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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 8:41 pm
The actual black mother doesn't look as white as the rest of her family, when made up. But the rest are done convincingly. Not diggin these people...as of 28 mins into it.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 8:51 pm
The black mother's lips are a huge give away. Bruno was in the wrong neighborhood lol.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 8:56 pm
I don't have cable so I can't watch this, but what is it? Is it like that book/movie Black Like Me? Has anyone watching this watched that movie or read the book?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 9:02 pm
I haven't read the book. But this is about a white family becoming black via special effects and same with a black family and immersing themselves in the opposite culture.
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 9:07 pm
http://www.comcast.net/tv/index.jsp?cat=TELEVISION&fn=/2006/02/16/327768.html&cvqh Haven't read the book, Kaili.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 9:32 pm
Amazon Link I loved it. This white guy in the 60s disguised himself and went down south to live as a black man. Really good. They made the movie in the 60s I think. Book's better.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 10:04 pm
this was pretty good ... I'll keep it on my schedule. I'm hoping that Bruno will get his eyes opened soon.
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Jhezzie
Member
07-05-2001
| Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 12:30 am
OMG. Bruno is the most annoying, know-it-all, did I say annoying? If I hadn't seen him in interviews, I would probably give him the benefit of the doubt that he was a victim of editing, but no. It's him. The daughter is great. She's so open to the whole thing, and doesn't have a preconceived notion towards it. She'll probably get the most out of it.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 5:05 am
I hope Bruno will wake up but I fear that he won't cause it's just the typical attitude. Taking up too much of the sidewalk, pffttttt.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 5:30 am
I taped it and haven't watched it yet. Judging just by what I have heard in interviews, Bruno didn't learn much, if anything at all.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 6:50 am
Well there are more eps so there's still time. I have to admit that the black family's showing great restraint, especially the dad when he was working at the bar and the customer was saying that this is a great area and one of the few to remain all white which equals utopia in his mind.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 7:56 am
I hear ya, Mocha ... I was ready to reach through my tv a couple of times myself...
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 8:24 am
Next week should be interesting when the black son in makeup and the white kids use the n-word and he says/does nothing. That wouldn't be either of my boys cause something would've popped off.
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Seabreeze
Member
09-05-2004
| Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 1:54 pm
I thought the white guy at the bar was saying that the area was great because it was safe and not because it was white. HE was saying that as areas got integrated, the crime went up. I don't know his area but perhaps it was truth. Does it make it racist? No. It makes it racist if he wanted the area to be white only because he likes white people. He, was different that a racist...he wanted just safe area.
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 2:13 pm
I thought the white patron said because there hasn't been integration into the neighborhood it remains one of the few last safe neighborhoods. Sort of an ignorant statement and it wouldn't be a stretch that he meant as long as we stay a white neighborhood it'll be safe. Definitely a statement meant that blacks or other races would bring crime or make the neighborhood unsafe in some way….strictly due to them not being white.
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Seabreeze
Member
09-05-2004
| Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 2:20 pm
If he said that I missed it. I am hearing impaired and tend to read lips part of the time and the patron was not facing the viewer. The black guy with white coloring didnt react while he was talking until later.I thought he took it as I took it that the guy wanted a safe neighborhood...even the patron told him you would want to bring your family here because it was safe. It was only afterward that the black guy reacted saying it was a racist statement.
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Seabreeze
Member
09-05-2004
| Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 2:47 pm
I taped the show because I knew I would miss it(saw only a part of it til now-now I am watching from the beginning). Carmen (white mom) akward. Bruno(white guy)tends to say his name a lot. Their daughter looks most ethnic out of the family.The black mom seems most like a mom I would feel comfortable being around. Her husband seems to use the the black experience to define himself to the white family when he admittedly says because of his light color he got trouble from both races growing up. I can't believe Carmen never interacted with black people...I find that incredible especially when she says that her parents were civil rights advocates.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 3:35 pm
It is sometimes astonishing to me that people can say extremely racist things and really believe in their hearts that they are not racist. If anyone watched America's next Top Model - one of the white models who, thank God, did not make it, was talking to one of the black models, against the equal opportunity thing ( I forget the american term for it). The black model said that she was the onLy black sales clerk at Abercrombie and Fitch and the white model said "well why would they have more ?... Why would black people shop there... white people wouldn't shop at Fubus's etc etc. " When the rest of the models, white and black, called her on being racist she absolutely denied that she was racist in any way!!!!!!!!! I particularly admired the restraint shown by the black model - she argued back but kept her cool.
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 4:03 pm
Jan, not only did she deny that the comment was racist she also proclaimed it can't be racist because it's HER opinion. Like opinions can't s be racist.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 4:15 pm
The black dad's hands were shaking with anger while serving the guy who was talking about the last white neighborhood. I took that as him being pissed off at the guys comments.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 4:57 pm
Bruno really needs a wake up call! He is so fixated on waiting for someone to use the N word on him, so he can show that person that the word only has power if he lets it have power.....Ugh. Its like he thinks that word is the only potentially racist thing around or something, and that everything else isn't racist unless the person hearing/experiencing it lets it be racist by the way they allow themselves to perceive it. Ugh again! That's a nice neat and convenient way to make sure its never his fault if something he says comes off as racist. Its the other person's fault for perceiving it as such, not his for saying it! I did find it interesting that the Black dad was so delighted to have a salesman help him try on shoes!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 7:51 pm
Very interesting show, I look forward to the rest of the eps
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Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, March 10, 2006 - 12:11 am
I thought the show was ok. I think both families are stuck in stereotypes; hence, I suppose, the purpose of this show. While I find Bruno rather boorish and naive when it comes to racism, I also found Brian to be inflexible and close minded. And what typical white kid function is etiquette lessons? Puhlease. I need to see more but so far, it's an "eh" show for me.
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Jhezzie
Member
07-05-2001
| Friday, March 10, 2006 - 1:33 am
Yeah, WTFs with the etiquette lessons?
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, March 10, 2006 - 9:23 am
Yeah, Wendo, I thought that myself. I know a lot of white people and I don't know that anyone of them has gone to an etiquette lesson.
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