The best way I've heard of to train people to not be racist is Jane Elliott's "Blue eyes–Brown eyes" exercise[1][2]. Some things have to be personally experienc

The best way I've heard of to train people to not be racist is Jane Elliott's "Blue eyes–Brown eyes" exercise[1][2]. Some things have to be personally experienced, so this exercise uses eye-color as a proxy for race. Carefully guided by the teacher, elementary school kids fall immediately into tribal in-group/out-group behavior. With just a few comments from the teacher, the kids invent their own reasons why their {blue,brown}-eyed classmates must be "inferior". When asked twenty years later, most of the students specifically remembered the lesson and credited it as an important foundation for their later development. [1] http://www.janeelliott.com/ http://www.janeelliott.com/ [2] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/class-divided/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/class-divided/