Special to The Herald-Times

"You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late,

Before you are six or seven or eight,

To hate all the people your relatives hate —

You’ve got to be carefully taught."

Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan wrote the musical "South Pacific" (Broadway premiere1949), and it may be that activist and educator Jane Elliott would agree with them on how humans acquire prejudice.

Resilience Productions' play "Contrast and Color: Jane Elliott’s Lasting Impressions" comes to the Monroe County History Center for performances Oct. 2-5 to share with Bloomington area audiences about Elliott and her exercise to educate youth about discrimination.

In "South Pacific," Nellie, who is white, exhibits her racism upon learning that her French sweetheart has fa

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