My head literally hurts
I just got done watching the first episode of black.white. My concensus is that I will never watch the show again because it's just frustrating. The show takes a black family and a white family and does both of their make-up and they become the opposite race. The problem is they use white people who think there is no racism in the world today and black people who think there is racism in everything. Now, obviously this was done for shock value. The thing that frustrated me is that they put each family in an "all white" or "all black" situation. For example the white black man was put in a bar in a "white neighborhood only" OF COURSE he's going to hear discrimination in that kind of setting becuase that kind of neighborhood is full of racist people, that's why the whole neighborhood is white. They put the black white girl in a slam poetry setting. They mostly focused on how that was an eye opening experience for her and didn't really focus on any kind of discrimination there. It just seemed like the whole show consisted of the white male saying the black male was seeing racism where it didn't exsist.(part of which I agreed with b/c the guy thought eVERYTHING happened becuase he was a black man) and the black man saying the white man didn't see it because he didn't want to.(which at some points I did agree with)
I would like to see the show put the black family who is pretending to be white put in an "all black" situation because I as a white person have recieved racism against me because I am a white person. and I'm not saying I experience the same thing as a black person - I am positive that they recieve WAY more racism that I ever have, I'm just saying that sometimes people look at me with dislike - and voice that dislike - because I'm white.
I just wish we could all grow up. We are all people regardless of our color, we are people with different cultures and different life experiences and we need to have respect for everyone. I want to be friends with someone because of who they are not because of what they look like.
I would like to see the show put the black family who is pretending to be white put in an "all black" situation because I as a white person have recieved racism against me because I am a white person. and I'm not saying I experience the same thing as a black person - I am positive that they recieve WAY more racism that I ever have, I'm just saying that sometimes people look at me with dislike - and voice that dislike - because I'm white.
I just wish we could all grow up. We are all people regardless of our color, we are people with different cultures and different life experiences and we need to have respect for everyone. I want to be friends with someone because of who they are not because of what they look like.