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Instructions: Watch videos and answer the corresponding questions. At least 150 words for each video response.
Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mcCLm_LwpE
Questions to answer for video 1:
1. How was the exercise that Elliott designed a response to the children’s question, “Why would anyone want to murder Martin Luther King?” Did the film provide an answer to the question? Can you answer the question?
2. What features did Elliott ascribe to the superior and inferior groups and how did those characteristics reflect stereotypes?
3. In the prison seminar, one of the white women asserts that all people face some kind of discrimination. Another woman challenges her, claiming that whites can’t really know what it’s like to face discrimination every minute of every day. What do you think?
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Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8&feature=youtu.be
Questions to answer for video 2:
1. What’s the underlying motive for the 13th amendment leaving a loophole for slave labor? Were you aware that the 13th Amendment still allows for some forms of slavery?
2. How do you think media and popular culture representations of Black Americans, particularly Black men, have contributed to a climate of white fear and anxiety? How has that affected tough-on-cri

me policies?
3. This film is full of statistics, many of them startling. Which statistic stood out to you the most? Why do you think this is? What will you do with this statistic?
Video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCSo2hZRcXk&list=PLvahqwMqN4M0GRkZY8WkLZMb6Z-W7qbLA&index=11
Questions to answer for video 3:
1. How would you describe “political culture”
2. Does the culture of politics limit access to women?
3. What can you do to change the culture of politics in our country?
4. Have you thought about getting involved in local or national politics?
5. Where are the now? Check out Cori Bush.
Video 4: https://www.pbs.org/video/unspoken-americas-native-american-boarding-schools-oobt1r/
Questions to answer for video 4:
1. What’s the underlying motive for the 13th amendment leaving a loophole for slave labor? Were you aware that the 13th Amendment still allows for some forms of slavery?
2. How do you think media and popular culture representations of Black Americans, particularly Black men, have contributed to a climate of white fear and anxiety? How has that affected tough-on-crime policies?
3. This film is full of statistics, many of them startling. Which statistic stood out to you the most? Why do you think this is? What will you do with this statistic?