I was watching this show that captured peoples reactions when they didn't know they were being watched. There were several scenarios presented, but one stuck out to me. In a park there was a domestic dispute where a man was beating a woman(gf/bf) bystanders immediately went to help the white woman, yet take the same scenario, just change colors- when the black man was beating the black women, only one lady stopped to try and help. Others looked on, and a few even said in an annoyed tone "take this somewhere else". Do you think society subconciously feels blacks are subhuman, or that they don't sympathize with them the way they would a non black? Both scenarios were equal, both scenarios the woman was cowering and the man was being abusive.

Is it supposed to matter if the bystanders are predominantly black or white ?

They were white, as well as the ONLY lady/person who tried to help the black lady.

If you had a white couple having a fight in an all black neighborhood, do you suppose the folks there would intervene ? I don't.



Big Bro

Very true I think both are equally suspicious of the other.

I've never really been or lived in an all black neighborhood, but I don't find it far fetched that bystanders might try to help a woman thats getting the crap beat out of her. I didn't create this thread to put one race above the other, but I am trying to figure out if we are just more inclined to be sympathetic to our own. Take for example when we see wailing mothers over in I-STAN, and our hearts really don't break. Yet we can see grieving crying parents here in the US, who lost their son and or daughter in Iraq, and all the sudden we can now sympathize.