New Show: Black.White
 

Families Switch Places in 'Black.White'
LOS ANGELES — A black family learns what it's like to be white while a white family becomes black in the six-part documentary series "Black.White," scheduled for broadcast on the FX cable network in March.

Makeup temporarily transforms the two families for the series developed by filmmaker R.J. Cutler and actor-rapper Ice Cube.

"The loud message of the show is that we are a divided nation," said Cutler, who won an Emmy for outstanding reality program for "American High." "But we can come together if we're willing to talk about our differences and work to see the world through the eyes of other people."

For the run of the show, the Sparks family of Atlanta and the Wurgel family of Santa Monica share a home in the San Fernando Valley.

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Sounds like an interesting show. How do you think your daily existance would be different if you were a different race?

I'll be watching! :)

I'll be watching as well.

Here is the show's website: http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/orig...hite/main.html

Show premieres March 8, 2006:)

Watch the first 5 minutes of the first episode as well as pictures, polls, and other footage including music video by Ice Cube called "Race Card."

http://tv.yahoo.com/feature/blackwhite.html

Tonight at 10 EST/9 Central

WOW @ the opening segment.

his name is Bruno Wurgle??? HAHAHA

WHAT THE HAYLE DID HE JUST SAY????????????????

Be able to jump like these guys:mad:

Fa real.

The Black family that became white doesn't look very believable to me as white people. I would think they were bi-racial.:confused:

or middle eastern

ok Bruno is killing me "actual Black people" As if he's lived with copies or something

"hi 5 everybody" :o :eek:

This show should get hella Emmys.

I think the kids are going to have an easier transition

Brian was about to jump across that table and beat him down

Hayle yeah

Renee is SO not passing

Hayle naw she walked like a sista and sat like a sista.


Bruno is loooooving to use the N word.

With her big ol sista booty

Quote:

Bruno is loooooving to use the N word.

Tell me about it. He think just cause he look Black he can get away with it. I'm telling you if Bryan don't do it Renee is goin WHIP HIS ASS. Cause Renee look like she ghetto

Do car dealerships count in the scheme of racism

Bruno should have went to more car dealerships to see a TRUE experience.

Dear Bruno,

You're friends with Damon Wayans, aren't you?:rolleyes:

It is official - they have found the DUMBEST ASS white people on the planet & put them into a TV show. I am staying tuned for the knock down drag out that Renee is about to start -- and I'll be cheering for her too.

If Bruno really thinks that he is going to walk around looking for a fight over the n word, then it truly shows his ignorance. I don't use or condone the use of the word, but I know that racist acts go a lot deeper than that - he just has no damn good sense.

The black family looks bi-racial to me too - the dad looks sort of Jewish to me. The best looking transformation is the white girl to the black girl.

Oh - and for the record - Renee had me CTHU with her "swimming & tennis" as hobbies - if those are requirements of being white, then I have surely failed the test.

Its like a train wreck - you can't help but watch and you know all along that you aren't going to like what you see. The white people are just.damn.stupid.

Oh heaven forbid....the negroes are coming

The scene at the bar. . . .WOW


AXO, I agree, the teenage girl's transformation appearance is the most realistic. As she read her poem :eek: at her topic, lol. The faces of her audience was hilarious.

If I were able to transform, I would have to do a lot of WHOOOOOOOOO SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. This takes Wife Swap and Trading Spouses to a whole new level.

I missed that part - I had to go shower - I felt dirty after watching the stupidity :p I was "yelling" at the TV the whole time I was in the shower. I keep hoping that someone will jump out and shout "Candid Camera" to the black family & the white family will admit that they were acting this stupid for kicks -- alas, I don't think that will be happening.

The only thing they need to add to this show is Kelly from American Idol -- although her IQ may kick it up a few notches for the white family :rolleyes:

why do I agree with both of them

BRUNO, PLEASE STFU!!!!!! :mad:

LOL at all of your comments. I am watching it now, as I try to type this final paper.
The black family looked worse at being white but the white family actually looked better as black.
Rose definitely has the look out of all of them. She looks like this girl that goes to school here.

Yeah really. How are they passing as white?
That d*** Bruno is getting on my last nerves!
When he kept debating back and forth about racism I wanted to punch him myself. Also he seems to like to use the N word a lot. Why don't they put him a real situation? For example the car dealership. They should have sent him to a luxury car dealership or somewhere talking about he has jacked up credit. Better yet he should've taken his 'boys' (maybe 4 or 5 deep) with him and see if he got the same treatment. :rolleyes:

i posted over on AKA ave, but im not particularly impressed. im so madddddd cause i had high hopes :(

hayle, IM ready to beat bruno down. aside from Rose, who seems really open and honest, i dont know how inclined to watch it anymore.

i'm real mad at the etiquette lessions. like black folks dont know how to act at the dinner table?

p.s. i dont know any white people who have taken etiquette classes. but i have, and i'm not white or middle class.

what happens if anyone is found out? Rose keeps saying that shes scared people are gonna know she's white, but what if someone calls her on it?

i guess i have to watch huh?

Exactly. Bruno needs to go to the Benz dealership not Carmax.

The show repeats Sunday night at midnight.

ETA: USA Today review gives it 1 1/2 stars out of 4

Yeah. Also, why does the son look like Michael Jackson in his makeup? The white daughter looked the most authentic; the white father looked like someone coated him with shoe polish.

I am somewhat disappointed; I really wish that they had gone a lot deeper. If they had kept the participants in their makeup for the entire time of the filming so that they could become immersed in the experience it would ring more true to me. Taking the makeup off at the end of the day makes all of the experiences superficial IMHO.

I will continue to watch it though.

I instantly thought of GC when I read this!
 

Color Commentary
FX's creepy new race-swap show.
By Troy Patterson
Posted Wednesday, March 8, 2006, at 4:59 PM ET

The first problem with Black. White. (FX, Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET) as a serious documentary about race relations is also its first asset as an uncommonly charged bit of reality TV: The show's central figure, Bruno Marcotulli, is a regular guy with a big mouth and a closed mind. While he's a lousy lab rat—too stubborn and dumb to produce anything that might be described as a "thought" about race—he's an excellent jackass, and his personality is as good a mirror as any for reflecting some of the grotesque curlicues of American society.

Bruno and his family (partner Carmen Wurgel and her 18-year-old daughter, Rose) are the white family participating in a two-way project about passing. They share a house in the San Fernando Valley with a black family, the Sparkses (father Brian, mother Renee, and son Nick), and each of the six climbs into the chair of an Oscar-nominated makeup artist for a convincing racial makeover a few times each week. The producers then loose them upon greater Los Angeles—Beverly Hills to Baldwin Hills, Santa Monica to Leimert Park—tracking them on cameras that are hidden within handbags or present under the pretense that the filmmakers are simply doing a project about "family."

Grinning, good-humored Bruno is creepy on several levels. You could chalk up the fact that he is plainly turned on at first seeing Carmen in her makeup to universal perversities about sex and color, but how to account for the tear streaming down his blackface? He signed up for the show in a confrontational spirit. "I just wanted to really poke into the issue of race and see if any flames would emerge," he tells the camera near the top of tonight's episode. Elsewhere, he's kind of bummed out upon leaving a black comedy club, "I wish they had done more white jokes, frankly." And when he says, "I'm kind of waiting for somebody to say, 'Hey, n*****r!' " he does so in a tone that others might use to say, "I can't wait to see V for Vendetta."

Read the rest here....

Soror I agree. I thought that they would stay "in character" for all 6 weeks. Taking it off makes it seem like they are just going to a costume party or taking a vacation away from life as a ____ person.

yeah i wondered that too...

i feel bad that the show isnt getting favorable reviews. i wonder how ice cube feels... maybe he let corpAmer get in the way of the message?

Bruno doesn't look Black. That's the first problem. He looks like an Indian or someone with a horrible tan. So, I really don't see him getting treated Black that often.

The Black people all look ridiculous. Renee just looks light skinned, Brian looks mixed, and the son looks like a MJ impersonator.

Rose will probably get the most out of this. Bruno just wants to prove that the nice guy always wins, but he's not in any realistic situations. He's shopping in a wealthy area where they are going to be highly service oriented, regardless of race.

I really want to know where they are going that requires African garb. What Black people have they seen dress like that? Also, there's nothing that stops them from wearing that stuff as white people.

Thanks Conskeeted, that is just what is wrong with this show. They don't look real. The only real looking one is the daughter. She looks better black. I think she is the one who is really in for the learning experience and maybe the son.

Renee does not look white. Personally, I don't even like her. Too much ghetto attitude. I thought someone in the "group" she was with would say something (was this even real? :rolleyes: cause she really looks Hispanic or just a light-skinned sister wearing a wig)

The biggest problem I have is with the white Dad (Bruno). He is the biggest dummy!!! And the black Dad (Brian) aint that far behind him.

All in all I think that this show will really win some awards!!!!


(Just jiving yall, just jiving)

"Jiving" (who the hell says that anymore?) :rolleyes:

I saw it too and had a few laughs.

Bruno is just plain. He may never see what Brian sees and Brain wants him to see "IT", but Bruno wants someone to call him a N****r so he can be proud of his reaction.

Rose is my girl. We could hang. When she was in character and at the poem slam, I could relate. I've been in situations like Rose, where I am talking and people kinda back away from me. Or don't know how to react to thing I say. I had a lady tell me that I do to talk too proper and she could not understand what I was saying because I used "big words". I encounter this at work, when I'm talking and I see my clients parents kinda back away from me and give me this, "I don't understand you look". But I've gotten use to it.