White Privilege

I was very disturbed by the video clip we watched today from the show What Would You Do. I feel that the fact that so many people could witness White teenage boys commit a crime and just let them get away with it, while so many others called the police on African American teenage boys for committing the same crime proves this. It really bothered me how the people who called the police on the African American boys said they would have called the cops on White kids doing the same thing, but would have done it quicker. I feel that a person's race should not change how someone reacts to a situation. Another thing that stood out to me during the video was the comment one of the men talking about the experiment made. He said that a reason people probably noticed the African American boys vandalizing the vechile more than noticing the white boys was because it is a stereotype that is associated with African Americans. Although this reason is most likely true I feel that it is very wrong. People should not be basing things on stereotypes, they should be focusing on what is happening right infront of them, regardless of stereotypes. Ashley Allen, Post 14