what would you do?

The show What Would You Do is a ABC show which examines how ordinary people react witnessing situations. They are then confronted by the show and questioned as to their actions. The way people can react to situations can be pretty shocking and ridiculous as witnessed in class. I was not too surprised by the findings of the show, that far more people called the cops on the black kids then the white ones. It was shocking to me however that people called the cops about suspicious activity of the two black people sleeping in the car, saying they looked like they were about to rob something. That was pretty ridiculous. The show did a good job of showing the apparent racism, even if those confronted claimed they would do the same for white individuals. Yet listening closer to what they said indicated otherwise, a few claiming they would have called the cops sooner on the white kids. Why is that? It seems to be an overcompensation more than anything else. Going onto their website, I discovered they did a few more shows exposing racism. I think this is a great way of getting across the insanity of how these people were acting and the apparent racism showed through an identical situation with the difference being the skin color. Hopefully the show continues to expose such things because in order for the problem of racism to be fixed, a lot of people need to actually realize it still exists and how unfair it truely is.