in an all-white community,

could be this upset

after one day of this kind of treatment.

Every third grader should have to have this experience.

I was invited to be a member

of the White House Conference on Children and Youth.

- I'm sure that each one of you is

here taking part in this great conference

because you do care not only about children in the mass,

but about the child.

- And we put 140 delegates

through the blue-eyed/brown-eyed exercise.

They exploded.

They finally had to call in the security police

because of the riot that was going on in this one room.

It was most interesting.

And then the film came out,

"The Eye of the Storm".

[dramatic music]

- [Announcer] This week,

"The Eye of the Storm".

- We were going to be shown

on national television.

- A lot of publicity for such a small town.

- [Rex] Of course, I was excited

we were going to be in a movie.

But when the film came out,

there was such a backlash.

- A lot of people thought

that Jane cast Riceville as a hillbilly,

redneck,

racist town.

- But she believed in everything she was doing,

so she kept pushing on and pushing on.

- This place? Hmm.

I was sad, I didn't like coming to school here.

It was sad.

It was, but because I had to go to school,

I went to school.

And

all I remember is just teachers being mean

to my family members.

Nothing prepared us

for the ostracizing that we got

and the beatings that we got

and the spitting that we got

and the teachers' treatment that we got.

After the exercise,

Mom became protective of her third graders

and we took second seat.

We had to,

we had to shut up and take it.

Her mantra was,

"This is going to make you a stronger human being."

- The phone would ring at strange hours of the night,

but I was a littler kid.

I didn't know anything that was going on.

My older siblings,

it really did a number on them.

- Somebody said, "Well, what do you expect

with what your mom did?

Of course you're going to get beat up."

- [Jane] My mother called me and said,

"Don't come over here anymore.

Nobody's comfortable when you are around.

You've embarrassed all of us

with that eye color thing.

Don't come here anymore."

My father lost all his friends in that community,

but I kept right on teaching

in the Riceville School,

doing the exercise every year.

The nastiness just became

part of my daily routine,

and there's a certain joy in that

because once you are the unforgiven,

you are absolutely free.

Everybody ought to be made aware of this.

Have you read this?

Get this and read it because it shows you

how the first modern human beings began

in Southern Africa

and how they traveled to populate

every landmass on the face of the Earth.

This is where Jesus came from originally,

and he had feet of bronze and kinky, wooly hair.

So the next time you see that head of Christ in the church,

remember, that's not telling you the truth.

- What I have most appreciated

about my relationship with Jane is

not only as a friend and as a mentor,

is that I really see myself as a student.

- The truth is you're not a member

of the white race or the Black race,

you're a member of the human race.

And you started in the same place that all the rest did,

and it was right here.

- Race was something created

in part by bullshit science,

in part by oligarchs of Europe,

but let's admit, the Church.

- [Jane] The words Black and white came up

out of the Spanish Inquisition because they needed

a way to decide who might be a Christian.

That was in the 1500s.

Go to the dictionary and look up the word black.

It's going to say hostile, evil.

And if you look up the word white,

it's going to say pure and good.

We all come in shades of brown.

This is what teachers use to teach geography.

This is the Mercator map

commissioned by the Pope to show

the spread of Christianity.

And as a result of that,

the countries in which we think of

as mostly white peoples

are much larger than the others.

If you're using this map, you're teaching racism.

There is a better way.

The sizes on this map are right.

The United States would fit in this corner of Africa.

This map is important.

It tells the truth.

Those of us who know the truth are

going to spread it so far

and so often that nobody is going to be able to kill it.

There's not a power on earth

that can stop an idea whose time has come.

[car horn honks]

- Do you want to pay for activists in your school

or educators in your school?

- [Journalist] We're taking a closer look at the impact

political conflicts are having in public schools.

- [Journalist 2] Nowhere was this more evident

than Temecula,

where a conservative pastor used

his political PAC money to take

a conservative majority on the Temecula school board.

- Pray for Joseph for that courage that he be

protected from the enemy,

and that God's will would be done in his campaign.

- And the Board of Education,

they will crumble like the walls of Jericho.

- Amen. - Stand up.

[audience applauds and cheers]

The Inland Empire Family PAC has

helped me get elected.

They share a majority of the same values as I do.

These are traditional family values.

We don't want our kids being indoctrinated.

We're white, right?

So they say we're the oppressor

and the non-whites are the oppressed.

That kind of vision is un-American.

Did you pursue excellence based upon your own merit

or is it because of your skin color?

- [Jane] These Christian nationalists are

doing exactly what Jesus told us not to do.

[zipper zipping]

I suppose I better take this with me, hadn't I?

Boards of education are boards of indoctrination now.

- [All] I pledge allegiance to the flag

of the United States of America.

- [Jane] Christian nationalists perpetuate

the myth of white superiority

no matter what you have to leave out of the curriculum,

and what you have to leave out is honesty.

- If a member of the public approaches

this dais and it's not during public comments,

I'm going to ask security to intervene.

If you see me point to you and I give you a yellow,

it's your first warning that you are

actually disrupting the board meeting for proceeding.

- [Jane] Thank you for putting up with this crap.

- If you receive a second yellow,

it automatically turns into a red,

you'll be asked to escort yourself

out of the board meeting.

I reserve the right to have the entire audience removed.

- [Board Secretary] Jane Elliott.

[audience applauds]

- I'm Jane Elliott, I'm the meanest teacher in the world.

And I want you to know that,

and I don't mind that you think that.

I've been fighting this battle for 55 years.

People, it's time to put a stop to this.

The three Rs are not reading, writing and religion.

So those of you who think that's all right

to put in the school, you're wrong.

You're absolutely wrong.

We need to change this situation.

Hold his feet to the fire, make him do it.

Thank you very much.

[audience applauds]

I'm a practicing Christian,

and I'm going to keep on practicing

till I get it right.

I obviously don't have it right yet,

but I'm working on it.

Want a map?

It's time for us to stop turning the other cheek.

You turn the other cheek and they'll slap you on that one.

This is going on because it's gone on before.

Those books belong to the school.

They do not belong to this group

of twisted Christians

that you've got to go out into the neighborhood and say

to everybody, "They're trying to keep

your kids from learning."

- The school board president repeatedly

abused his authority by silencing

those who dare to challenge his harmful decision.

[audience applauds and cheers]

- That is why I volunteered collecting signatures

to vote you out.

- Save our schools, vote yes to recall Komrosky.

[audience applauds]

- If somebody mentions recall going forward,

you're going to get an immediate warning.

The second time, the mic is shut off.

- So we can plan on that you're going to vote, right?

Okay, great.

- [Journalist] Has an Inland Empire city finally had

enough of the culture wars?

Temecula's school board president is

facing a recall election.

Critics are saying they're tired

of what they call destruction and chaos he's been causing.

- So we're just making sure that you've signed

the petition to recall?

- Yeah, taking that kind of control,

it's like people need to be informed about this.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

- Good to see you.

- Thank you. - I appreciate you so much.

[dramatic music]

- I'm Jane Elliott, I'm the meanest teacher in the world,

and I want you to know that,

and I don't mind that you think that.

- Whatever you say, comrade,

these are the same types of people who are

trying to force-feed DEI into our everyday lives,

into our businesses, into our school systems.

- This is the kind of comment I get.

After watching several videos

of you indoctrinating America's youth

into believing everything and everyone is racist,

I'd just like you to know eat shit, you elitist cunt,

you stupid, vapid, uneducated fuckwit.

Fuck wit.

It's hard for me to say that, I don't see it very often.

Fuckwit.

Go fuck yourself and lose the Mo Howard haircut.

Nasty, bitter old bitch.

Die soon and help make America great.

I'm amazed that I've lived this long, quite frankly,

but if this is the kind of person

that disapproves of what I'm doing,

then what I'm doing must be right.

- Many like what she teaches and stands for,

others hate her.

- [Journalist] Piles of mail Elliott has accumulated

over the years show many disagree with her

and condemn her exercise.

- I've had a knife pulled on me during the exercise.

I've been hit by a member of the Aryan Nations

and he says I'm on the top of their hit list.

In 1985, I left the classroom to do

the exercise with adults.

- Blue-eyed.

- [Journalist] Why aren't you teaching

in the classroom anymore?

- I'm still teaching.

I'm just teaching at a different level.

- What is this like, teaching these adults?

- Just like teaching third graders,

but with a little more intensity.

Get out here and sit down or leave,

and I don't care what you do,

but you are not going to keep this workshop from happening.

- What are your results?

- The same as with these children, except adults riot.

[woman yelling]

- [Jane] Go back and get the collars on or don't come in.

- You have a whole new generation of people

that are getting exposed to Jane Elliott.

I'm one of them.

You know, my first experience with Jane was

watching her on one of those "Oprah" episodes.

Jane is one of her first guests on her show

when it was local in Chicago,

and she brought Jane when she went national.

- Today's studio audience thinks

that they've come to a regular "Oprah Winfrey Show".

- [Jane] Come on, come on, come on, come on.

What color are your eyes?

- [Oprah] But without knowing it,

they've walked into this exercise.

- [Jane] Over there.

- [Oprah] The blue-eyed people were pulled out of line,

told to put on a green collar

and were left standing in a crowded room

for over two hours.

- [Jane] I was on the "Oprah" show five times.

- Welcome, Jane Elliott, Jane.

[audience applauds and cheers]

- [Jane] She'd call me in during Sweep Week

and I'd go in and her show would be number one that week,

every time I was on the show.

- She was rude to us. - Very rude.

- All of us. - She told us,

"You put that green collar on or you're out of here."

- This is not real life.

We were treated completely different.

- But wait a minute, this isn't real life for you.

- [Guest] Well, number one. - For how many

of you people of color is this real life?

I'd like to see your hands.

[audience applauds]

- She's trying to teach about racism,

but she can't get away from the fact

that God created the races.

- God created the human race,

and human beings created racism.

[audience applauds]

White people do not live in the same reality

that people of color do.

We think that because we have all these freedoms,

everybody else has them too.

That isn't the way it is, people.

- Oprah at this stage is just coming into her own.

She recognizes that Jane has

the ability to talk about a subject

which Oprah herself probably desperately wanted

to talk about,

but it would have been impossible as a Black woman

it would have gotten the same traction.

- How many of you have had somebody say to you,

"When I see you, I don't see you as Black"?

- [Audience] Yeah. [audience chuckling]

- How many of your first reaction was,

"How long have you been blind, bitch?"

[audience laughs]

- People go, "Well, isn't this unique?"

Like, who's this little white woman who's coming out of Iowa

who's speaking so powerfully about racism?

- We are educated by a racist school system

that only teaches us about white contributions,

and that's a fact.

[audience applauds]

I realized I could use

television to truly educate people if we chose to.

- Well, I found out one thing today.

I am prejudiced, and I'm not proud of it either.

- [Oprah] What made you think that you were?

- It's just listening to everything that was said here.

We are all human beings and we should love each other.

- [Jane] But see, I'm not sold on love either.

[audience laughs]

- Why aren't you sold on love?

- We have had love in this country for 500 years.

We have yet to get justice.

- Jane and Oprah work in tandem

in a way that helps to make Jane a household name.

- You look like the last person

who would be such a passionate teacher

about racism and discrimination.

- I'm short, so I'm non-threatening.

I'm female, so I don't have any real power.

And I'm white, so I have credibility.

- If Jane Elliott had been a Black woman,

it would have been a completely different response.

But a lot of times,

white people need to see other white people get it

for them to feel like, "Okay, now I'm ready to listen."

- [Ibram] Certainly, Jane's going to be

elevated in ways that Black people who are saying

similar things won't.

[audience applauds]

People are conflicted over Jane's success,

but what's the alternative?

I'm not conflicted.

I don't think the responsibility of that work

should rest on people of color.

- The feeling that I had when I found out

she was going to be on the show,

I thought, "Great, here's a white person

who's going to say that the schools are racist.

I thought to hear her say it, she'll tell you."

I said, "You know you're going to make my job easier today."

- [Todd] Those in the corporate world hire

Jane for their diversity training.

- [Journalist] From prison guards

to corporate executives,

they are collared, isolated, put down.

- And at the same time,

Jane is traveling to do

the exercise outside of the United States,

Europe,

Saudi Arabia,

Australia.

- [Jane] This country doesn't have a unique form of racism.

Racism is racism.

Move your leg, put your legs together.

Look, move them over.

Do you have any physical problems

that I need to know about?

Do you have any mental problems I need to know about?

Do you absolutely have to chew that gum?

Why do you have your hat on?

You need to understand that the person who is

going to be in control in this situation is me.

- After years of doing the exercise,

Jane is a master manipulator.

That's what you need to be

if you're going to do it well.

- [Jane] Where are you going?

Get in the blue-eyed section.

The blue-eyed section is in the middle of the room.

Get there.

Read the first sign on the left-hand side of the wall.

- Blue eyes are looking for someone to take care of them.

- [Jane] And why didn't you stand up?

- Because I'm capable of reading from my seat.

- Did all the rest of them stand up?

- Yeah, they did.

- What should he have done? - [All] Stand up.

- [Jane] Get your ass off the floor

and stand up and do it now.

These blue-eyed people want to be comfortable?

Are they lazy?

Do they do it their way?

- [Participant] Yes.

- She's a teacher, but she's a teacher in a jiu-jitsu

or a boxing coach-like way.

She's not going to let you avoid getting hit.

You're going to get smacked in the face.

- [Jane] What should you have done?

- I should have brought my paper and pencil over here

and kept it with me the entire time.

- That's right, that's right.

You're acting angry. - I am angry.

- What are you angry about?

- I'm angry that you're yelling at me.

- The way that she teaches is

by marginalizing people

and helping them to understand

what it feels to be ostracized

and what being put down or what being kept down does.

You can't do that in a genteel way.

- What are you crying about?

- My feelings were hurt.

- How were your feelings hurt?

- Just were.

- [Jane] I cannot shed tears for a person in this exercise

who knows that this is an exercise,

who knows that it's temporary.

- You persecuted her for standing out.

- [Jane] You are doing it again.

- You persecuted him for standing out.

[woman sobs]

- [Jane] Martin Luther King Jr. was shot.

Are you in any physical danger here?

Some of you are thinking,

oh, this is too harsh for this young woman.

- Is it traumatic?

Absolutely.

It's really seared into the being

of people who go through it

so that it will never be lost.

- No, no.

You don't come back in here

until you've apologized to every person in this room,

because you just exercised a freedom

that none of these people of color have.

When you get tired of being judged and treated unfairly

on the basis of your eye color,

you can walk out that door

and you know it won't happen out there.

When these people of color get tired of racism,

they can't just walk out

because there's no place in this country

where they aren't going to be exposed to racism.

- [Todd] Whether she's conducting

the eye color exercise

with elementary students

or she's doing it with adults,

the criticism stays the same.

The exercise is not ethical.

It scars these white people.

- [Caller] What she did is absolutely wrong.

- [Journalist] All right.

- [Caller] And the parents in America had better start

standing up for their children.

- People who call in and say,

"How could you do that

to those white children for a day?"

I want to know how you justify

doing this to children of color for a lifetime.

That's what I want you to get upset about.

If you don't want it for a little white child,

how do you justify it

for a whole lot of children of color?

- At the end of the exercise,

she brings everybody together

and they discuss what they just went through.

- The exercise is over.

You don't have to worry about your eye color anymore.

And some of you still don't have to worry

about your skin color,

but some of the rest of you do.

So I can end this exercise.

Or you can say, "No, it isn't over for me.

I will never forget this

and I will make something better happen

because of this exercise."

I want you to write how I felt.

Read yours.

- Overwhelmed, sick, and guilty.

- [Jane] Give up guilt.

Now people, this is not about guilt.

This is about responsibility.

This is not about guilt.

This is about responsibility.

- [Ibram] For people to say the exercise is cruel,

what I actually think is cruel is

leaving white people vulnerable to racist ideas.

And that's the irony.

Jane has been framed as somebody who doesn't like

white people when in reality it's the very opposite.

- I was embarrassed,

and then the emotion carried on to things that I've said,

things that my friends have said,

things that teachers have said in school, politicians.

- Did you learn anything?

- Damn right, I learned a whole bunch.

- [Jane] Was this a good experience for you?

- Yes, yes it was.

- Is it going to change the way you behave?

- [Young Man] Yes, yes it will.

- Yeah, who's responsible for that?

- You and I.

- You are.

Hey there.

Hey there, hey there.

Oh.

Am I ever ready to see you, Sophie.

I'm so ready to see you.

I just, I'm so angry.

If you aren't angry about Project 2025,

there's something wrong with your mind.

I'm going to cut myself on this grater

just because I'm angry, see?

- [Sophie] Don't do that.

♪ Now thank we all our God ♪

♪ with hearts and souls and voices ♪

♪ Please don't call me again ♪

♪ I don't need what you're selling, goodbye ♪

Here we go, here we go.

[engine rumbles]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, watch out, Grammy

Watch out Grammy, you're going to kill somebody.

[Jane laughing]

Hanging on?

- You both say what you want, when you want to.

- Yeah. - Maybe that's why

you guys don't get along.

- We tried to get her to stop

one year after she'd done it several times

and

you know Mom, can't stop her. - Mm-hmm.

- [Sarah] We were constantly

in competition with the exercise

that she did out of town.

I would pray, I remember praying at night,

"Mom, why can't you just stay home?"

She will tear up about Martin Luther King

and his assassination,

but she doesn't tear up over the hell that we went through.

My brother Brian was beaten terribly.

- One night he came home from school

and he was bloody and bruised and a mess.

And I said, "What in hell happened to you?"

Four high school boys were

in a car chasing him,

and they caught him before he got to the house

and three of them got out to beat him up

and he was just a mess.

And I called each one of their parents

and one of their parents said,

"He got what you deserved.

You better, you should have known better than to do that."

And I asked the principal what he wanted to do about it

and he says, "You should have thought about this

before you did that thing."

Yeah, it's been interesting

being the person who committed an absolute sin in Riceville,

but it's been even more interesting

being the children of the woman who committed that sin.

And I know that.

But then you think of all the kids of color

in this country

who suffer every day.

- Yeah. - I'm not sorry

that I did the exercise.

It was worth it.

- Yeah.

[group chatters indistinctly]

- [Camerawoman] And there's Brian, Sarah.

- [Sarah] Brian and I just grew away from my mom.

My brother wanted to get away from the exercise

and went as far west as he could.

They did not speak to one another anymore.

My dad,

he was my rock.

- That's my husband.

When I met him, he looked exactly like Marlon Brando

and I was immediately attracted

and then distracted and then there was nothing else.

And he never stopped being loving

and kind and supportive.

[somber piano music]

Right after I did the first exercise,

he said, "My God, Jane,

you did the right thing.

What are they complaining about?

Those kids learned a lot."

- He knew every single word of her speech.

He would be crying because he was so proud.

- When Dad passed, everything changed.

He was the equalizer.

Mom was lonely.

The other half of her heart is gone.

So she poured herself even more into working

so that she doesn't have to be alone with her thoughts.

- [Announcer] Tomorrow, Elliott will be featured

as the Person of the Week on ABC's World News Tonight.

- She is one tough cookie.

- And.

[Sarah sighs]

It went downhill.

- Being on television and all that stuff that I have made,

it should have been an opportunity

to tell people something that they didn't want to know,

but it all turned into something else.

- When one takes the position,

an almost universal guilt

on the part of the white community that can only be,

you're shaking your head already.

Why are you shaking your head?

- No, no, no, this is not guilt.

I'm not talking about guilt.

I'm talking about responsibility.

- [Ted Koppel] Fine, a universal.

- I'm not laying a guilt trip on anyone.

I'm laying responsibility for the use

and misuse of power on those people who have it.

And that's you and that's me.

- I thank you very much.

It's been a pleasure talking to you.

- When she is now dealing with mainstream media,

evening news,

she becomes very skeptical.

- [Peter Jennings] Jane Elliott,

come out here for a sec, could you Jane?

[audience applauds] What's the point you were making?

We just asked you to come today

and talk to them about prejudice.

- Talking doesn't work.

We've been talking about prejudice

for the last 300 years in this country

and it hasn't worked yet.

Talking is not the answer.

- [Todd] The media creates this caricature of Jane,

this authoritarian that is making people miserable,

seemingly for fun.

- There's a segment of this media

that absolutely wishes to make her a villain of some sort.

[audience applauds and cheers]

It was the era of Jenny Jones, Jerry Springer.

- People hate us for it.

In our schools, we're taught to be ashamed

of our race because of slavery.

I didn't bring the slaves over here.

- [Audience Member] When I was in school, they taught...

- It just became about the fodder of us against them.

- One day I said to the person next to me,

"What did you do on the show?"

I'm a professional audience member.

I said, "What do you mean?"

They give me a question to ask.

And I thought, "Oh, I'm not an entertainer.

I'm an educator."

- Jane has to put on armor every day

and have faith that one day people are going to get it.

To me, it's a superhero-like thing.

I would have given up a long time ago.

No, fuck y'all.

Go figure that shit out yourself, you know?

But all superheroes have a kryptonite.

- [Jane] Do you understand that you're being...

- Discrimination, downright rudeness.

- [Jane] Do you?

- [Participant] You're just saying statistics,

I'm sorry.

- [Jane] You're either going to cooperate

or you're going to leave.

- 2009 in England is

the last time she did the exercise.

- [Jane] That you are accustomed to using power

and that you don't understand.

- [Participant] You're abusing your power.

Do you understand what's going on here?

With television,

believe none of what you hear

and none of what you see

because it's all made up.

- Four decades of everything Jane has been through,

what her children have gone through,

by the time that show ends, she says,

"Why am I still doing this?

It's a shame you still bring me here to do these things."

[group chatters indistinctly]

- People make a stand. Now, I'm making a stand. Enough!

- [Todd] Jane had lost control.

[sad contemplative music]

- [Jane] My dad said, "Don't dwell on it.

You put your head up, your shoulders back,

and you walk through the day."

I have to refuse to dwell on

what I don't want to think about.

And this is my son.

Brian got cancer,

so I flew to Washington and I was with him

most of the time until he died.

It was just,

life isn't fair.

My father taught us how to handle grief.

When my little sister died,

he never talked about her.

We never said Anne after that.

And it would be probably more sensible for me

to just sit down and go to a counselor and have a good cry.

Well, I still wouldn't have Darald when I came home.

I still wouldn't have my son.

I don't have time to mourn.

I've got to get busy.

And that's what I do.

No sense in standing here.

[phone rings]

Hello?

I'm glad to hear from you.

- [Dianne] The students are being met

with opposition.

They are being targeted.

They are getting discouraged,

and I feel like we're going backwards right now.

- Well, damn it, I'll be there in 25 hours.

[airplane engine hums]

- [Journalist] Chaos erupting at a Temecula school district

meeting as audience members clash.

- [Journalist 2] Students and educators saying

they're becoming targets of intimidation

and bullying tactics.

[crowd chatters indistinctly]

- Every single day, there's a new incident.

- [Journalist] This viral clip is

taking center stage tonight.

- [Interviewee] And when I turn to my left,

all I see is this tall, white man standing over

this small, young Black girl.

- Brooklyn Anderson.

Black students at Chaparral spoke

during our last meeting about racist actions

they've experienced,

being called the N-word in the halls.

Students don't feel safe speaking out in public.

The students and staff supporting

the recall effort keep getting harassed.

- The opposition is a left-wing extremist group

and people need to really understand that.

[audience applauds]

- Black students received direct threats.

- The new school board requested to see my emails.

They wanted to know any email that had

Black Student Union,

school board members.

A hate group posted those emails,

my classroom number where I can be reached.

It made me feel like I'm not safe here.

- I want to thank you all for coming here

because they don't see us anymore.

They don't see the students there in mass numbers.

- Teachers are afraid to have

any discussion that may be

misinterpreted for fear of losing their job,

and the way students have been treated

for wanting to be heard has become a nightmare.

[dramatic music]

- [Tim Thompson] President Donald Trump's son,

Eric Trump,

is going to be in the Temecula Valley.

Why, you ask?

Some radical leftist teachers union members

and some radical leftist parents

in the Temecula Valley are

trying to recall Dr. Joseph Komrosky,

the president of the school board.

- If we don't stop it here on the school board,

we won't get to stop it at all.

The level of racism increased drastically.

Now, do I sound negative?

You're damn right I do.

I have lived too long to put up with this

or to pretend that it isn't happening.

It is happening, it has to be stopped.

[crowd applauds and cheers]

- [Crowd] USA, USA, USA.

[crowd applauds and cheers]

- The Inland Empire Family PAC was formed for one purpose,

and that is to get good, Christian conservatives

elected to school boards in Riverside County.

[crowd applauds and cheers]

- The greatest Republicans I've seen

in this country are right here.

[crowd applauds and cheers]

- We've got a whole lot of people in this country

who want to take you back to the 15th century.

- Look at education and what they've done.

They've weaponized all of those.

And that's why guys like him are incredible,

that's why the people in this room are incredible.

Joseph Komrosky.

[crowd applauds and cheers]

- The stage has been set.

The arena has been built.

This is our movement.

- You think this is a joke?

Call me in five years.

You're going to have the hardest job you have ever had.

We have got to teach

in a way that undoes what has been happening

in this country,

and you have to run your classroom

in such a way that every kid in that classroom feels

wanted

and appreciated

and loved,

not love.

Put your love where the sun doesn't shine.

Be given justice.

I'm not worried about love.

I loved my husband and my son.

And we lose them and we lose them young.

Take care of them, people,

because they aren't always going to be there

and you've lost something like half your body.

I don't want your sympathy.

I want you to realize that you don't live long.

What's going on?

- We want to say thank you, Ms. Elliott.

Thank you so much.

[audience applauds]

[distorted voices echo]

- [Jane] I couldn't see straight,

I couldn't walk straight.

I couldn't, nothing was right.

Everything was moving.

So I held onto the wall and I thought, "This is not good."

I think I had a transient ischemic attack,

precursor of a stroke.

- I don't want you

to continue to do this at the expense of your health.

There is going to come a time

where you just have to say no.

No.

As important as the message is,

it's not as important as having you around.

- That's what a whole lot of people would wish

that I would say.

This isn't my problem, I'm too old to deal with it.

I'm going to die anyway.

I'm just going to get ready to die.

I'm not ready to die.

I cannot accept this

as just being the way it's supposed to be.

I'm continuing to live

until the rest of us stand up and say,

"Wait a minute.

This cannot happen any longer."

[pensive music]

[dog barking]

- The level of harassment from the community,

from the school, you know,

people showing up at her job to harass her.

- They just attack.

It will be groups of adults coming at one child.

- This is an attack on the Black and Brown community.

There was a point where Genesis and I were like,

we should just stop.

- You take care of each other.

You take care of each other.

You make sure that you have a group, a support group,

and you let the community know

that you have a support group and it's going to grow.

No matter what they do to you,

what you're doing is right and you keep on doing it.

- You keep saying, "Fight, fight, fight."

I understand,

and me and everybody here understand that.

And we are fighting,

but it's like we're losing momentum.

It feels like our community has to suffer

for people to care.

- You're right.

You all play this game on a life or death basis

all day long.

Most pale-faced people,

as long as they keep their mouths shut

and maintain a low profile where race is concerned

or just agree with the status quo,

they aren't going to be bothered by anyone.

I know what we're doing.

I've been a party to it

and I've been an observer of it,

and I know how this works,

but let me tell you something.

There are some white people out there

that will be willing to listen to you

and to go along with you.

- You all are motivating me.

You all help me

to finally understand that yes,

I get tired and I want to give up,

but I can't.

You guys are a force to be reckoned with.

Just continue to keep that momentum.

You can't give up.

- [Jane] They don't have to love you.

- No.

- Love is overrated, people.

You don't have to be loved in order to be successful.

And if you depend on the love of somebody else

to make you successful,

you're going to fail.

That's not what it's all about.

What it's about is determination.

[crowd chants indistinctly]

- [Crowd] One, two, three, four,

kick K out the door.

One, two, three, four,

kick K out the door.

- [Journalist] Voters in Temecula are deciding

whether or not to recall

the controversial president of the city's school board,

Joseph Komrosky.

- You have to put a stop to this

and you put a stop to it at the local level

because if you don't stop it here,

it's going to spread throughout your county,

throughout your state,

and it's spreading throughout the country.

- This is being very closely watched

across the state and across the nation.

- We're definitely positive with the outlook

that we see right now.

- The community is speaking.

They support teachers.

- This isn't just about today.

This is about tomorrow

and next year and the next century.

[sirens blaring]

- [Journalist] Tomorrow, thousands of voters will

get to decide whether Dr. Joseph Komrosky

stays in office

or is ousted from the position.

- Many years ago,

my father watched the first film of the exercise.

When it was over, my father stood up

in his blue bib overalls,

and he took his red handkerchief

out of the back pocket of his pants.

He blew his nose, he wiped his eyes, and he said,

"I wish somebody had taught me that

when I was nine years old."

And after that point, you couldn't tell

a racist joke around my father.

After that, he would not tolerate the intolerable.

If my father at that age could change that way,

maybe I can change too.

[dark pensive music]

If I can go back,

if I could change it all,

I would have gotten my kids out of Riceville

right after I did the first exercise.

- Mom.

- I'm glad to see you.

I need for you to hear this.

I thought of writing a letter

to all of you which will help you to understand what I did,

even if you can't forgive me for doing it.

What happened to you at the hands of your peers,

your teachers, and the coaches in Riceville was

in reaction to me and what I had done,

not because of something lacking in you.

You've proven in the way you've lived

and why you are so accepting and appreciating

of those who are different from yourself.

- Okay.

- At that time, I thought the exercise was

causing that pain,

and it didn't occur to me that I was guilty of anything.

Sarah, you began to hate me

because of the blue-eyed/brown-eyed exercise.

You went through hell

and I probably didn't have the right

to put you through that.

I'm sorry.

- [Journalist] The yes votes to recall

Mr. Komrosky right now stand at about 56%.

[crowd cheers]

The no votes, around 44%.

[crowd chatters indistinctly]

- We did it, look, look.

There almost, almost.

800.

- [Journalist] Komrosky will be immediately removed

from the board once the votes are certified.

[crowd applauds and cheers]

- It just dawned on me that she's making a difference

in the areas where her children

and grandchildren live

because she wants that difference to take hold

where they are,

and that's important.

Wow, I never thought about that until just now.

- She will forget me before she'll forget

the lines of that exercise.

I understand, I know, I get it.

♪ Happy Birthday to you ♪

[Jane laughs]

But you know, she was fearless.

She did shit that nobody else did.

- We are so happy to have you here.

We, 90, listen, 90 years young, right?

- No, no, that's 90 years old.

- Ms. Elliott, you've inspired so many people.

I've watched your documentary and you are beastly.

I hope you will continue

inspiring people all over the world.

- Mom wanted to do something that would leave

the world a better place than it was

when she came into it.

She has done that,

and I admire the hell out of her for it.

- Thank you ever so, ever so much, okay?

You made me cry and I hope you're happy.

[gentle music]

Every year,

people are in town for their class reunion.

I haven't been for a long time.

[group chatters indistinctly]

Oh my God.

How are you?

- Long time, no see.

Been about 40 years, you know?

- Oh my God, you look so good.

She's a [indistinct].

[Jane laughs]

I can't tell you how much this means to me.

Do you know how, no, you don't know, but someday you will,

how wonderful it is to be with this group?

Do you realize that?

- You just think where we'd be

if we hadn't been in her class.

- Yeah, exactly.

- We needed her.

- The exercise changes how you deal with everyone, for me.

I've tried to instill in my children,

you can't just go along to get along.

You have to figure out where the line is at and stand up.

- You still remember it in a positive way.

- Jane's class,

that's why I think the way I do.

When I see people who are hurting people,

I think of me,

and I'd say, "No, you're not going to bring

that person down.

I've been through it."

- As our journeys took us in different directions,

it was really about how can we make the biggest difference?

You think of all the thousands of students

that she impacted,

then you start thinking about all the people they impacted.

- One person affects one person

and they affect another person.

It just flows like a river.

- Look at one, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight people.

We could change the world.

I'm serious about this.

Hey, hey, hey there, how are you?

- I have had some success, Jane.

- Good for you, what's happening, what's going on?

- We successfully recalled Joseph Komrosky.

- [Jane laughs] Fantastic.

You've done a really remarkable thing,

and you should be proud of yourselves,

and you should let everybody know

that somebody else gets on that board

and acts like a Christian nationalist,

we're going to get rid of them too.

This isn't the only one you're going to be confronted by.

- In November, because of a loophole in California law,

he can run again.

- Oh, so you have to go over

the whole thing all over again.

You have to get out there and keep on canvassing and.

- Protesting and then going door to door.

I really need to stay in the game.

I'm going to call you in November

and I'm going to tell you, yes, we did it.

- You need to be prepared to do it over

and over and over for the rest of your life.

[birds chirp]

- [Journalist] Many of us have seen what played out

in Temecula's school board meetings over the last year.

Teachers and allies launched what would be

the successful recall

of Temecula's conservative school board president,

Joseph Komrosky.

But after getting tossed out over the summer,

Komrosky launched a reelection campaign,

winning his seat back in a very close election.

[birds chirp]

- Now, here we go again.

Now, are you going to quit?

If you're tired, that's too bad.

Do I think this will ever end?

Yes, I do.

We have to continue to stand up and speak out.

- The status quo will remain unless we eradicate it.

- This could be an amazing country,

but we're cowards,

and Jane doesn't allow our cowardice to overcome us.

Once you encounter her,

you have to either do something and grow yourself

or just retreat into the bullshit

of knowing that I'm a liar.

- Jane's done her part.

She's carried the torch for many years.

Who's there to carry the torch after her?

- It's up to you.

- [Jane] You do the right thing.

If it's painful, if it's embarrassing,

if you lose friends, if your family gives up on you,

what the hell?

I'm still going to do what's right.

Dad said

he wished he'd learned this at the age of nine.

Now, if he could learn, you can learn.

Did we learn anything?

- [Person Off-Camera] Yep.

- What did you learn?

[funky music]

[funky music continues]

- You've been doing this for more than four decades.

- Yeah.

- What do you think people are going to say

the legacy of Jane Elliott is?

- Don't care.

- You must care.

- [Jane] Don't care. - You've been doing this

to change behavior and make the world a better place.

You must care.

- Don't care.

What people say about me is

of little importance to me.

Did I make a difference today?

Did I make a positive difference today

in the area of racism?

And that's what I want to do.

[gentle music]