Do We Really Need a Documentary About White Privilege?
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On July 22, MTV is premiering a documentary titled White People about “what it means to be young and white” in America, a question to which we already know the answers.
And yet here is a film that explores white privilege and exposes willful ignorance through the lens of five white people. In the above trailer, prominent undocumented journalist Jose Antonio Vargas asks his documentary subjects questions like, “How might your life be different if you weren’t white?” And, “When you say ‘white,’ what does that mean to you?”