The film talked about how a teacher explained color differences to her students. The task was to find match the color of their skin with the paint colors that the teacher had. Although many of the students were white, their color was not white. This helped students see that not everyone is the same color and that every person is unique. The moment that stuck in my mind was when one of the boys in the video got angry at another boy that had just joined the classroom because he said that he was white. He told him that he could not be white, no one in the classroom was white. When the young boy got introduced to the concept of skin color, he then found out that indeed he was not white, he was a blend of two colors, none of which was white. This is something that I always have present and will never forget. I want to be able to show my students that we are all unique and that we are all special in our own way. I want to be able to show them that we should not discriminate beacuse others say someone is one color. It is very difficult to find someone that is our exact color. In class we did an actvity trying to find our color with color pencils that were provided and not two people that I saw used the same colors. We all had our own unique blend of colors.
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