00:01Now, you folks see any differences here?
00:06Do you see any differences here?
00:08It's a perfectly logical question, do you?
00:10What's the first one you notice?
00:13What?
00:13Sex.
00:14Sex. Is sex important to you?
00:16Let me put that another way.
00:20Let me put that another way.
00:21Is it important to you that you're male?
00:24Yes.
00:24Yes. Why?
00:26So strong, powerful.
00:28Your gender is important to you?
00:29Yes.
00:29Do you want to be seen as a male?
00:31Yes.
00:32Yes.
00:35Has anybody ever said to you, when I see you, I don't see you male?
00:38No.
00:39Has anybody ever said to you, when I see you, I don't see you black?
00:42Yes.
00:43Yes.
00:44Is your color important to you?
00:45Very important.
00:46It is who I am.
00:47It is who you are.
00:49People don't deny differences.
00:51Accept them, appreciate them, recognize them, and cherish them.
00:56They are extremely important.
00:59They are extremely important.
01:24You sit here.
01:26You sit here.
01:31Go into that room right there, and stay there until I come for you.
01:34I'm trying to get the people who participate in this exercise the opportunity to find out how it feels to
01:41be something other than white in this society.
01:44It didn't take very long before intimidation set in and before my buttons were pushed.
01:50Your hand is still up.
01:52You still didn't learn anything, did you?
01:53Didn't I just say, when your hand is up, you are thinking of what you're going to say instead of
01:58what's being said?
01:59Didn't I just say that?
02:00Yes, you did.
02:01And did you hear that?
02:02Yes, I did.
02:02And did you decide that you were just going to do it your way?
02:06I was listening.
02:07Wait a minute.
02:07You were on a roll there for me.
02:08Yes, I did.
02:08Thank you very much.
02:09Yes, I did.
02:10Now, since you choose to not listen to others, what do you suppose we're going to do where you're concerned?
02:18No, listen to me.
02:19Thank you very much.
02:20Every time I do the exercise, there is a point at which I know I have made the point.
02:26And we could stop there.
02:28But you have to nail it down.
02:29And so it goes on longer than some people think it should.
02:32But you have to nail it down.
02:34Can I finish what I'm saying?
02:35No.
02:36Because you're still thinking what you're going to say instead of what I'm saying.
02:38Now, getting right along.
02:41I heard what you were saying.
02:42You're doing it again.
02:43I understand what you were saying.
02:44You're doing it again.
02:45You're doing it again.
02:45I don't care.
02:46You're doing it again.
02:47Because it's wrong.
02:47You're doing it again.
02:48You persecuted her for standing out.
02:50You're doing it again.
02:51You persecuted him for standing out.
02:52The only change that ever happens is when people stand out and I upset my dog.
02:59Martin Luther King Jr. was shot.
03:00Are you in any physical danger here?
03:04Are you in any physical danger here?
03:08Is that girl in any physical danger here?
03:12Emmett Till was hanged by his neck after he was beaten almost to death.
03:17Simply because he said, made a statement to a white woman.
03:21What are you crying about?
03:22Sorry.
03:23What are you crying about?
03:24My feelings hurt.
03:25How are your feelings hurt?
03:27Just hurt.
03:29Should I feel sorry for her?
03:31I don't expect you to.
03:33These people, they felt like it was somewhat traumatic and I'm thinking, how is this so traumatic
03:39when they weren't cursed, nobody was throwing anything at them, they weren't hit.
03:44They were just getting upset over minor stuff that happens to us every day, but they don't realize it.
03:52When am I going to quit?
03:54When racists quit?
03:57Do I have a job for a lifetime?
03:59I'm afraid so.
04:01Every experience you have is an opportunity to see yourself in a new way.
04:05And if you close your mind to that, if you say, I didn't learn anything from this experience,
04:10then I say, sucks to be you.
04:18That's what I saw.
04:22You're right.
04:24You're right.
04:25And I'll see you in a while.
04:31There's a lot of fun going on in a week.
04:35Anyway, thanks, guys.
04:36Just look.
04:36You say you're like.
04:40You're like, oh.
04:40I don't know what's going on in a new life.
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