joining us is robert greenwald the producer for racism is real was there something specific that inspired this film or was it a big kind of crescendo that said i have to make it? it was the combination of the number of studies that have been done where over and over with respect to academics in harvard and berkeley and columbia and all over the country, chicago, were sending out identical resumes only they would change the names, and by the way, this was in boston and chicago, it wasn t in the deep south, and those resumes that had overtly white sounding names, got a call to come in for a job 50% more than the black sounding names. exactly the same resumes.
folks who say the problem is over they should quit complaining. robert, if there was something you hope people could do in terms of taking action to bring about change in society what would you hope that would be? well, on the racial front i think there s a variety of things. lots of great groups to get involved with, who work on housing and job discrimination and driving while black and not incarcerating black people. so pick your area pick the subject, pick the thing that emotionally gets to you and then go out and get involved. there s a tremendous amount of work and some really critical work being done by activists and, of course, what we re seeing in baltimore and ferguson and some of those, our next video is going to focus on the police brutality all across the country. okay. robert greenwald you have an open envyinvitation when that s all done. thank you so much. this time the video racism for real. as his city burned edward buck jr. turned a tragic moment into
voters care. they don t seem to care in iowa. the question is what will this mean for donors and moneyp. we certainly have the invisible primary continuing to go on. will governor christie still be able to get important financial backers. they re saying they re very confident that this doesn t affect him at all but we ll have to see. heather hadden from the wall street journal thank you very much. a video about racism is rapidly climbing the youtube charts having received almost 1 million views. the film racism is real shocking statistics about the pervasiveness in many areas of life. some of these may come as a surprise. take a peek.
guns we re trying to use our ability as storytellers to make available to people information, stories, personal facts, and for them to see and experience and this film by the way in just a few days has now had over 10 million views between youtube and facebook and we ve had over a million comments. that s a real conversation not all those comments have been pretty, some of the arguments are tough and mean spirited but it s a conversation that has to happen and it has to happen among people who get up in the morning and say, there s no racism, why don t they just try harder. why aren t they getting a job, why aren t they doing this that or the other thing. here s some factsp in a video that s accessible to everybody and what s been most satisfying has been people passing it along to other people and white people passing it along. a lot of african-americans certainly know this exists but this was oriented to many white
and we saw this with jobs we saw this with housing, alex where 20% less homes were shown to african-americans. now yes, it has improved where the overt clearly blacks can sit at lunch counters and people can t obviously discriminate against homes but if you re not shown ohms it reduces homes it reduces the possibility of you getting the homes you want. it was the studies, the academics and it was firm proof that racism continues today different ways different forms but it s sadly alive and well. yeah. sadly indeed. a question is posed to virs at end of your film about racism is. what are you hoping this individual starts some sort of public discourse about what racism is all about, how to define it? yeah. that s exactly right. what we do with all of our films whether the koch brothers or walmart or films on drones or