@@ElectricBlueSwirl no, has was the mom's boyfriend apparently but he may have been a hired actor - but if you're going to wear blackf*ce and yell the n-word, does it really matter whether you were hired as an actor 😅
@@bertoandon9681 oh yeah if it's fictional and serves a purpose that could possibly be different (it's not my place to decide if it's okay or not) but never in a million years would I be paid any amount of money to go on a scripted reality show and do or say any of the things Bruno did. 😬
I remember that show! That dad was awful. He kept talking about being bullied as a HS basketball player. Like that was a justification for his bigotry.
"Based on the daily slights and danger White people inflict on black people on a daily basis, should black people fear White people?" That's Marc Lemont Hill. Is he a bigot trying to find justification?
@S C I mean yeah I don’t think it sounds that bad but I wouldn’t say it’s funny. The concept seems good. Like I think it’s smart for them to experience life from the others’ perspective
Her job is watching trash movies for our entertainment. The things she endured. How dare Jarvis and Jordan put her through the trauma of knowing this show exist 😂😂 poor kennie
@@littlemisspipebomb4723 yeah unfortunately it was a reality show so they had to interact with real people and go in public while “acting” as the other race. at least if it was a sitcom they’d have SOME excuse (not that any excuse would justify the show but you get me lol💀)
It wasn’t Fox - it was FX and it aired 6 episodes in just over a month in spring of 2006. It must have gone unnoticed by the majority of people because I’ve never heard of it until this year. Fox must have wanted to hide it because there was just zero promotion.
This was a weird mid 2000s trend where they would bust out that make up and make people swap spaces. I remember an episode of Dr Phil where they did it to a racist white guy. He didn’t look black he just looked crazy af. Then they made him go holler at people on the corner of a street at random people being like “help me out man where can I get something to eat”. And he came back and was like “that was a learning experience”
@@emmalinekim9822 She's pretty crazy, they've done more outrageous stuff than that on the show. At least this one wasn't an instance of putting the competitors in harms way lol
@@emmalinekim9822omg she was so into that 😂 and then further on in the series it seemed like some of the makeovers were kinda of that flavor too (why????)
@@corradocampo yeah! Like the stereotype about most white people, actually; being secretly racist and just looking for the right time to ✨ sprinkle ✨ it into the situation like on RU-vid comments and random conversation.
And the black family (wearing white makeup) finally got to have like, a normal time. I think the dad went to a golf course and said that he felt like people weren't staring at him like they usually were
@@leebrown1213 are you suggesting that one might not call an able bodied adult black person Shaniqua because they'd immediately respond with explosive violence? Thanks for accidentally showing the stereotype...
@Lee Brown haha that’s the dumbest shit ever! I keep the same energy infront of everyone speaking my mind that racism doesn’t exist like the media wants you to believe! Black people Are Not Oppressed they have the same opportunities well actually they have more because they are black! Wake up an smell the hypocrisy in this world please!
Might wanna tell the dude who called me a dirty sp*c at Walmart for speaking Spanish to my elderly father that racism is on life support now. Pack it up, guys. We've solved racism.
I remember seeing an advertisement for this show when it aired and even me, a whole as child at the time, knew this show was weird af 🥴 The early 2000’s was a wild time
@@NotSure109 Not true lol, putting aside the fact that its straight up blackface/whiteface for entertainment, he literally says the white father drops the N word hard R which he does.
@@legend7951 You just admitted you don't know what "black face" is, "white face isn't a thing", and they were referring to the actor saying n|gger in interviews.
I remember seeing the first two episodes on TV. The 2000s were definitely a sexist and bigoted time in my experience but hardly anyone talks about that.
With our current generation romanticizing the decade it's probably just through our rose-tinted glasses ignoring the fact that despite a simpler time, it may have been bad if you were a minority.
Todays social media broadcasts racists views from celebrities to everyday people that pales in comparison to what you would face day to day in the early 2000s. Racism is the pretty much the same as it was then but it’s wayyyyy more exposed now.
The make up & hair was HORRIBLE! I will never forget that show. The white mom pretending to be black kept pissing off the black mom to no end by accident, like she said something like " hey bitch, whatssup"? & the black chick flips out like :"who you calling a bitch you fucking cracker"? & the white mom is all like " bitch is on the word list" 🤣🤣🤣 Like they literarily picked white & black people who had somehow lived in segregation all their lives or something. The white daughter pretending to be black stuck out so bad...she was like " my favourite group is The Cranberries ", & all the black kids were like " what the fuck"??? And the black dad pretending to be white kept making a huge deal out of every day shit, like he went to an expensive ass golf store to look at shoes & he's all " they put shoes on MY FEET " !!! It's so worth watching 😂
I'm old, I remember when that aired. Watched every episode and never figured out where to put my feels about it. But in the end, it proved, probably not in the way it intended, how insidious and internalized racism is. So, depending on how you wanna look at it... mission accomplished?? Idk really. It was a time 😂😅
This series was NOT racist. Its actually exposed something bigger than that. But we aren't ready for that conversation yet. Until you watch the entire series for yourself, you cannot pass judgement. It's very complex and cannot ne summed up in a short clip.
They didn't need to have white people in blackface to explain to people just how far reaching racism and discrimination affects black people, sth black people have been saying anyway since time immemorial. It was a shock value show with a shallow message attached, like a predecessor to those 'social experiment' prank channels on RU-vid. Plus it didn't really instill any change either. Reminds me of that reddit post where a guy didn't believe his wife telling him just how awful people are to women online and had to catfish to see it for himself instead of like, just believing the people who go through with that in the first place and got praised.
The conversation we aren't ready for is that black people are constantly looking for racism where it doesn't exist...and it's a projection of the racism they feel towards Whites.
I work in the DMV area where all races work and live. I visit businesses every day and talk to all races. Blacks, Whites, Asians, Afghans, Hispanics, Indians, etc., and never once have I seen anyone acting prejudiced towards another race. Maybe because everyone is working and has jobs? I just know that men and women who work don’t have time for hate.
I remember this show getting announced as a kid and thinking "wow, how progressive to have them trade places!" Then it came out and I was like "wow, I'm stupid...."
Yeah the dude saying "nigger", who doesn't think racism exists in a show full of Blackface produced by an Anti-Semite - not racist at all, Einstein. This wasn't "woke" either as I can tell you are part of the tone-deaf kind.
Actually the show wasn’t racist …. Yeah in the AFTERMATH that white dude was indeed a hot racist mess (he played the black dad, with makeup etc etc)…… but the show itself illuminated a LOT of stuff, especially for the white family to see HOW MICRO-AGRESSIONS feel, on the regular. The black people made up to be white… of course confirmed a lot of racist crap they’d lived. But the show itself wasn’t “the most racist thing ever”-that’s absurd actually
Theyre laughing like a bunch of hyenas at what he's saying, as though it shows the absurdity of the show. He doesn't give info that conveys any sense of what the show is about. They are busting their guts over the make-up/prosthetics without giving the audience a description of why they find it hilarious. You nailed it on what the show was about.
@@kelpermoon23 that’s an interesting analysis - that could be taken either direction. For me, it confirmed a ton of real life experiences and micro-aggressions as a black person living in the USA
If black white taught you anything about race you would know it’s racist Yeah the blackface show where they make the actual black kid go to etiquette classes and Bruno constantly screams slurs with no intervention whatsoever isn’t racist. I’m so smart. Racism isn’t real because I don’t have to deal with it
I remember watching this show when it first came out it was great!!! It really made you think about what is race. What makes one white and what makes one black??? Is it skin color, is it DNA, claimed ethnicity, nation of origin, or physical features? Races is a social construct and as such is a moving Target.
