(Fayetteville, N.C.) – The Fayetteville-Cumberland Human Relations Department and local partnering agencies will host a community dialogue with the renowned Jane Elliott, internationally acclaimed teacher and diversity trainer to discuss race in the U.S. This free public event will be hosted at Methodist University in the Huff Concert Hall, 5400 Ramsey St. on Nov. 14 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Attendees are encouraged to RSVP by Nov. 10 at Bit.ly/479YVLZ and email their questions for Elliott to sheila.cuffee@yahoo.com no later than Nov. 13.
Jane Elliott is known for The Blue Eyes and Brown Eyes Exercise as a response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This exercise labels participants as inferior or superior based solely upon the color of their eyes and exposes them to the experience of being a minority. Elliott, a recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, exposes prejudice and bigotry as an irrational class system based upon arbitrary factors.
Community Conversations is a partnership that consists of Fayetteville-Cumberland Human Relations, Greater Fayetteville United, Organizing Against Racism (OAR), and National Organization for Women (NOW). Together, they bring topics of interest that create safe spaces for our community to discuss.
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