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White People Documentary Analysis

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of their “safe space”, creating a feedback loop. In MTV’s documentary White People, which is about what race means to college age whites. In this documentary they visit a college campus where they ask student of all ethnicities, race questions. In their data it states “3 out of 4 young white American’s say they don’t see race” (MTV). But when they ask a black student about this “colorblindness” she is upset. She says, “I feel like you all are trying to avoid what the real issue is, it’s a cop out its for people who are too scared to face it” (MTV). And lastly, the final quote that stuck out was “less than 1 in three young whites say they have talked about race with their families…and 4 out of 5 white people say they feel uncomfortable discussing
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