Defining Race With Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott, an antiracist educator for over 50 years and is most known for her Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise. She's our guest on Communicate Like You Give A Damn this week to talk about the power of language leading to behavior in antiracism work. And, if you're familiar with Jane's work, you know she is a relentless educator and will share what she wants us to know and understand about the urgency of this work.
She talks about updating our language from 15th-century terms to divide people into Black and White to accurate terms that honor each other's humanity. This episode dives DEEP into the act of “othering” and identifying each other as just one race…human. She weaves in Evangelical Christianity and politics along with book banning and her version of CRT.
Even though she is experiencing being banned due to recent far-right activity, she is raw and doesn't hold back in this is part 1 of our conversation with Jane Elliott.
About The Guest:
It won't help much to be prepared to face Jane Elliott. This elderly woman will tear down any shield. Even we, the spectators in BLUE EYED, can't get rid of this feeling of uneasiness, embarrassment, anxiety and utterly helpless hatred when she starts keeping people down, humiliating them, deriding them, incapacitating them. No doubt about this: for three quarters of the time in this documentation Jane Elliott is the meanest, the lowest, the most detestful, the most hypocritical human being hell has ever spit back on earth. But she should be an example for all of us.
Find Jane Here:
About Kim:
Kim Clark (she/her) focuses her work on the communicator and content creator's role in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). She is the co-author of The Conscious Communicator: The fine art of not saying stupid sh*t, an Amazon #1 bestseller and the leading voice for DEI communications and social justice messaging for brands.
She speaks at conferences, writes custom workshops, writes inclusive communications guides, and consults with companies on all things related to diversity, equity, and inclusion communications. Kim is a member of the LGBTQ+ community, a cisgender woman, Native American (Muscogee Nation) and a mom of two kids with disabilities. These marginalized identities and the privileges that come with society seeing her as White motivate her daily for social change.
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