Seeing Race

Here is a link to a short YouTube video of an art exhibit where you turn on and off a light. As you switch the light off, everyone in the room appears to be in a black-and-white movie. This was a cool way to show that people could stop seeing race and instead realize that we are all human.  youtube.com


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