The Modern Racist Paradigm

I tell people all the time to stop watching television, and mainstream media because it brainwashes you. Most people look at me like I’m completely insane. Some even laugh. It’s as if Hollywood has prepared us for war against the Middle East for years or maybe it’s the attitude in Hollywood that caused the US to villify them.

People forget or are unaware our goverment did business with Arabs and supported them militarily for years. I love that part about “you dare to call us terrorists?!”…Exactly They must see the US as terrorists.

im calling bs.

no one considers why these kids might pick a white doll. if they live in a predominantly black neighborhood in america they have probably already been exposed to gang violence. thats nurture.

nature shows that african blacks were the first humans. it makes perfect sense that there would be more of an attraction to variants of human that developed later.

Dnyce721

im assuming you meant ‘psychological effects’ not ‘sicological affects’

i called bs because this docs main sources are stuff some nobody said on some website because he/she felt black people are put upon. its a biased work with no credibility.

LOL, of course most of the media in white mjority countries is aimed at white people…

Im not saying that Whites are supperior, just that it’s a natural occurrence for the majority ethnicity to be represented a lot more in the media.

Okay seriously, i didn’t watch it before i commented, but from watching half of it, im also gonna call ********.

That text you see popping up has already made an oppinion about the issue.

I agree, kaz. This documentary would have been far more powerful if it was better researched and less opinionated. The basic message is entirely true, but it comes off sounding just as racist as the media when it starts talking about Zionism. The narrator inserts some comments that are entirely biased and not very well-thought out. The film itself would have been easier to watch if it had consisted of more clips and less quotes (and better quotes!).

And to AJ, “you give blacks your finger and they want your whole hand,” ..c’mon, seriously? Black people aren’t asking for white people to give them anything except the same recognition and respect as everyone else. If they want your hand it’s only because they can’t use their own in a society where white hands are ‘better’ than black hands. It has nothing to do with what you give them, what color their skin is, what ethnicity they come from; it has everything to with human decency and the right to life and the pursuit of happiness.

Well 1st of all, this movie is about everything what is trying to be opposed. Yes its about racism against white people. If you say I am proud to be black its ok…but if you say I am proud to be white then you are rasist?! I am for equal rights for ANYONE /black, white, yellow or whatever the color of their skin is/. We all are humas and we all deserve same opportunity. If some people think that they are not being treated as equal as others…speak up. But NO in aggresive way. DONT attack other races. Because result will be catastrophic.

And quotes are … well can you imagine that word black is change for white and vice versa? Damn this movie wont be allowed to be seen anywhere but on clucluxclan parties. In case this movie was aimed against black people in a same way as it is now aimed against white people…I /as a white male/ would be totally and strictly against such a terrible and dangerous thoughts. So try to think before you start to hate someone just because his skin is different. Its sad that we have this problem in 21st century.

Just saw the rest of the documentary, ummmm. The part about arabs isnt entirely correct. While I do agree that arabs are not fairly portrayed in the media, many of them do in fact treat their women badly and hate jews. And in back to the future, you have to remember that this was during a time in history of USA after the iran crisis. Anyway this documentary is mixed. I like parts of it and hate other parts. Its still very biased. But I like the first part of it where they spoke in favor of people embracing their culture and enough with trying to be white.

Its possible to like a part of something and agree with a part of something, while not with the entire thing. I give it a 5/10.

Complete garbage film, extremley biased and pretty much just another example of riding the gravytrain of victimhood.

A thought provoking documentary which would have been much better had the makers made two different documentaries with one being about how the media has created a feeling of inferiority within the minds of non whites and the second about Hollywood’s vilification of the Arab people.

Living in Asia (Japan, China and Korea) as I have been for the last 10 years it saddens me to see beautiful Asia woman putting on so much **** on their faces so they can look whiter, and getting surgery to make their eyes bigger and noses higher.

Although it has already been commented, this does documentary has its faults and the makers could have done a better job by leaving out their ‘racist’ Zionist comments.

That being said, the point made about the idea of beauty created and perpetuated by the white media is true and it really has messed up the minds of so many people who do not even know it.

Living in Asia I can see that Asians have an inferiority complex towards whites thinking them to be more attractive than their own people; why? It is simply because they see white images on all the covers of glossy magazines and in the leading roles in the top Hollywood movies and associate them with rich, glamorous and successful.

What this does to a non white person’s self esteem is unimaginable. I have a young attractive friend who thinks she is unattractive who will soon have surgery to alter her entire face shape. It could kill her but she is prepare to take that risk; why? Because she has been brainwashed like so many others believing that only by having surgery can she make it and be successful in her own country (South Korea) where people are often judged by their external appearance.

We need more documentaries where people can see how they’ve been conditioned by the media who always have a certain agenda, so that people can learn to think for themselves and not just reflect the views of what society is telling them.

Although this documentary has many faults, but well done to the makers, for it is a needed step in the right direction for non white people to wake up and see their own beauty and not have their people, nor their beauty defined by another culture or ethnic group.

Just how for has Africa come to becoming a world power. they ve had a chance just like every other nation. Eygpt is in africa. what happened did they give up and say let the white run it for awhile.

@chocolateQueen: I feel sorry for you. Your argument is weak and illogical and the video thesis validates your internalized self-hatred not only for yourself, but also for your own people who speak truth.

Your response is the typical response from blacks you seek to defend the white supremacy agenda. You cannot help yourself; you love the master and their children. I feel sorry for you because you refuse to come to terms that you have been programmed, brainwashed; the Willie Lynch Chip is in full affect mode.

It is obvious; you have no real knowledge of yourself and are asleep. The truth is in the breaking of the enslaved African they were program in the interest of the white European’s agenda. We were a product/commodity. They took away our natural essence (Being) as a people. European settlers and the framers of this United States of America away our language, our history, culture, and destroyed our family structure. Created African enslaved men into studs, raped and killed them, changed our names to European names, told us we were nothing but animals beneath them; committed horrible acts against enslaved Africans. They terrorized us to no end after emancipation and created a judicial system to lock African-American black men up, by doing this, they were not allowing them to take care of their family and keep them in a perpetual state of slavery. This has had a detrimental impact and effect or our sustainability as a culture. To this day, most white people have an internalized hatred for us and do not see us as citizens of this country no matter that we now have an African-America President. Can you not see that? Moreover, its effects and still be felt today, just internalized. Can you not see that the way you act, think, and behave is not you? You think, behave, etc. the way you do because they have programmed you to think their way. Therefore, your attempt to call me a racist has no validity what so ever. You are in a perpetual stupor and will continue to be ****** and ignorant until you wake up. You have been ‘blinded, bamboozled, hood-winked, lied to, program to the white man, woman, and child’s agenda’(Malcolm X) my sister, wake up, and free your mind.

P.S. Check out some of Dr. Ray Hagins videos. You can start with “How to deactivate your Willie Lynch Chip”.

Ms. Oglesby

Of course whites are to blame for all the injustice happening around, for they dictate and still do dictate the lives of colored’s for their existence in this planet. which they think is part of evolution.
All around Whites have twisted the other peoples culture and history through their mass media… picturing us as evil.
Surely the black man is trying to survive too -gang war style just as the whites introduce to them. and this seems to be a problems for the whites now. their is a saying “if you point a finger it will point back to you”.
look at your plate white man and see what you eat everything planted by other cultures, even your god is imported. know yourself man.
Remember we the colored’s had and still do have Our own faiths and beliefs so we give time for Karma to solve matters in this kaliyuga times. You say we are ignorant!!! no man the only thing u keep us at bay is with your Hiroshima bombs. but OUR glories time shall arrive…….and on that day you will learn about real love from us just as you have learned all other things for your survival from our ancient cultures upto now. for the sun, moon and all the elements will be witness, and shall hale the rise of black man……to his original place in this living mother earth.
Then you will say sorry man and sure will forgive you for you are the ignorant seed.

@lunda
Of course you’re not ignorant. You personally are even superior. Especially your spelling, ‘man’.

@white and proud: Yes, your European ancestors are to blame for the ills of this African-American society here in the United States of America. Trying to invalidate the feelings of African-American and their experience is an autrocity. Trying to use reverse psychology on African-Americans and other non-white people, will not work, especially with me. White people did some horrific things to enslaved African’s and you think that we African-American’s can generationally get over what has been done to us? Have the Jews gotten over what Hitler did to them? This country broke the backs of enslaved African who built this country built country you you are saying get over it? Our ancestors and the generations preceeding them have endured psychologial trama. It will take years to reverse the damage that has been done to us. Of course I don’t expect you to understand, because it is your people who inflicted this pain and suffering that we have experienced for the last 5 to 6 hundred years and still continue to experience indirectly.

@X: I just simply speak my mind. That is what everyone else does when they recognize the conscious truth.

The scienific experiments seems to have confounds, but difficult to determine without analysis,just because it makes it into a journal does not mean it is entirely correct.

Bottomline: Media teaches you to hate yourself.
Doesn’t matter if you are white, black, yellow, red, male, female, a child, a family, a homosexual, or an animal you will be stereotyped.
Movies are reproduced regurgitated stories where only the actors and locations change, the plot stays the same.
The consumer drives the market. The target market is the youth.
What makes money in the world market is violence, drugs, and sex. Drives the whole Industry.
The Canadian Film Industry/CBC recognizes this and promotes Canadian content for this reason, problem is they always have to beg for funding.
High Art rarely hits the air, nor do foreign films, especially if they have subtitleing.
What people consider “Beautiful” changes every decade!
Even Hitler’s Officer proclaimed “Tell a lie repeatedly and it becomes Truth” not an exact quotation but you get my drift. It is more dangerous than subliminal messaging.
So now you know propaganda is dangerous, so be more particlular about what you choose to support financially.
I am sad that the discussion went from making you aware of a problem to you attacking each other, obviously more personal growth needs to take place.

It is obvious from reading the comments that we are all affected by race issues, in some way or other, and likely to no fault of our own. I couldn’t tell from watching the documentary what race the maker was, and I didn’t read the summary. I would have appreciated more statistics or even knowing why the children thought what they did; I did appreciate that this film did not focus on black/white issues along-several races were discussed/featured in the presentation, but for me that is neither here nor there.

This documentary made me cry. It touched me very deeply. DH & I plan to try for children next year and he cannot understand my objection to dolls for little girls. I told him I never want my child to feel inferior based on her appearance and I think dolls contribute to this. The doll tests in this video struck a nerve with me. My mother is mixed and my father is black. My sister had a mixed father and I was constantly reminded as a child that I was not light enough, like my mother and sister. I was in college before I realized that I was not dark skinned (I was nicknamed Red). This abuse, however, did not come from white people. It came from black people who thought that white was better. I was doubly critisized for not having a big butt, which is another stereotype a black woman may be made to suffer. As a adult, I unfortunately still battle these demons and I would hate to pass them on to my children.

There are many other stereotypes that many women & men suffer, regardless of race. Yet we all bleed the same. I think the best lesson ALL can learn from this documentary is self-love, self-respect, respect of others and the self-assurance that ALL of God’s children are beautiful. That is certainly what I will take away from it.

@Kay and Karen: The reason this video was posted was to create dialog on the topic of racism, hence the title “The Modern Racist Paradigm”.

This video touches on the effects of White Supremacy. How the effects have for centuries impacted and affected African’s and many other cultures and races outside of European’s (whites).

What you the two of you fail to realize is the severe psychological impact of White Supremacy in African culture/race has had for centuries. What fustrates me is that often times people, like you two, offer no help, but to accuse blacks in creating streotypes, etc. without critical analysis or critical reflection of White Supremacy in this society as a whole. It would behove you to read Dr. Welsing, Dr. Bobby E. Wright, Dr. Amos N. Wilson, and others have asserted that the psychology behind this needs to be analyzed instead of analyzing the effects or symptoms of the White Supremacist cause. For example, an abuser asks his victim why the victim is abused and how did they get those bruses, etc., it must of been because you tripped and feel, when all along the abuser is the one who caused the bruses on the victim in the first place. To negate the cause is to negate a effect thus no solution is created to change the behvior of the abuser nor the behavior of the victim and therefore the abuse continues on the part of the abuser psychologically and physically towards African-Americans and other peoples of color. One must look at why White Supremacy exists in the first place.

African-Americans are the way they are because of the effect psychological trauma, brought about by centuries of terrorism from the Klu Klux Klan, marginalization from society in all areas of finance, media, education, healthcare, etc. However, this issue is really much deeper as Dr. Frances C. Welsing and others state infatically that White Supremacy exits as a means of genetic survival since they came from the Caucus Mountains after the glacier period some 3-6ooo years ago. Mind you African culture and societies raigned for hundreds of thousands of years before the appearance of Indo-Europeans ever existed.

My point as stated above is that before true change can occur, one must analyze the cause first; cause equals effect. Yes, today, there are a lot of issues plagues all races, but how do you think it got this way? What happen to the native Indian race? Why do we have boarders in this country or other countries for that matter? Why is there hatred between Israel/Palestine? Why is ALL of Africa divided amonst European countries and no African owns any part of Africa!! Yet, these European countries are sucking Africa dry for gold, diamond, oil; all of their natural resources and not one African own a percentage over 85%?????

I think this doc could have had lots of potential but I don’t think it was well done. It was just an assemblage of clips and minuscule font paragraphs that I got tired of reading. However I do very much agree with the points made in the film: the white-male dominance of pretty much everything related to media, business and politics, the whole notion that white beauty is presented as being superior and the damaging stereotypes made in film… I believe the portrayal of arabs to be particularily worrying because no one wants to defend their culture right now. The media is continuing to engrave this gun-loving, western/jew-hating into the minds of the people and is contributing to escalating violence, fear and muslimaphobia… tragic.
the part of the film that got to me the most was that woman speaker at the end. Her voice and message was very powerful. Makes me feel guilty for being white… I know i make small judgments based on race and I am so ashamed…

To address white and proud;

You said “do whites perpetuate gang violence among blacks? no.”

If you look at crime statistics, incarceration rates of adult black American males and many other social factors, you would come to a different conclusion. By simplifying the issues, you can yield a simple answer. I suspect you have never much investigated these issues, i would encourage you to.

For example, in 1926, 12% of US population was black, 21% of prisoners were. By 1993 that figured was up to 55% while they still represent only 12% of the population. Furthermore, in the last 25 years the US has increased its prison population 4 fold while there has been NO increase in the reported rate of crime. When you crunch the numbers, the majority of adult black American males are at some point in their lives under the control of the legal apparatus. Clearly, if you interpret these numbers correctly, you come to realize that there is something deeply wrong with the American criminal (in)justice system. Who has created and continues to build this system? The dominant culture that certainly is predominantly white. Please do not reduce the issues to some simple question of the sort that I quoted above, it’s a disservice to principled discussion.

This documentary is horrible! Taking tv snippets and making assumptions about peoples predisposed ideals (from the tyra banks show of all places?) is unfounded, misguided and should not be taken seriously. This comes across way too much as a conspiracy theory rather than a proper documentary. This one teaches you to hate and hate only propagates hate. Discussion is the key to this problem, people are scared of what they don’t know whether it be a different culture or religion or skin colour. I think there should be a more balanced portrayal of all races in the media but it wont change by shaking our heads. Teach, discuss and protest peacefully. Brewing in hatred only further marginalizes the issue.

Kifagi, I am not saying the issues behind this documentary aren’t real and urgent. I was saying that this documentary forces the viewer to slant one way rather than showing facts and atrocities that speak for themselves. I’m from Australia and we too have a problem with racism, we had a Prime Minister (John Howard) who refused to say sorry even when we had a massive rally outside parliament for the Aboriginal’s dark and bloody history. We got rid of him and our new prime minister did say sorry for all that had happened and we had measures in place to compensate them and bring us closer together. It will still take time for us to fully compensate and help them with better housing and what not, but it is happening. This would not have happened without the Aboriginal’s help through making awareness and through our media in a positive light.

Kifagi, white people like me want to hear you, if you have a problem though don’t expect someone to read your mind. Get out there and start making people aware. It’s easy to sit back and wait for someone to come and help you but the stark reality is that there is so much other stuff going on in the world that it gets put to one side. It sucks, but you sound like an intelligent guy, I would prefer to hear your voice on a tv show or radio show explaining what you would like to happen rather than some white congressman doing it for the wrong reasons and ******** it up.

i hear alote of WHITE in this video is this a war against white? i think this video itself is racist and why is there so many white ppl that trys to look like black gangsters?

first off…my stats, i’m 22/white/male….now why i’m commenting. Guys..do me a favor and stfu plz about white surpremacy do.o White Supremacy comes from White Majority (as far as industrialized nations go) so stfu about it? you wanna hear statistics about the “supremacy?” shove that one in your pipe and smoke it, we, as far as the devolped nations go, outnumber everyone else…

The only thing I like about this is that it successfully demonstrates to a white male (especially the Tyra bit, and WTF did that woman do to her beautiful eyelids?) that racism exists–but mostly today in an ‘internalized’ form, within people who wish they were white, or think it’s desireable to be white, or whatever. Frankly, I think Tyra’s hair is beautiful as it is naturally. For her to assume that she has to pretend to be white (whatever that means) is insulting to everyone’s intelligence and especially to herself. Did I or my ansestors do that to he? Can people just STFU aleady and realize that there are gradients of desirable characteristiscs of people from all races, creeds, etc? God damn.

@lunda–don’t worry… Soon we will all be enslaved and united in this ‘One World.’ The division into first, second and third was just to give some who cooperate a head start.

@Oglesby–thanks for the Hagins reference.

@Oglesby–Just to clarify, I disagree with you because what you attribute to racism is really the result of slavery. Not all ‘black people’ were slaves, as chocolateQueen demonstrates.

“Is there ANY one able to come up with a solution to counter racism in the micro/macrocoism of society and stop bioterrorism, war, hunger, famine global white domination in ALL PARTS OF AFRICA, Asian, and India, the wanna be whiteing of the globe…The outright genetic innialation of color people through various mean, immunization, missionarism of ALL “third world” countries?”

This is a joke right? C’mon Farren, you know war is older than the human race, and slavery is more ancient than your narrow view of it, so don’t act like it is some uniquely white creation.

This why they told all black people that God is white and His son Jesus, like ****** people, they all go to church and kneel before a white God.(no offence to anyone), But this is the real fact in our society. When i ask every black man that” why don’t we even see a black prophet in the all Bible? Nobody gives me an answer. For the Mormons, blacks are evil, the descendants of Satan, if you don’t know this, go and find out.

What are the signs of racism and effects?

Reducing people of other races to racial stereotypes. This can often be done in very subtle ways. For example, confusing race with culture, a belief that certain races are more adept in particular jobs or functions, a belief in differences in intelligence between the races, etc.

Advocation of segregation. This advocation represents a belief that different races should live apart, be educated separately or not intermarry. The advocacy can occur explicitly or implicitly.

Extreme pride in one’s own country or race. Patriotism can be laudable but when taken to extremes, this sentiment becomes the basis of all fascist regimes.

Association. It is common for racists to associate with other racists. While not necessarily espousing racist opinions themselves it is common for them to personally defend other racists (without directly defending their opinions).

Belittlement of members of other races. Racist will constantly criticize the opinions of other races or even ridicule them. Often they will do it without explicitly making mention of the race of the person or persons.

Latent hate. An exaggerated reaction to any misconduct from a person of the other race, where the punishment is out of all proportion to the original wrong (real or perceived) and completely ignores the provocation which could have led to the original “wrong”. Also, no feeling of moral debt to a racially “other” person for any favors he may have done.
Denial. Racist denies that the other person’s or group’s intelligence, cultural level, social status or other merits even in the face of overwhelming evidence which proves these qualities. The racist will attempt to “objectively” show proof, usually in the form of insignificant details to contradict the obvious.

Constant references to race. A mere mention of someone’s race on a first encounter could be benign but when these references continue after a long period of knowing that person, no matter how innocent the references may appear, they establish an unmistakable pattern.

Antagonistic sentiments. When a person has anatognistic towards someone at first sight it is often related to skin color. The only information that one normally has about someone on seeing them for the first time is their skin color.

Invisibility. An indifference to the plight of members of society who are of other races when they suffer injustices. It is typical of the racist to claim that he is under no obligation to help or that the situation in question is somehow an “inevitable” by-product of some greater good. When the great majority of members of the disadvantaged group are not of his race a pattern emerges.

Presumption of racism in members of own race. Racists typically expect members of their own race to be similarly racist. This often results in expectations of preferential treatment and they expect, for example, members of their race to see the humor in racist jokes or join with them in what but for the race of the victim would be seen as morally reprehensible behavior.

Condescending attitude or behavior. Racists show condescending attitudes towards members of other races. For this reason they often try to use even members of the race which they despise to attack members of that race which cause them most offense. They believe that these other members of the victimized race will collaborate because of the magnanimity which the racist is showing in momentarily treating them as members of the “superior” race.

Strongest reaction to members of other race which rebut racist model. The members of the other race which a racist will typically try most to denigrate are those which act as a rebuttal to his model of what members of the other race should be. If this model is a weak, timid and ****** person, he will see a strong, independent and intelligent person of the “inferior” race as a threat to his model. If they do not attack this person directly, racists contend with this by speaking of “exceptions” to their theory.

Extreme reaction to word racist. Normally the worst insult which an extreme racist can receive is to be called a racist in public. For the extreme racist it is infuriating because there is no adequate response. On the one hand he does not really want to deny it but he knows that the implications of this word are generally negative. It is not like being called ****** or ignorant, because it is difficult for him to counterattack by simply reverting the accusation. The idea that a member of the other race could look down upon the race of the racist normally challenges the model that the racist has about this other race (he typically sees it as weak, timid and cowardly). If he attempts to ridicule the other person he will publicly prove the original accusation correct.

No insight into own prejudice. It is common for racists to have no insight into their own prejudice. This is because they believe their prejudice to be based upon objective grounds.

Indifference to the opinions of members of the other race. It is typical of racists to e.g. make fun of members of the “inferior” race without any consideration for what those members will then think of these racists. At best, racists only care about what people of their own race think of them.

Lack of impartiality. This is extremely common and affects practically all the racist’s opinions and decision-making. Its effects extend beyond the obvious areas like jobs, education and housing. Veneration of great historical figures, membership of clubs and societies etc.

Acceptance of racist behavior or conduct. To view “mildly” racist acts as either reasonable or, at least, not racist and to feel that more severely racist acts are wrong but “understandable”.

Failure to recognize impact of racism on the victim. To believe that a victim of racism can be unaltered by racism. For example, when racists examine apparent differences between members of different races or ethnic groups they completely ignore all differences in circumstances and history which could have affected the “inferior” race.

Maintaining superior position “By all means possible”. A phrase often remembered as a precept of the maintenance of slavery in the Southern United States during the nineteenth century. A racist will use all means possible to preserve the inferior position of the victimized race. Even a person with social motivations and benevolent to members of his own race is capable of violence and other forms of crime towards members of what he views as the “inferior” race. He could easily support the use of force to maintain those disadvantaged by racism in their present condition

@truthandjusticeforallMBA

heres another example of your own racist views…

“No matter the racist comments you make the truth is always existent and that is why you white people hate Africans and other people of color, because you hate purity, balance, harmony of the Universe.”

what a ridiculous statement! “you white people” you say, generalizing caucasians, “hate purity, balance, harmony of the Universe.”
so by your logic, all whites stand for impurity, imbalance, and dissonance of the universe.

you just got wrecked kid.

@ lol@comments

You ask why all white people should be ashamed of the slavery and that you have no history of slave ownership in your family. You might not have had no slave ownership in your family but still you benefit of the work of the ones that did by havin better chances in this society as a white persoon. So wouldn´t you agree that everyone that benefits of the effects of a crime is as guilty as the criminal? Now we can´t turn back time but we can educate ourselfs so we can better understand eachother and dus our feelings especially when it comes to racism…

lol@comments: Your just a typical white man/woman who can’t look beyond your white privilege/racist ideology to even begin to think on my level as a black woman let alone our African Nation.

I have come to realize that white people like yourself, like to create havoc, then go around diatribing, labeling and judging the effects of blacks, never, asking how or why of it they have these behaviors and attitudes.

White people convienietly forget or overlook, or turn the other cheeck, or hide their dirty/bloody hands. It is easy for you to cause trouble Monday thru Saturday, then go to church on Sunday and ask for forgiveness. Your pathological egos and narcissitic ways sicken me.

The thing that you and other white people like you is that you just simply do not get it. We are all human beings(mankind & womankind).

Yes, white people are imbalanced, impure, and dissonant to the Universe. Look at your history; look at our planet and how you and your white peoples have and continue to destroy the Earth; deforestation, excessive uses of natural resources around the world, killed off humans like the Native American and indigenous peoples (who are black)around the globe with your racist ideology, killed of many animals that we now have to put them on the endangered list, etc. It is your white people who have done these things to the planet not the people of color. It is obvious that everywhere white people go people die, that is being impure, unbalanced, demonic, evil because you lack compassion for humanity.

lol@comment: You are in no capacity to tell me an African-American how I feel or what I experience as a victim of racism in the United States of America and globally.

Furthermore, this goes for you and others like you. Your statement that I or African-Americans are racists is nothing more than your attempt to playing reverse psychology. It is yet another attempt to throw rocks and hind your blood dripping hands. It is another attempt to absolve yourselves. It will not work with me, ever.

We as victims of racism, black people have a right to express ourselves regarding the treatment by whites. White people cannot and do not have the right to tell me how I am supposed to feel or tell me what is or isn’t happening to me. The person who made the documentary expressed her feeling as a black woman and the effects of racism in this country (US and abroad/globally). Your attempt at playing psychological games with me will never work, ever. You are a pathological racist. You lack compassion as it relates to blacks in this country, reasoning, logic, morals, values and you unconcerned for blacks.

If you cared for blacks, even the size of a mustard seed your conversation would clearly be different.

@truthandjusticeforallMBA

“We are all human beings”
well, duh.
your trying to move the goalposts now that i highlighted the problems with your bigoted arguments.

anyone who reads my comments will see that i never judge anyone on the color of their skin. i judge them on how silly and illogical their arguments are.

you ought to be ashamed of yourself for preaching against the sins of racism, when the very seed of it is planted in your hate filled heart.

for shame.

To all:

Racism as it is argued here is a distinctly American phenomenon. It is a difficult subject to tackle because America has never had an honest and open dialogue about it. It is not gone, nor is it simply something of the past, as a brief study of America’s prison-industrial complex/ public school system/ patterns of gentrification will attest. America is as segregated now as it ever was and our media is as shameful in its portrayal of “others” as it was 50 years ago.

Now while it is erroneous to conclude that ALL or even most white people are responsible for this or that in the lives of black americans (most, or all, really do not give a damn except when it imposes on their own livelihoods directly), it is equally ignorant to claim that oppressed minorities must simply “get over it” with respect to the traumatic events in large part responsible for the many “freedoms” we enjoy in this country today.

Consider this: if it is possible for an individual to suffer from PTSD as the result of trauma, surely it is equally likely that an entire community can suffer from the social equivalent. The trauma inflicted upon GENERATIONS will not be easily corrected by a well-meaning few in a period of a few years.

Consider also that the last time that America was confronted honestly and substantively with its behaviors throughout its short history, the powers-that-be made every effort to assassinate, corrupt, co-opt, and disinform the effort.

Racism is complex. Its purpose is intended to divide and deflect from REAL issues (particularly class issues). The discussion as it has evolved above is every evidence of that fact.

Let us try to focus less on racism and more on our shared humanity. Look at the experiences of another human being and try to relate to that. This way no one needs to be discounted, every one is needed, and we ALL learn something from one another.

Very interesting documentary, the parts where the black and latino children said it was better to be white was sickening.
However, I have two issues with the film:

1 – Who is the criminal? The scowling guy in the hoodie or the guy in the nice button-up shirt? What a joke.

2 – The test to determine racial preference. I took that test. I was not surprised that it took me longer and that I made more mistakes when things were switched around. Isn’t that to be expected? I had been pressing with my right finger for negative word/black face for a while, then I had to switch. So now, every time I see a black face I have to remind myself to press the other key, my response is no longer a conditioned reflex. I can’t believe how much stock is being put in this study, for the tests to have any merit half the time white should be paired with negative words at the beginning.

Films always showed half truths and semi-fairy tale realities about the world. Just check movies about ancient greece, you’d laugh your head off if you have knowledge about history while seeing movies like “Hercules and Medusa” and such.

So why believe another kind of movie shows Arabs, Black people and other hot-issue societies correctly?

** villianization.

US is racist, always as been, but will it always be ???
Of course the US is not the only racist country. What’s interesting is the only time the world can see how, how, i can’t even find a strong enough word that would describe white people’s destruction of races, are in Documentaries (witch are at 99% never seen on TV).
How can one not see these injustices day after day and even try to find arguments to give these reasons.

This “documentary” is really just a bunch of videos about racism added back to back with random inserted opinions. It also does not leave room for debate. The inserted comments themselves are very biased and take on a childish accusatory tone.

Though I agree with a lot of what the videos have to say, I don’t agree with those comments. I feel like it would have been much better if the person had actually gone out by themselves and interviewed people.

Calling bs.
This “Documentary” is just plain bad.
Personally i think the people who made this where actually racists trying to make white people look bad. :/
btw. white zionists wtf? still asking myself what that has to do with it.

There was no real coherent structure to this film… it was more like some Youtube videos interspersed with Powerpoint slides. The comments were inflammatory (arguably racist towards white people) and weren’t backed up by any kind of evidence. The use of “White Zionist Media” was totally irrelevant for example. The music was annoying. I watched until about half way through and then gave up.
On a plus note it did raise really important questions about the media… but the clip of the doll study could have done that alone.

Too much interjection of the video producer’s opinions delivered with too much sarcasm and spite.

If I want to get preached to, I’ll go to a church.

It is important that we at least try and up-root and destroy all racism. It can never be completely achieved. If we all woke up the same colour tomorrow, we’d probably find something else to be hateful to each other about.

Humans are basically as**oles on legs.

^^^^ racist, smirite?

@NYC_Chic
‘White people are HILARIOUS…’

I am mixed race. What about mixed race people? By your rationale they should hate their white side and love their black side? Even though in many occasions they may be raised by their white family.

i love a good old stress relieving rant as much as the next man,but blaming ALL white people for the problems of the world is just not a very productive way to adress the racist paradigm. The over generalised statements that you make end up isolating the very people that you are trying to reach and educate to your extremely important perception of racism.

What about poor peasant stock whiteys? are they also to blame?

NYC_Chic

‘they achieved those ends was by influencing, shaping, molding and consistently reinforcing people’s perceptions of skin color.’

I like this type of argument because you are actually adressing the problem. it is the ALL part that offends me.

‘Whatever YOU chose to do with your black or white sides is on you.’

There is no choice! you play the hand that you are dealt.

‘Since “all” offends you, I can change it. Help me find a more accurate word, plz.’

I wish that i could but your style of conversation is not the same as mine and my gift of language is just not up to it.

its not the all the world part that i disagree with its the all whites that is implied when you say white people followed by negative comments.

‘but it becomes racist and hostile to say white people have a vested interest in promoting white racial superiority?’

because not all white people do.

i will look into the use of language question that you asked about and see what my peeps have got to say about it.

to be continued…

One possible way to adress the language point is to say western governments promote racism because… or even better than that is to name an individual or group.

give that a go and see how it works for you.

Damn! somebody must have forgot to give me my media agency. is there some honky hotline I can call to have that issue resolved?
of course, I will have to defer my share of the blame until I have a reason to be sorry. If you don’t like your station in life, do something about it. until then the only person(s) you have to right to blame is yourself(s).
As for the film. I had high hopes, but they were smashed by the filmmakers desire to give opinion, rather than document. Too bad really. Media and its effects on self image is a frequent topic in my classroom. I was hoping to find an unbiased documentary on the subject to watch with my students.

A couple of points to add to the previous comments,

Black people are not a race! by the similar rationale white people are not a race, they are both a combination af MANY RACES. when you look at things in a localised way like the American (or any other countries) racist paradigm it is easy to make comment like ‘white people are..’ or black people are….’ ,but as well as being an overgeneralised hate fuelled state of mind ( which is more damaging to the hater than the hated) it is largely unprodutive and counterproductive to the valid point of views being expressed about racism. In short people just ‘switch off’ when being talked to in an accusatory manner.

Without trying to be rude it seems to me and any discerning observer that the barrage of hate directed towards others is usually a sign of low self esteem/self knowledge. This does have a lot to do with negative portayals in the media, knowledge of awful historical facts and the stigmatision of black people in a narrow minded way. However, it is much better to hold up as good rolemodels the positive contribution to society that black people have made such as in the arts, music, dance,literature, sports, race relations and many other fields of human endeavour instead of responding to the negative stigmatization being put out by narrow minded people.

Please don’t become the thing that you hate most.

explain why these kids picked the white dolls?could it be that they see what there culture is like?could it be that there race shows racism more then many other cultures?why didnt they use differant other dolls for these children to choose from?could it be that these children would pick some other doll then just the white doll?or is this documentary fixed showing only kids picking white dolls?put more dolls on that table and then do the pick a doll!

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If you don’t like your station in life, do something about it. until then the only person(s) you have to right to blame is yourself(s).

-LOL. You say this as though throughout history groups of men and societies of men have never DELIBERATELY set about to control “stations” in life.

You’re naive at best, dishonest in actuality. I work with young kids as the editor of a student newspaper. These kids tell me stories about being put in foster care and NEVER seeing any of their brothers and sisters again, nights spent riding the train because they were homeless and their mothers were trying to stay out of the shelter, the joy they felt when an uncle got a job as a security guard and was able to buy boots for them.

The white people I work with, who are so “blown away” by the “realness” of it all, have for the most part been on happy pills all of their life, don’t burn 100 calories in a freaking workday ever and never see the irony in embracing a “simple” lifestyle of $100 hemp pants and $12 salads for lunch.

I see it everyday and I’m convinced its no coincidence. break

@Phil – Those black chicks you see walking around with blonde hair are trying to be “post racial”. They are embracing the multi culti where “race doesnt matter because we are all one”. But they don’t see the irony in that they can’t be and look like their own natural selves in this multi culti unless its like a ugly cartoonish blackness that is almost a parody of itself, where they are the token “black girl” who can laugh at her big lips, big nose and big behind. When they put on the blond wigs and weaves, they stop being just plain old “black girls” and become “Hot chicks like Tyra and Beyonce”, in their minds.

Don’t be fooled, many “non whites” what to look white, however MANY whites undergo surgery to look like the “norm”. People need to learn to be happy with who they are, not try to become something they are not!

OH and to all those people who go under the knife, good luck explaining to your children why you hate what you looked like so much you surgically changed it. Lets see how your child reacts when they look just like you when you were a child and now they think they are ugly.

With that in mind, and also as an avid fan of asian – mostly Japanese – culture, as well as a major rpg gamer (Final Fantasy being a long time favorite), it really sucks that FF images are used to indicate the Japanese’s ”europeanizing” of characters in this doc. It’s kind of insulting, cuz I get a really strong feeling this person just searched randomly for game images with light-haired characters to try to justify a false point.

All characters from games to every form of anime (which game character designs are modeled after) involve different hair, eye, and skin colors – even those of unnatural hues or even body composite… cuz it’s an easy, edgy, and artistic way of differentiating one character from another and one personality from another as well. I’m sure if the doc creator actually played these games (of which only one franchise is depicted for example), they’d also notice features, eye shapes, mannerisms, and actions that are purely and traditionally Japanese. With the better rendering of newer games and systems, it is literally like watching a Japanese man or woman that just happens to have non-brown eyes or blonde hair…as well as silver, pink, blue, purple, etc… Same as many real-life Japanese, which is something you won’t ever see on an American, unless they’re deeply rooted in their love for gaming and asian culture.

The biggest example of stupidity, bias, or just plain ignorance on this doc maker’s part with the whole segment???
They seem to fail to show screen shots of all the darker-skinned, alien, or BLACK characters from the very games whose posters they’re showing… especially seeing as how FF is one of the only Japanese-made games of at least that genre that actually have BLACK protagonist characters in them…

Racism or racialism is not only inter-racial, when German killed Jews, when Russian killed Polish or kill Chechnians today, when Hutus killed Tutsis (Rwanda), when Turks killed Armenians, when Serbs killed Croats who killed Bosnians who killed Serbs who killeds Croats etc… when Japanese killed Chinese etc…they killed people with the same “racial” characteristics isn’t it?…inter-racial racism is already an horrible face of humanity, internal (or intra-racial) racism is another horrible face too.

Black or White or Asian mankind stay the same with a beautiful and an horrible face in the same time like the Janus face. And don’t forget the other faces of racism, the religious one for example and the horrible butchery of St Bartholomew in France during the XVI th century when Catholics killed Huguenots etc… And the linguistic pone is not forgotten as for example between Flemish and Wallons in Belgium etc… It’s a long way to “convivencia” an occitan term to say livin together.

The reason media makes people feel inadequate is because that unhappiness makes money for someone. It is easy to sell “happiness” to unhappy people, and when mass media makes people feel miserable about themselves, someone is going to squeeze a lot of money out of that unhappiness. It’s capitalism out of control and it permeats everything, it feeds unhappiness, inadequacy, and unstability. Just look at the amount of white Hollywood actors and actresses that line up for plastic surgery. They are white, they are incredibly rich, and they all feel inadequate and unhappy about their appearance.

American culture is a major part of the problem because it’s everywhere. It’s not “white culture”, it’s American culture. The flood of American mass media is wreaking havoc on the customs and inherent characteristics of other cultures, including cultures of white people. Everything all around the globe is being turned into American cookie cutter. Teenagers all over the world are imitating American pop singers (including black singers and rappers) in their looks and even in their mannerisms. Conditioning doesn’t have to be deliberate, exposure is enough. You are going to become conditioned to certain styles and behaviors by being exposed to them non-stop both via media and also your living environment.

No one in the media is deliberately trying to make non-white people want to be white. It just happens that the people that started that industry a long time ago happened to be white. It’s all about the people who run that industry, the greedy economic elite, which happens to be mostly white, making money. Race is a side issue. The economic elite is not 100% white anyway. There are black people there too, nevermind Asians of all variety. If you look at Hollywood films from the early 20th century and early TV productions and compare them to the present era, white people were more prominent back then. The amount of black and Asian people in American mass media has been steadily growing and will continue to grow. In the early 20th century, and even later, American mass media just couldn’t flood the whole world on a mass scale like it can now. It is only about money at this stage, not about race. Better realize this sooner rather than later, so you can get yourself out of that malign cycle (mass production of unhappiness and inadequacy) and not get trapped in another malign cycle (race hate and division).

I find it somewhat disingenious the way the movie analysts focused on the stereotyped Arab buffoons and maniacs. Stereotyping “the other” is not a phenomenom limited to American culture. The only reason it is conspicuous is because of how widespread American media is. When you have ****** or evil white people in American films, no one pays attention to their race. That’s just the way it works. Isn’t Aladdin himself an Arab too, by the way? I wonder if those analysts ever read classical Arabic literature because there are a lot of murderous Arabs in them. Several of the first Arabs mentioned in the Thousand and One Nights are cruel and murderous. In fact, the murderous cruelty of one character is the raison d’être for the tales. The Arab stereotype that exists in the entertainment industry was originally derived from not only Arabic literature but also the Muslim armies that conquered parts of Europe some hundreds of years ago and violently repressed the non-Muslim populations. These experiences moved into the collective consciousness of many European to-be colonialist powers, and the image of the bloodthirsty barbarians, which they inevitably were to the natives of those conquered lands in times past, persisted. That doesn’t mean it is laudable to replicate the Arab stereotypes time and again in modern day films, but my point is that it wasn’t a random invention by some greasy racist whitey nor is stereotyping or vilifying the other an evil limited to Americans or “white people” (which is just as incoherent a group of people as “black people”). In any case, in American movies the cardboard character enemy is non-American, and at a certain juncture that enemy was very often a white Russian communist.

I had to shake my head at that one clip where they juxtaposed a picture of a white terrorist, dressed in a shirt that could easily be worn by any average teacher of any racial background, with a picture of a black man outside in a hoody with the sun in his eyes causing him to squint a little. So tell me, children, which of these two looks like a criminal and which one looks like a teacher? As if the difference in deciding between a criminal and a teacher was always going to be blatantly based on skin color. The true subtlety of the inner workings behind the choice was more evident in the drawings of identically dressed girls.

At some point in the documentary, the text commentary pointed out, as if it were part of some white conspiracy, how all those Internet dating sites match white men with Asian women. Well, it clearly isn’t a conspiracy. It is about money. White men are the target audience for those sites, that’s where the money is and that’s why they put up images of white men with pretty Filipinas. They are selling their dating service to single, unhappy white males, and trying to appeal to them to part with their money. You would have to be very biased to turn something as simple as that into an example of some imaginary white conspiracy.

The evil in American culture is in the industry of making people unhappy just to make a profit out of them, to exploit them for money. The power of money overrides everything else. It is not an inherently racial issue. It is an issue that has racial aspects to it because of a combination of historical factors. To me, the kind of propaganda put forth in the text commentary of the documentary only causes further division among people and gets everyone away from the real issue. Instead of fanning the flames of racial hatred (nevermind the Jew hatred with the always handy Zionist accusations), the aim should be to enlighten and empower each and every individual regardless of race. Propaganda documentaries like this one are not going to make the world a better place if people take their cue from the disproportionate interpretations of conspiracy theorists. However, some of the clips included in it could help in making people more aware as long as they understand how those pieces fit in the big picture.

Finally, I would like to say to everyone that if someone peddles division and hate, don’t buy into it, no matter how persuasive it might sound to a wounded heart. The truth won’t be found in the extremes. Thank you to everyone who read this comment in full. And if you didn’t have the patience to do that, I hope you at least read this paragraph. Peace.

I didn’t like this film because it is just as biased as any other media. It seems to preach that black people proud of their color are confident, but whites proud of their color are racist. I think all people should be proud of who they are no matter their skin color.
BTW I am black. My family’s from Kenya.

There are a lot of good points. However, you cannot make a documentary with highly charged comments by the creator of the film. When you read some of the comments, they carry a lot of spite and scorn. It is fine to feel that way if you feel crossed. However, if you are trying to make a documentary, you must refrain from doing so or it makes people wonder about the objectivity of your film. There were some good points, but the written comments made the argument very weak.

@Nicole,
I think you make an elegantly diplomatic point. Perhaps the most sane of the comments. LOL. Thank you for your refreshing point of view.

I stopped watching when white zionist media agenda once more got the full blade for this.

Great documentary. Most of today’s racial stereotyping is subtle, but nevertheless it still exists. I guess as long as the majority of media owners are White, they will continue to portray non-whites as inferior.

This is not to say that this stereotyping applies to ALL films, shows, etc. but undoubtably a great many.

Swap the word “black” with “female” and “white” with “male” and there’s another film to make right there. White is no more a “standard” than male.

This film-maker does not understand the media of film. It’s half essay and half film. Maybe she should have made a CHOICE right there, to either tell a story using film or writing, well, an essay. The text would be stronger if less angry, and the music is dreadful. Sounds like porn meets infomercial. Yikes.

I never really got the “prod to be black” thing. Or proud to be white. Or ashamed to be black OR white. I am not proud to be white. But I can’t bring myself to feel bad over what my great great great great great great great great grandfathers did. They were vikings, so go figure. But where’s my ownership in that? The one thing I have done, that I’m proud of, is throwing out my TV. I really recommed it!

I live in Toronto which is as about as multi-cultural as a city can get. We have tons of film and theatre schools here and guess what, the students are predominatly white. Even though minorities could get enrolled with greater ease and get a hand out for finacial support. So I think that pretty much answers why you see more white people in the media.

First of all I have to say this entire thing was complete garbage. The fuc**** guy couldn’t do any goddamn voiceovers?! Sorry Vlatko but all the text, which wasn’t even his original work, was really pissing me off. I made it to about 30:33 and said to myself, “I swear to god tat if the next thing is another ENTIRE SCREEN full of text im gonna have to shut this off.”

Aside from that, I think there wasn’t really anything new in the doc from what I saw. Power is the real motivation for people to do this. People all around the Mediterranean said the same things about Romans because everyone wanted to be accepted into the trappings of Roman power. Koreans, Japanese and South East asians imitated Chinese culture because they thought it would make them as powerful as the Chinese and so on and so forth. I mean even militaries do it. During the civil war many Union armies wore the red trousers and red hats of the French Zouaves because the French had been a pre eminent power up until that point (but not for much longer afterward thanks to the Prussians) and their bravery was world renown. Same goes for America, because of our power the people IN power get to decide what the world sees, eats, reads and thinks (even about themselves). When this country’s power wanes (which it is) and we’re just another washed up former industrialized shell of ourselves (oh wait, we already are) then people will give less and less of a **** about what Americans think.

I would bet a lot of money that the guy who made this (or gal for that matter) wasn’t white and had some REAL issues he needed to work out. I personally think that all this race tweaking or whatever you wanna call it and the creator’s assertion that it is the CAUSE of American domination as opposed to an EFFECT of it is completely bogus.

Having said all that, I’m half white and half black. I’ve had white people give me shi* and i’ve had black people do the same. For the most part though I’ve never let anyone else determine the state of my SELF esteem. But I also understand that most people (black, white, asian, etc.) are susceptible to the pervasive view of things. I also understand that I’m not most people and neither is anyone who comes to this site I imagine (I mean face it…I’ve seen most of you post other comments and there’s some regulars. MOST people don’t watch documentaries for fun haha).

It’s interesting because a few weeks ago I went to a party on a mountain near my ma’s house and we went because it was this girl’s birthday and my buddy was tryin to get a little something…don’t make me elaborate. ANYWAY, needless to say it was not the “party” that we had been promised, it was about 8 rednecks, one not wearing any pants, all sitting around a fire and I kid you not the song I hear when we get out of the car is called “****** Hatin’ Me”. It was about ‘them ole naggers on welfare’ and so on and so forth. My buddies, who were all white, seemed WAY more pissed than I was. But it was pretty obvious what’s up…I’m not exactly white and I have dreadlocks…so…it was kind of awkward for everybody. Except the rednecks (sorry if that offends anyone but I REALLY don’t know what else to call them. These are the kind of people who, if you called them rednecks to their faces, would take it as a compliment)…My friends seemed to think of it as extremely offensive but they couldn’t really grasp that I wasn’t offended by it. It wasn’t because I see myself as subservient to white people in anyway though. Far from it. I saw myself as infinitely more intelligent and…over all better off than them and saw no need to start anything over a song (which SUCKED by the way). Let me elaborate why. The one kid sitting there with no pants on says, “Sh**, what’s that subject where ya learn about continents and all that sh**?…Geometry?” I rest my case. So I just sat there…drank and waited to leave because it was a lame *** “party” with like thirteen people, including us, total.

Sorry for the lengthy post, but it’s about 6:30 am and I felt that story was COMPLETELY relevant AND this docu pissed me off so much that I felt like I had the right to piss everyone off as much as it pissed me off haha.

Be easy everyone!

Vlatko says it’s ok to be pissed at Nikk!

LOL! I am just kidding youse guyses, (that’s how we say it in Jersey…)

Racism is the most intellectually mystifying thing that humans do.

I understand the origins of it… xenophobia is important from an evolutionary stand point… and Epicurus could probably explain it better than I,

BUT, we are evolved now. Right? We know, now, that nature LOVES diversity. If you can, and if some woman gives you leave to, always try and mate with a person of some other race.

Your children will be strong and beautiful! Most likely, I mean there is a chance of a genetic anomoly of course, BUT, your chances are more positive with a mate of a different race.

Is all’s I’m sayin’…

Vlatko, there is a documentary about James Henrick Clark called, “The Long and Mighty Walk”

I think I have spoken to you about this before. Can you not find it? It is narrated by Wesley Snipes. He, (Clark) was the African Joseph Cambpell. A great man, with a rich history. He knew and tutored MLK and Malcolm X. In my world history classes he was greatly praised!

I think every person of African descent should see this documentary… He said, “the missing pages of world history is the history of Africa…”

Only much more grammatically correct than that… sorry…

At any rate, one of his peeves concerned the calling of African peoples, “black” or Europeans “white”

He said, “When you call a man or woman by a color, you erase his or her heritage, their birthplace… their family and origin and no person can live without their family or origin…”

James Earl Jones was a great student of Clark’s.

That’s Darth Vader and Thulsa Doom, to you and me!