MTV's ''White People'' Documentary

I'm not sure how people have seen it but it is available to stream here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zjj1PmJcRM on Youtube.

I have to say in the last couple of months I am disgusted with MTV's race baiting, which is all anti white. It is things like this that are stirring up tensions and keeping race issues alive. I believe racism is a big problem in the USA, but it should not be dealt with by trying to paint all white people as baddies who are born with ''white privilege'' that they should forever be guilty about and all other races as victims.

Although I had heard bad things about this documentary before watching it and to be honest the basic premise did not sit well with me. Imagine a documentary on Black people or Asian People done in the same way this documentary was done? (And it was done in such a way that basic facts were skewed or left out just to fit the agenda). On the other hand, I felt that it could possibly be a very good, honest documentary on race relations.

To be honest I was unable to finish it as it was making me angry. To give one example why:

A white student got very good grades and accepted into her dream university. She was unable to attend due to finances and being unable to obtain a scholarship but noticed there were many more scholarships available to non white students. And so her and mother very politely said it felt like discrimination that after working very hard, she was being denied opportunities due to her race when basically it should just be done to grades and hard work.

Then we are given figures and statistics to show why it is fair to exclude white people from scholarships.


We are told 96% of scholarships are available to white people These are available to EVERYONE regardless of skin colour, however we are just told they are available to white people in the documentary. They then ignore the fact that therefore 4% of all scholarships are basically racist, excluding people on the basis of their skin colour because according this documentary, excluding white people is ok

We are then told how 62% of students are white but they get 69% of scholarships available. This is used as a justification that white people are not at a disadvantage but are actually disproportionately getting more scholarships It completely ignores the fact that scholarships are given on merit. It never even mentions the fact that these scholarships are given on the basis of academics or athletic skill but makes it appear that white people are greedily and unfairly taking more scholarships from students of other races. It ignores the fact that they worked hard to get them, obviously harder than the students who were unsuccessful.

I dont know has anyone else seen this but I believe it is a very unhealthy dialogue about race in what could have been an excellent documentary. it is very biased, but an interesting watch. I may finish it later when I am less annoyed