Upon
completing my latest blog, I became curious about some of the other societal
issues that John Quinones explores on the show What Would You Do? on ABC. I decided to watch several clips of
different scenarios on youtube.com. One clip in particular seemed to relate to
my previous blog. It was about shopping as an African American. It basically
showed a racist storeowner investigating a black female in the store and in
certain instances, having her searched by the security guard. Here’s the clip:
I
found the results that they got from this experiment to be quite interesting.
The strongest reactions, according to Quinones, came from people of color.
However, while there were a few reactions from white shoppers, most of them remained
bystanders. In comparison with the experiment with the Muslim woman in the
bakery, many more people not of her same race stood up for her than did for the
black woman. In fact, only one person of a minority race was shown to side with
the Muslim woman at the bakery, while the rest of them seemed to be white.
However, most of the people defending the black woman were also black. Is this
a coincidence, or is this a pattern?
Why
did more white people stand up for the Muslim woman than for the black woman?
Do non-minority Americans feel more compelled to defend certain minorities over
others? If so, why?
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