>> A GROUP OF CAROLERS IN KENTUCKY THOUGHT IT MIGHT
BE A GOOD IDEA TO DO A FUN PRANK WHERE THEY APPROACH
UNSUSPECTING INDIVIDUALS AND START CAROLING TO THEM.
THERE IS A RACE COMPONENT TO THIS.
IT IS A GROUP OF BLACK MEN THAT ARE PURPOSELY DRESSED IN
WHAT IS CONSIDERED AN INTIMIDATING WAY.
THE REACTIONS FROM PEOPLE THEY APPROACH ARE INTERESTING.
LET'S TAKE A QUICK LOOK.
>> STRANGERS ñ LET'S JUST SAY NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH TOOK ON
A WHOLE NEW MEANING.
YET, PANIC QUICKLY TURNED TO PRAISE.
>> ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
>> THE A CAPPELLA GROUP PULLED THIS ALL AROUND AND THE
REACTIONS ARE ALL THE SAME.
THIS GUY ANSWERS SCARED, AND THEN CALLS FOR HIS WIFE.
A LADY STOPPED IN THEIR TRACKS AND STUTTERED IN DISBELIEF.
THE OFFICER IN A BANK STANDS TO ATTENTION THE MOMENT THE
GUYS ENTER.
AND BY THE END SINGS RIGHT ALONG.
>> PRETTY MUCH THE MESSAGE IS, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE
BLACK OR WHITE, YOU CAN'T BE JUDGED BY WHAT YOU HAVE ON.
>>IN THE POST GAME FOR THE MEMBERS I WANT TO DISCUSS
WHETHER
A CAPPELLA GROUPS ñ
>> I LOVE THIS STORY.
FIRST OF ALL, YOU CAN'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER, BUT IF SIX
DUDES OF ANY RACE ARE COMING AT ME LIKE THAT I WILL BACK UP.
LET'S KEEP IT REAL.
>> I AM GOING TO KEEP IT EXTRA REAL.
LOOK, PART OF GROWING AS AN INDIVIDUAL IS UNDERSTANDING
YOUR OWN BIASES AND FAULTS.
IF I WAS IN A PARKING LOT AND I WAS APPROACHED BY FIVE GUYS
THAT LOOK LIKE THEM, I WOULD BE SCARED.
IF I WAS APPROACHED BY FIVE GUYS THAT LOOK LIKE THEY WENT TO
HARVARD, I WOULD NOT BE INTIMIDATED.
THE WAY THEY LOOK DOES MATTER UNFORTUNATELY, THAT IS WHY
I AM BIASED.
>> IF A MAN FROM HARVARD HAS THEIR
SWEATER VEST ON, AND THEY
CAN BE JUST AS BLACK, I WOULD THINK NOTHING OF IT.
YOU WILL NOT GET INTIMIDATED.
BUT THEY ARE WEARING CLOTHES- ALL THE CONTEXT MATTERS.
IF IT IS SIX YOUNG BLACK KIDS THAT SHOW UP AT YOUR DOOR,
HONESTLY I WILL TELL YOU MY BIAS, I WILL THINK THEY
WERE GOING TO SELL CANDY.
I ACTUALLY THINK THIS STORY EVENTUALLY BECOMES GREAT.
I AM HEARTENED BY THE WHITE REACTION
OF THE STORY.
RACISM HAS A GREAT SPECTRUM OF DEGREES.
THERE IS A LOT OF UNDERSTATED UNDERTONES OF RACISM.
THAT IS VERY REAL AND AFFECTS PEOPLE.
BUT TO THE CREDIT OF EVERYONE IN THIS VIDEO, IT'S THAT ONCE
THEY REALIZE WHAT IS GOING ON ñ IF THE GUY WAS AN OVERT
RACIST, HE WOULDN'T CARE THAT THEY WERE SINGING A CAPPELLA.
HE JOINS IN AND HUGS THEM AT THE END.
>> YES, THAT IS ALL GOOD.
MAYBE I AM BEING TOO GRUMPY, BUT DID THEY SEE CAMERAS POINTED?
IF THEY DID MAYBE THEY WILL ACT DIFFERENTLY?
DO YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
THEY COULD JUST BE GREAT PEOPLE THEY GET SCARED AT FIRST
AND SAY OH GREAT, A CAPPELLA MUSIC.
PERSONALLY I DON'T LIKE PEOPLE SINGING TO ME SO I WOULD
NOT OPEN THE DOOR.
IT MAKES ME UNCOMFORTABLE.
HOW UNCOMFORTABLE IS IT WHEN PEOPLE SING TO YOU?
ADMIT IT.
>> IT'S TOO RUDE NOT TO OPEN THE DOOR.
>> I JUST DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH IT.