My favorite version of this trick was on Michael Moore's TV Nation. He had black movie star Yaphet Kotto (Live and Let Die, Homicide: Life on the Streets) try to hail a cab in New York. Halfway up the block from Kotto, they had a white convicted murderer also trying to hail a cab. Over 30 cabs passed by Kotto to pick up the murderer, despite increasingly elaborate stunts to increase Kotto's visibility. Not one cab stopped for the black man, even when they placed a big flashing arrow pointing to him on the corner, and had a clown with a big bunch of balloons stand next to him pointing.

oh man that's terrible but that sounds FRICKING HILARIOUS.

check out my blog-start-of-a-book on blogger.com site. One or two little vignettes may make for stereotypical shallow "reality" tv items, or for amusing gags on a comedy program; however, I'm imagining an >entire nation

prejudice -while we all (well some of us) view it as ignorence and feel it is wrong, It is also a reaction of fear, past experience, and learned views. The taxi driver passing the black guy for the white man on the street is thinking of his tip, the last black guy in his cab, and the stories passed around by other cabbies. As an 9 year old black girl I was attacked for my light skin, long hair, and proper speech by whites who said I was trying to be white and by blacks who said the same thing. As an adult..when I am in a situation where I feel defensive, my past experience makes me wonder about the motivation and it taints my interactions with both races.

i think this is a joke to both the white and black community. and this should not even be discussed. by now not many black people are still wishing to be white. but on the other hand everyone wants to be black. but still i m offended that anyone would go to this extant just for tv ratings. and the people that agreed to take par in this wether white or black disgust me. however i aint gonna lie i will watch the show.

This is something alot of people think is not around, which is racism, its like mc hammer said "its there way, but its still the same game". The people on the board have just changed the players but the reactions are still stupidity and ignorance. Life is to short for such stupidity, ALWAYS REMEMBER, THE LORDS SKIN WAS OF AN OLIVE, NOT AN ONION. So people you best wake up, just in pictures i see in the world, he is potrayed as white sharp nose, straight hair, and if i recall in my bible his hair is of a wool. EVERYONE BEST LOOK UP AND PRAY, WE ARE ALL THE SAME.

Racism has been around since the beginning of time. I'm part Asian and in Asian culture there are problems with racism between the Chinese, Japanese and other nationalities. It's been going on FOREVER. It's a fight that will probably go on for a long time. Frankly I don't think that making TV shows like Trading Races is going to solve the problem. I think it just makes animosity between people. I'd be talking about the "Black Oscar" ceremony to make a difference. I think that's ignored racism. If there was a "White Oscars", there would be so much negativity! I'm not saying that that having different groups is a bad thing. Just that if we allow one, we should allow the other. So that it's fair to all parties involved. Maybe we should have an Asian Oscar?