It appears as though MTV will be airing a new showed aimed at basically making Caucasians feel guilty about the color of their skin. I have mixed emotions on it.

The show, called White People, will air on MTV Wednesday, July 22. While I have mixed emotions on the show, MTV is free to air whatever they like and I will probably tune in just to get a full grasp of what the true meaning of the show is. So, what is it all about? This is what MTV says,

What does it mean to be white? MTV’s “White People” is a groundbreaking documentary on race that aims to answer that question from the viewpoint of young white people living in America today. The film follows Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and filmmaker, Jose Antonio Vargas, as he travels across the country to get this complicated conversation started. “White People” asks what’s fair when it comes to affirmative action, if colorblindness is a good thing, what privilege really means, and what it’s like to become the “white minority” in your neighborhood. For more information on “White People” and to join the conversation, head to race.lookdifferent.org - MTV

My main issue with this whole concept is that it does nothing for racism. No one should have to feel guilty about the color of their skin. Slavery ended long ago and I am not entirely sure why we haven't long since moved past that. Do I feel guilty about slavery? Of course not. Even Abraham Lincoln, who abolished slavery, was good friends with many slave owners and he is even on record as telling the black race that even though he was ending slavery, they would always be considered a second class citizen; many don't know that. Although he though slavery was wrong, he still considered the black man beneath him.

Bottom line is that it doesn't matter what the color of your skin is, or your nationality, there is good and bad in all of us. As for the show, I'd love to be on it as it would give me the chance to tell it like it is and how I truly feel about the color of my skin. You wouldn't see my crying because I felt guilty and I'm sure they screened people very carefully so they wouldn't get people like me, or you, on the show.

Here's the irony of this whole thing, and where I have an issue with the show. The host, Jose Antonio Vargas, revealed in 2011 that he is in fact an undocumented immigrant. Then in 2012, after Time ran a story he wrote about his continued uncertainty regarding his immigration status, the Obama administration announced,

...it was halting the deportation of undocumented immigrants age 30 and under, who would be eligible for the DREAM Act. Vargas, who had just turned 31, did not qualify.

Then last July, Vargas was arrested by immigration authorities while trying to fly out of the border town of McAllen, Texas. As of today, he has been living as an illegal immigrant here in the United States for 22 years holding jobs at the Huffington Post, Washington Post now MTV apparently.

How is this even possible?

So, now we have a show on TV that is being hosted by an admitted illegal immigrant (who makes more than most of us reading this story) trying to make white people "feel uncomfortable" because their white? Can you imagine the backlash if they did a show called 'Black People?' Especially if it was done by an American citizen?

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