Angry, White and American

I was hoping to find something that would help me understand the mindset of the people in the film, but instead I got an angry man who just wanted to argue with them. I don't blame him for wanting to argue with them, but that's not what I and most other viewers wanted to see. I couldn't watch the whole thing.

At what time did reporters start to debate everyone they talk to. Let's also mention that it's crazy to me he only interviewed people from the south. What about the whole western united states. Do there opinions on race and America not matter. This "documentary" is full of ignorance. Not to mention at one point in time you said the rebel flag is a flag that denies your freedom. You my friend were never denied freedom, nobody alive right now was a slave and nobody alive right now was a slave owner, that comment again was pure ignorance.

Statistics, data & open dialogue could lead the film to other places. Probing is good if it opens a genuine conversation to the issues occurring in America. Anecdotal interviews won't paint the entire landscape of the current state in most of the southern & steel towns face; it's complexity is deeper than that. The issue becomes when Younge's own biases & perception of "White" Americans clouds the viewer's opportunity to dissect & interpret for themselves. Good attempt but falls short of what I as a viewer would have liked to interpret & analyze myself. Nonetheless, the film's efforts are there to get a glimpse & performed a further analysis at one's own time.

Gary Younge, the so called jouralist walks out. He is argumentative. Does not want to listen. He clearly ALREADY has his mind and his side made up. Almost a complete waste of time. This was simply stupid to even create. Did he come over just to get mad and argue with white people in the USA?

White anger amounts to an explosive issue of our time. As subject matter, it's broad in scope while Younge has only an hour to crowd in the material. Then too, I wonder how willing White respondents were to level with a Black interviewer, a pertinent unaddressed factor. Along the hour length thread, host Gary Younge strings out a series of separate interviews with White spokespeople, business owners and ordinary citizens, along with intersectional travels mainly from north to south.

All in all, the thread results in fairly representative citizen opinion among growing White frustrations over race, culture, and the economy. Black man Younge is confrontational with only one interviewee, namely leading White separatist Richard Spencer, which seems understandable given Spencer's reputation. Otherwise, Younge asks probing questions without arguing over those he might disagree with. Chief among the opinions are growing White concern with working class decline, increasing dependency on opioid drugs, and the diminishing percentage of Whites among the general population. Generally these opinions are phrased in non-partisan political manner though Trump is often mentioned as a figure of White hope. Anyway, it's a worthwhile hour without being anything special, the responses probably reaffirming what most concerned folks already know. Nonetheless, for those less informed, it's likely a good introduction to a leading challenge of our time.