I was watching our weekly fill of the show Survivor, and I'm sure the folks that choose the participants do consider the possible/plausible reactions folks are likely to have, when placed with so many other strangers, on some island, eating rice all the time. Point being, there's a participant, who keeps referencing that he's a "Federal Agent", with the consistent "?" always placed after it. He also happens to be African American. he also happens to be quite....shall I say, a little "off the wall", in his antics. Well, he and another participant, began to argue about the rice, and it apparently got quite heated, and our "Agent" was definitely getting a little ridiculous, not in his demands, but in how he was demanding it. Well, the other participant tried to blow it off, by saying "you're crazy", by which the agent concurred, with the obvious tone of trying to make himself appear more "dangerous". Our "agent" then proceded to pull the race care, claiming that's why he was called "crazy". Not because of any of his rhetoric or antics, but because he was black. He then started using the N-word, in every other sentence (bleeped of course for TV)
It was quite the picture of "race relations", all rolled up in a reality show. Yes, there are editors, and yes, its likely the editing painted a greater perspective of what the producers & editors wished to show its viewers. That said, I have no doubt that our fine "Federal Agent" was serious when he made the accusations. Just as I have no doubt that the fella that said he was crazy, had absolutely no racial animosity or hateful intent, when he rightly called our "Agent" crazy
