Using amateur footage collected over the years, the video documents white voices reflecting on race, racism, and white identity. Mark has been talking to white people about racism and what it’s like to be “white” for over a decade. This documentary is drawn from those willing to talk to him and share what they had to say.
Here are some testimonials: “I admit without hesitation that I am a racist. I find it ridiculous to try to fight it. I grew up in this society, I was conditioned by it, I thought in my heart.” , these attitudes are deeply ingrained, and I see them all the time. ”
“I don’t like being white, I like it because I know what I’ve done, what people like me have done. Part of being white is not acknowledging in any way what it means to be white. I’m white and white brings A lot of the privileges I have, I don’t ask for them, they’re there.”
How did the ancestors become “white” people? “You can only be something if there’s something else to negate, so I think we chose to be white because there were so many other races that put us off. The reason was assimilation in America, when a lot of European groups for various reasons Over and assimilated, first and foremost, to improve their socioeconomic status.”
“To get a job, to find a place to live, many Europeans changed their surname to sound more mainstream, many of them changed the clothes they wore, the food they ate, so they conformed to the dominant White culture.”
“The reality is that those who are white and who are socially seen and seen as white because of being white have to give up who they really are. All these European ethnic groups who are not white Anglo-Saxon Protestants have to give up their de facto identity, turned white.”
