6/10
One sided documentary that has it's interesting moments
18 September 2019
Warning: Spoilers
The biggest flaw in my opinion of this documentary is in the handling of its subject, white privilige. While it is accusing white people in general of being privileged it accidentely shows the real problem in America. The gap between the rich and the poor, heck even between the rich and the middle class illustrated by the white redneck rapper in the middle of the documentary. In court, he himself (poor), a black kid (poor) and another white rich kid all stand trial and off course the rich kid walks out, while the other two go to jail. This illustrates it perfectly. You have no difference between white or black, but you have a difference in income and hidden behind that is the dark shadow of privatization of the prison system, where prisoners become lucrative milking cows to the rich. Even in the documentary they really can't make it out what that white privilige actually consists of. Everything mentioned comes with assertions, like with Kevin Hart, he complains he had to lobby his ass off, that he had to work hard to get noticed. Is he really thinking that all white comedians just walk in the door and get a gig because of their skin? He forgets about the 1000 other white comedians that failed. I think this documentary exposes lots of biases from both sides but fails to acknowledge the real issues that are splitting up America and in it's message only adds to the problem.
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