h/t: Michelle Malkin

I've been seeing a ton of commercials for the new FX reality show "Black. White.", and ever since the first one I've had a slight interest and a basic assumption about the program. The premise of the show is the classic "live in someone else's shoes, and get a different perspective" show (like the wife swap shows, etc.). The difference is that in this show a black family and a white family switch places by wearing make-up to look like the other race. Sounds a tad interesting, but my assumption was (and appears to have been correct) is that the show sets out to say "look how bad black Americans have it" to the white guy and have the black guy get treated like a king when he's in "white face" so that he can make baseless claims that he would have been treated worse if he were just himself.

Looks to me just like that liberal Morgan Spurlock's joke of a show "30 Days" (also from FX). You know the guy who had previously made a fast food bashing "documentary" by eatting nothing but fast food and throwing a fit that he got fat. He then got his own FX show which he had predetermined outcomes that clearly revealed his far-leftedness in every episode. I seem to recall that he actually admitted that he had done this, specifically when someone had to live with a Muslim family for 30 days. Seems to be a bit of the information I'm remembering here, but I'm not digging for any more right now. To busy, and this post is about the new show.

Well as I said, those assumptions were only that, and I didn't wind up catching the show, but LaShawn Barber did and seems to confirm exactly what I suspected was the premise of the show. She writes a review for Town Hall here.

Below is her conclusion, read the entire review here.

A more edifying documentary would be one based on class differences rather than skin color. For instance, the black, married, professional, and middle-class Sparkes cohabitating with a black, poor, working or welfare-dependant inner-city mother with fatherless children would be quite instructive. The crisis of fatherless children is infinitely more important than petty surface perceptions and prejudices about race.

But such a show would be too real for reality TV.

Again, that is just Barber's final conclusion, but she tears apart a lot of the double standards and obvious set goals of the show throughout the review. She's right on with all of her points, but I'd like to add a bit more... Beyond the "class" experiment , would be attitude. I'm sure in almost all situations, any polite black person who is respectful and has a "normal" attitude would be treated the same as a white person acting the same way. But if you've get some black guy who's all about the thug life hip-hop culture strolling up with a mad at the world and the man, whitey's holdin' me down attitude, I'm sure he would be treated differently... But no differently than some idiotic suburban white kid trying to project the same image (and we all know there are tons of them too.) How a person is treated, generally, has a lot more to do with their attitude and "vibe" they put out than the color of their skin.

I'm actually trying to rush this right now to get back to some other things, so I've lost my train of thought a number of times. Basically though, I just wanted you to read LaShawn Barber's review. Of course watch the program too, to make up your mind if she's accurate, but until I do, I'm going to assume she's probably right, considering it's the impression I got just from the commercials, and what we know about with 30 Days.

In somewhat related double racial standard news, Michelle Malkin is blogging about and made thesubject of her most recent column, a black racist little 7 year old girl. Malkin details the girl's ties to and support from all the usual black hate groups, and that she's being treated as some sort of genius. The media seems to be missing the story, but they are all to happy to jump all over it if the little hater is white. Remember? Anyway, when you get done reading LaShawn Barber's review, be sure to check out Michelle Malkin's post and column on this weird and (a little) scary story.