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A Lesson in Discrimination at Just 10 Years Old

Name: A Lesson in Discrimination at Just 10 Years Old
Uploaded: 2025-08-06T12:00:00+00:00
Duration: 42 s
Channel: Mick Hunt
Description: Mick Hunt recalls a 1970 school exercise that segregated kids by eye color, giving brown-eyed students harder work and extra homework. The principal's…

6 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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Mick Hunt recalls a 1970 school exercise that segregated kids by eye color, giving brown-eyed students harder work and extra homework. The principal's point: if you hate being judged for something you can't change, imagine what it's like for people judged by skin color.

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So when I was 10 years old. But we went to school one day and everybody with brown eyes had to stay after school, get extra homework, and got treated like shit. Everybody with blue eyes got to go home, got extra credit. Well, I've got hazel eyes. I'm like, hey, they're green. They're green. When I'm happy, they're like, no, no, you're in the Brown Eyed Kids. And it was a horrible week of existence. Like, it was just like, what the heck happened? Why are you being so mean to us and having all this work and picking up garbage? End of the week, the principal calls us in and said, how does it feel? He said, well, it's 1970. All the kids in our. In our community were white. It was Jewish and Italian pizza, pasta matza, right? But 1970, there's a lot of other cultural things going on. And he said, you know, you can't change the color of your eyes and look how bad it feels for people who can't change the color of their skin. And it was like, wow. So that was a pretty big aha moment.