I was a senior in high school when this was first aired. I enjoyed watching all the CBS Schoolbreal specials and ABC Adterschool specials....they were great.
Me too. But I remember they came on like 3:30pm or something like that. So if you didn’t go straight home from school on what ever day it aired, you would miss it. I never remembered there being re-runs and for me, it was before VHS. So if you didn’t catch something on TV, you missed it.
Thanks for posting. This is the first time I've seen this since it first aired nearly 34 years ago. Amy saying that she wished she were white has remained etched in my memory all these decades.
It was so encouraging back then watching movies like this. My how the tide has changed in america! It's never been really good in america, but it seemed there was an effort for change and a better world. Now its reversed..
@@christinamarsh5388 The conversation is never over as long as there's people who will stand up to difficult times instead of wringing their hands, expecting someone else to step in or flat out, figuratively rolling over on their backs and giving up.
The media and others want division. Everytime things start getting better, there's some who start things up. Divide and conquer. I miss these kinds of movies. Better than the crap of today.
@@Andy-bl8ggTHIS 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 Don't be so quick to forget what the plans are! Divide & Conquer. We were in an excellent place 2 decades ago. What changed? STOP feeding into what the media says! The one party that has _ruined_ chances for a whole race to have a married 2 parent _home_ ! Now? It's multiple baby daddies, daddy's in jail, absent fathers! Who did this to you?! This is NORMAL TO YOU NOW when it is anything but normal!They divided & Conquered you all first! 😢 Get it back. Change their game. This cycle counts for the black people, the next will NOT. The next will be all about _those people_ who have zero respect for our countries. You will see how fast that team drops the black folks in favor of _them._ Let's make this cycle count. You know who they're scared of. That should give everyone a huge wake up call! Bless us all. United we stand.
This movie takes me back. I remember being in high school, adulthood around the corner but you still got to be a kid and felt so safe because you didn’t have real problems to deal with. You were still taken care of by your parents for food and shelter and sort of protection. Except I had a terrible home life with my mom, didn’t want to grow up too fast but wanted to get out of the house at same time. At my high school, ice skating and roller skating really wasn’t a thing in high school. It should have been. If you went roller skating, it was usually with a church group and you never saw anyone from your school unless they were with the same group. Wow, she was out till 1:30am after skating and pizza. I had like a midnight curfew and that was senior year. This would have been a great class for all seniors. I wish I had a class like this. No one ever explained anything like this to me. I don’t remember ever being taught how American Japanese were put behind bars in school. After 43 years, I finally understand why this one girl in school never liked me and was so mean to me. She was blue and I was orange in her eyes even though I was really a lower class green. And why another girl in high school , 34 years later, who I was never even friends with, treated me like dirt at the Place I worked at when I had to wait on her. She was also blue but not due to having a lot of money but popularity at school. She still hated me after 34 years and that she needed me, at that moment, to wait on her. She saw me as orange too or maybe green but she knew I’d never be blue in her eyes. Maybe I threatened her class becuz in high school she knew she was really green and our only difference was that she was let in by the popular crowd. She was Italian. making sense why some people don’t like me from day one no matter how nice I am to others. I never realized it was due to class. I remember someone at work telling me I’ve done nothing wrong, there are just going to be people who don’t like you from day one and he couldn’t explain it. It’s all making sense now. Who would think it happens in work place depending on your position, who wears nicer clothes, looks, has money, drives nicer car.
Wow I remember watching CBS School Break Special Years ago. 1985 my 10th Grade High School Teenage Lady Years 👩🏾 I had a huge crushed on Mr.Todd Hallowell. Fast forwarded to now in the 21st Century. The Color Game assignment would probably caused a School riot between everyone.
Try the documentary ""Eye of the Storm" where back in the late 60's jane Elliot did a test about "Brown eyed" and "Blue eyed" people. Caused an uproar at the time.
It would have to be on the streaming channels. If it isn't a courtroom show during the day or a cop, game or reality show at night regular TV won't be interested.
I saw this on TV when it came out,, but never read the book. I'd reference a lot of experiences to race and class to this show. I forgot the the name!! Thank goodness I stumbled across it.
I was born in 83 so, this would have taken place in the early 90s - 4th grade. Mrs. Dunn was my favorite teacher and so i was surprised when she decided to do something similar to this. But it left a lesson I won't soon forget. I grew up in an all white mostly Portuguese area. It wasn't racist just that it had been mostly settled by the Portuguese. Anyway Mrs. Dunn was we were going to do an experiment with our eye colors and that she would treat us according to eye color. I think blue eyes was the better off and brown was the worst. I have hazel eyes. I came in from recess very very thirsty. (This wasn't the 2000s believe it or not we didn't carry water bottles everywhere lol!) Anyway I asked to go get a drink and the teacher whom i loved simply said "what color are your eyes?" and when i agreed they were not blue, she said "no" or at least "no not now." (im sure she let me eventually. i dont think this sweet lady would have let a kid go thirsty all day) But, thats when i understood. A person does not have to be segregated for any logical reason...it's all just dumb stuff that people made up to decide who was better than whom and none of us are safe from being judged for our skin color, weight, gender or whatever the case may be.
did not like this download, this was edited, i watched this alot back in the '80s, i used to have it on a vhs tape, this was an afterschool special which were 1 hr programs, meaning the video should be around 45 min, just in the fist few mins i see things were cut out, this entire things was completely chopped up
Cannot get the longer version. Tapes were being pulled out of circulation and being dystroyed. This is the next best thing available due to the age of the tape/show
Calm tf down. He wasn't saying it to a black person, he was using the slang to show her that he has never used it. The plot goes on, of course, but we aren't talking about that. Frankly, I don't think that word should be used by anyone anymore. For some reason, blacks "own" that word but they give special permissions to others, Hispanics to use it as well. Are you so blinded that you don't see what's going on? Every song that comes out by black artists have the N word. Did you know they get paid more when they rap about gang life, thugs, bangers, "baby mommas", promiscuous lives and the chewy in the cake, the "N" word! Then, the songs are blaring in clubs to kids so far removed and they sing the "N" word. Well, why tf wouldn't they?! It's in blockbuster songs _all_ the time! Like, is this a joke? Then there's a video of them singing along & oh oh! They got "caught" and now have to apologize for singing along to a black man or women's song that has the N word all over it. The Black people have taken that word, changed the meaning and they've taken it mainstream! Do you understand this? At this point, a white kid using the word in a way like with his buddies, shouldn't shock anyone. It's most likely that his family never owned slaves to begin with! Though it was blacks selling black slaves. There were black slave owners! One of the cackling women's family owned several slaves! So, I don't think that she should EVER be allowed to say that word! Do you understand what they've done to a word that should've been shelved as a part of history and they've taken it's meaning away. Well, that's great, right? Should be, except when a white person sings the mainstream lyrics. 😂😂😂 I mean, this is a joke, right? Nobody owns a word. That word is disgusting to me, in the real meaning yet play me a tune & I'm singing along just like _EVERYBODY ELSE!_ Frankly, it's quite gross what they've done to that word. Then putting barriers up as to who can say it or sing it. Yet my ancestors never owned slaves! So, why can't I sing along? Hell, I wouldn't doubt if one of those rappers ancestors DID own slaves! So, you see. They took a very offensive word, they made it mainstream, they have no clue of their own history! So, we get the big, "smh" from you when it was used in the appropriate form of racist slang. It was said for the right purpose...a word we do NOT use! So keep your "smh's" to yourself. Actually, I would suggest you that people watch Candace Owen's on this topic. She touches on alot of it & says it all very well.
Very timely. Needed again in 2023.
Race relations were great in 1985.
I was a senior in high school when this was first aired. I enjoyed watching all the CBS Schoolbreal specials and ABC Adterschool specials....they were great.
Me too. But I remember they came on like 3:30pm or something like that. So if you didn’t go straight home from school on what ever day it aired, you would miss it. I never remembered there being re-runs and for me, it was before VHS. So if you didn’t catch something on TV, you missed it.
They should have made This into an actual full length movie!
Thanks for posting. This is the first time I've seen this since it first aired nearly 34 years ago. Amy saying that she wished she were white has remained etched in my memory all these decades.
Welcome
I loved this book growing up. As a teacher and with all the things going on, I am reading this book again.
Kids need to watch this in 2024. Asap.
I've been looking for this, thank you for posting
It was so encouraging back then watching movies like this. My how the tide has changed in america! It's never been really good in america, but it seemed there was an effort for change and a better world. Now its reversed..
Very similar to The Wave, in fact I had often confused the two
I remember watching The Wave in 12th grade Civics. This film was a year after I left school.
Me too
And now our country has lost its way again
I cannot say that we ever found it from my perspective, but at least we were working on it and now the conversation is over.
@@christinamarsh5388 The conversation is never over as long as there's people who will stand up to difficult times instead of wringing their hands, expecting someone else to step in or flat out, figuratively rolling over on their backs and giving up.
@@jenniferwilcox9759 Thank you.
The media and others want division. Everytime things start getting better, there's some who start things up. Divide and conquer. I miss these kinds of movies. Better than the crap of today.
@@Andy-bl8ggTHIS 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 Don't be so quick to forget what the plans are!
Divide & Conquer.
We were in an excellent place 2 decades ago. What changed?
STOP feeding into what the media says! The one party that has _ruined_ chances for a whole race to have a married 2 parent _home_ ! Now? It's multiple baby daddies, daddy's in jail, absent fathers! Who did this to you?! This is NORMAL TO YOU NOW when it is anything but normal!They divided & Conquered you all first! 😢
Get it back. Change their game. This cycle counts for the black people, the next will NOT. The next will be all about _those people_ who have zero respect for our countries. You will see how fast that team drops the black folks in favor of _them._
Let's make this cycle count. You know who they're scared of. That should give everyone a huge wake up call!
Bless us all.
United we stand.
And there will always be those two at the end stirring up trouble for all
Notice both of them left. Walked away.
I never read the book , but I remember watching this as a kid , I always got it confused with' the d ay the senior class got .married '
Can you imagine saying those slangs now? You have to work on prejudice but you can't sweep it under the rug like it don't exist either.
This helped me with my schoolwork so much because I didn’t need to buy the book or read it saved me so much time
for what class?
This movie takes me back. I remember being in high school, adulthood around the corner but you still got to be a kid and felt so safe because you didn’t have real problems to deal with. You were still taken care of by your parents for food and shelter and sort of protection. Except I had a terrible home life with my mom, didn’t want to grow up too fast but wanted to get out of the house at same time. At my high school, ice skating and roller skating really wasn’t a thing in high school. It should have been. If you went roller skating, it was usually with a church group and you never saw anyone from your school unless they were with the same group. Wow, she was out till 1:30am after skating and pizza. I had like a midnight curfew and that was senior year. This would have been a great class for all seniors. I wish I had a class like this. No one ever explained anything like this to me. I don’t remember ever being taught how American Japanese were put behind bars in school. After 43 years, I finally understand why this one girl in school never liked me and was so mean to me. She was blue and I was orange in her eyes even though I was really a lower class green. And why another girl in high school , 34 years later, who I was never even friends with, treated me like dirt at the Place I worked at when I had to wait on her. She was also blue but not due to having a lot of money but popularity at school. She still hated me after 34 years and that she needed me, at that moment, to wait on her. She saw me as orange too or maybe green but she knew I’d never be blue in her eyes. Maybe I threatened her class becuz in high school she knew she was really green and our only difference was that she was let in by the popular crowd. She was Italian. making sense why some people don’t like me from day one no matter how nice I am to others. I never realized it was due to class. I remember someone at work telling me I’ve done nothing wrong, there are just going to be people who don’t like you from day one and he couldn’t explain it. It’s all making sense now. Who would think it happens in work place depending on your position, who wears nicer clothes, looks, has money, drives nicer car.
Wow I remember watching CBS School Break Special Years ago. 1985 my 10th Grade High School Teenage Lady Years 👩🏾 I had a huge crushed on Mr.Todd Hallowell. Fast forwarded to now in the 21st Century. The Color Game assignment would probably caused a School riot between everyone.
Try the documentary ""Eye of the Storm" where back in the late 60's jane Elliot did a test about "Brown eyed" and "Blue eyed" people. Caused an uproar at the time.
I'm waiting to see if they make this into a movie today.....
They need too 💯
Good luck. It would be cancelled by the idiots that get butthurt from the truth about society in America..
It would have to be on the streaming channels. If it isn't a courtroom show during the day or a cop, game or reality show at night regular TV won't be interested.
Am I the only person who read the book this short film is based on?
I saw this on TV when it came out,, but never read the book. I'd reference a lot of experiences to race and class to this show. I forgot the the name!! Thank goodness I stumbled across it.
I did over 30 years ago.
@@dragonbat2006 GJ ;)
I‘m reading it for english class as a german that’s how I landed here
@@soja0449 same
This book was great.
Halt die fresse
Paul Winfield! sick, he's the best
Great actor
Hatte es in Englischunterricht. Fands richtig Scheiße
I was born in 83 so, this would have taken place in the early 90s - 4th grade. Mrs. Dunn was my favorite teacher and so i was surprised when she decided to do something similar to this. But it left a lesson I won't soon forget. I grew up in an all white mostly Portuguese area. It wasn't racist just that it had been mostly settled by the Portuguese. Anyway Mrs. Dunn was we were going to do an experiment with our eye colors and that she would treat us according to eye color. I think blue eyes was the better off and brown was the worst. I have hazel eyes. I came in from recess very very thirsty. (This wasn't the 2000s believe it or not we didn't carry water bottles everywhere lol!) Anyway I asked to go get a drink and the teacher whom i loved simply said "what color are your eyes?" and when i agreed they were not blue, she said "no" or at least "no not now." (im sure she let me eventually. i dont think this sweet lady would have let a kid go thirsty all day) But, thats when i understood. A person does not have to be segregated for any logical reason...it's all just dumb stuff that people made up to decide who was better than whom and none of us are safe from being judged for our skin color, weight, gender or whatever the case may be.
did not like this download, this was edited, i watched this alot back in the '80s, i used to have it on a vhs tape, this was an afterschool special which were 1 hr programs, meaning the video should be around 45 min, just in the fist few mins i see things were cut out, this entire things was completely chopped up
Cannot get the longer version. Tapes were being pulled out of circulation and being dystroyed. This is the next best thing available due to the age of the tape/show
@@pressmin oh okay, understandable, i know alot about that, SUCKS when they do that
Sometimes you can find these hidden gems as VHSs and DVDs in Goodwill or discount/antique stores.
And i remember the teacher from years later on Another World
7:35 😕😐👀 what in the Jerry curl?! 😐
Rembrandt :0
Rip Paul ❤#DisneyDiva ❤
Hello was this special a part of the ``NBC Special Treat'' anthology series?
This is a CBS school break special from 1985.
I would refuse to take part in the "exercise".
So would I
Victim mentality is ageless.
People like you are the problem with our country.
Victim mentality is rampant in the White Christian cult.
Der kommt ganz gefährlich vertraut mir digga
Experience like that n real life with a teacher with kids wearing collar n something with blue eyes n brown eyes kids n they were all white kids.
Not him talking to man that lady who heck he think he is..
Not him saying the N word smh
Calm tf down. He wasn't saying it to a black person, he was using the slang to show her that he has never used it. The plot goes on, of course, but we aren't talking about that.
Frankly, I don't think that word should be used by anyone anymore. For some reason, blacks "own" that word but they give special permissions to others, Hispanics to use it as well.
Are you so blinded that you don't see what's going on? Every song that comes out by black artists have the N word. Did you know they get paid more when they rap about gang life, thugs, bangers, "baby mommas", promiscuous lives and the chewy in the cake, the "N" word!
Then, the songs are blaring in clubs to kids so far removed and they sing the "N" word. Well, why tf wouldn't they?! It's in blockbuster songs _all_ the time! Like, is this a joke?
Then there's a video of them singing along & oh oh! They got "caught" and now have to apologize for singing along to a black man or women's song that has the N word all over it. The Black people have taken that word, changed the meaning and they've taken it mainstream! Do you understand this?
At this point, a white kid using the word in a way like with his buddies, shouldn't shock anyone.
It's most likely that his family never owned slaves to begin with!
Though it was blacks selling black slaves. There were black slave owners! One of the cackling women's family owned several slaves! So, I don't think that she should EVER be allowed to say that word!
Do you understand what they've done to a word that should've been shelved as a part of history and they've taken it's meaning away.
Well, that's great, right? Should be, except when a white person sings the mainstream lyrics. 😂😂😂 I mean, this is a joke, right?
Nobody owns a word.
That word is disgusting to me, in the real meaning yet play me a tune & I'm singing along just like _EVERYBODY ELSE!_
Frankly, it's quite gross what they've done to that word. Then putting barriers up as to who can say it or sing it. Yet my ancestors never owned slaves! So, why can't I sing along? Hell, I wouldn't doubt if one of those rappers ancestors DID own slaves!
So, you see. They took a very offensive word, they made it mainstream, they have no clue of their own history!
So, we get the big, "smh" from you when it was used in the appropriate form of racist slang. It was said for the right purpose...a word we do NOT use! So keep your "smh's" to yourself.
Actually, I would suggest you that people watch Candace Owen's on this topic. She touches on alot of it & says it all very well.