Does the television show “Black. White.” perpetuate racism?
338507
oh hell no...they are trying to help different races understand one another.
504411
Racial discrimination exists and both socially and at workplace... \nThe following  is an episode featured on oprah's show that i myself had watched..\nDaniel, a barber from London, is one of few black men who actually knows what it's like to be white. Daniel conducted a radical race experiment. Through prostetics and makeup, he posed as a white man for three months.\n\n"I was invisible all of a sudden," Daniel says. "I walked down the streets of London, and people didn't watch what I was doing, where I was in location to them, where I was in location to their pocketbook or their car. The other difference I found is when I go to shops, that's when they did look at you. They put the change in your hand rather than slam it on the counter and look to the next person. There's a difference in interaction."\n\nAnother lesson Daniel learned was not to completely hold stock in his prejudices. In disguise as a white man, Daniel went to the dog races and chatted with a kind spectator. The man was someone whom normally Daniel would have judged to be a threat for a black man. When Daniel returned later as himself, the man treated him equally as kind.\n\n"It made me question myself," Daniel says. "I have to look about how I look at other people and how I judge a whole race or a whole group of people, and if I don't want them to do that to me, then I can't do that to them. It made me look the other way."
263516
Of course! Racism is not about a degree, it is about the color of your skin. Ignorant morons will always hate what they do not understand.
116645
This world is far from perfect.  BET exists because most TV shows are based around white people.
295171
inferiority complex ?\n\n(some whites make fun of blacks.  whats curious is why blacks making fun of whites is so accepted and promoted in pop culture)
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This show was a waste, of what would've been a social learning experience.\n\nThe white people are scripted and told what to say, just to add a shock value.\n\nThe black family are easily offended, no matter what anyone says (white or black) they can find offense in it.\n\nAnd the makeup, if people out there are really believing that the white family is black and the black family white, then they are fooled to easily.\n\nGood Riddance to this Show!
483125
People can be racist no matter what "color" they are, and to answer your question - yes and no. Racist people are racist no matter what happens. My mom is white, and my dad is black. My mom grew up in Minnesota and Iowa, and my dad was a Navy brat. They meet in Iowa at college, and had 5 kids after they married. After 9 years, they moved to Tampa, and we've been here ever since. At any given time, my parents can both "act white" or both "act black." They both love casseroles and collard greens. \nMy point in all of this is that PEOPLE love American Idol, and PEOPLE dislike American Idol. Even though it's stupid, hypocritical, and racist what the people are blogging, they're gonna keep doing it till they get their mind renewed. I hope that this helps your cause.
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It's kind of racist against whites, but it's not like there aren't shows on Adult Swim that aren't racist, Family Guy has been accused of Neo-Nazism because of its racism, so I guess the Boondocks is kind of "standing up" for the African-Americans.  Good balance for Adult Swim if you're thinking in terms of Ying & Yang.
861964
You have just pointed out and responded to one of the most popular and solicited questions of the century!  It goes to show you what kind of nation of people we are, and how really confused we can be. There really is no such thing as "acting black or white" - the reference is only made toward races when it seems each has somehow consumed and metamorphised the ways and actions of the other.  It's like saying that a person's character or personality has to be all or nothing....not true.  The accusation is what people try to limit each other to. No other race or culture of people display such silliness as we do.  You just do you,.
120024
No, because racism is something that stands because they are different. If something is different, you'll have a hard time understanding it, if you can't understand it, you won't like it. And society reinforces it in television and the such.
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Great question,\n      As an instructor on race and ethnicity at DePaul University, this question is asked all the time to me in my classes.   As you should know, American history is full of injustice, legal genocide, slavery, and many other horrid types of treatment of people.  In an attempt to make amens for such crimes against humanity, our government put many different programs into place, or insisted on an "affirmative action" to rectify these ills that have devastated entire generations of people. From this, came a societal change that fostered an environment that allowed for other cultures to express their interest's in the arts, sports, politics, music, etc.  \n    Just to let you know:\nThe NAACP is an organization created and supported by people of African decent, Jewish faith, and many other backgrounds. Though it was brought about to assist black people, white people helped make it happen.\n BET (Black Entertainment Television) is owned and operated by MTV networks. MTV is owned by AOL Time-Warner. AOL Time Warner is a white-owned corporation.\n\nWe cannot discuss this topic properly without first understanding that well over 90% of television programming is mainstream (predominantly white).   To conclude, no you are not a racist by being white. You WOULD be racist if you participated in racial bias, prejudice, or hate solely based on another individual's color or ethnicity.
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The only racism i see is the blacks expecting special privleges over whites.  And that is very common.  When do you think this racism will end?
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I gather you're also in the comedy business. Or at least in some profession that creates fantasies. There is no doubt in my mind that anti-black racism is huge problem in much of American society. You might be surprised to hear that your kind of position on it was fairly common even when there was active segregation and Jim Crow laws. Nobody seemed to be racist then either. Some just thought Martin Luther King was "moving too fast," or that "left-wing" agitators were "causing all the problems," and yet others were "sure" that blacks by and large were happy with their situation - and that "equal but separate didn't mean racism at all." \n\nI've worked for some of the most prestigious U.S. corporations, and I can guarantee you that racism is practiced in a myriad of subtle and not-so subtle ways. I have also watched as "white flight" changes the demographics (and value) of huge areas overnight. And that just covers jobs and housing.\n\nYes, progress has been made, very often against violent, even murderous resistance. But to say it's not there is self-serving wishful thinking. It's easy to point to the shrill nonsense of idiotic poverty-pimps and say, "See. They're just whiners and defenders of criminals!" etc. But when you do the research you will find the problem almost anywhere you care to look.
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BET serves no purpose except to annoy everybody. All they do is air music videos and reruns of other network shows. More blacks hate the network than anyone else. I can't name two black people that watch it.\nWhat it is doing it attracting the white urban youth, the ones who buy all the rap Cd's in the first place, and those idiots that like seeing black degraded in videos.\nAnd no it's not racist to have a network devoted to one race. You have to look at the big picture. When a white kid watches tv, they see themselves as president of USA, doctors and etc. Hispanic can view thier networks (Dallas, Texas has about 10 of them) and see the same thing. As for blacks-how many times have I seen black people getting arrest on cop shows? never around whites except for racism storylines (7th Heaven), playing sports, drinking, being debeat parents and calling the smart black nerd a sellout. The same black nerd, who is ALWAYS around white kids only (Craig Lamar Taylor on Malcolm in the Middle).\nIf you can convice a black kid that they can be something other than a criminal, our jails will not be 92% black filled. It's about encouragment and for many black kids that comes from tv adn not from thier fractured homes.
206014
i think it is a good show it show how a black person really has to deal with racism in everythng that they do. It also shows how easy the white people have it
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Of Course! Racism! Adversity, and even Self-Doubt.
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Although your question doesn't specify a lot of people just assumed that you meant whites being racist against blacks.  I beleive that that assumption is racist in itself.\n\nI am white and grew up in a primarliy Mexican community.  I can spend hours talking about the racsim I experienced at their hands.  \n\nThere are more reasons than can be answered here but one big one is that the media is so obsessed with the differences in groups instead of their similarities.  They are quick to point out an ethnicity or race when doing a news report.  They also only show one side to racism (whites against blacks) instead of all sides because it is politically correct to do so.  After hearing the same thing over and over you tend to believe it.  People then become distrusting of those that are different from them.  If the media left race alone people would get along better.\n\nAnother big reason is that activists (Nativo Lopez, Jesse Jackson, etc.) are so quick to scream racism at every perceived injustice.  This puts people off and causes them to not care about the other groups.  Hell, if I'm going to be called racist just for being white then why should I ever do anything to help anybody outside of my race (i.e. Hurricane Katrina)?  \n\nBasically I say quit pointing out the differences and everyone will get along better.