Only from the world of FOX: New reality show where families switch race

LynneSin

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Fri Dec-09-05 01:30 PM
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Only from the world of FOX: New reality show where families switch race

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/09/D8ECI5GG2.html

LOS ANGELES - A black family learns what it's like to be white while a white family becomes black in the six-part documentary series "Black.White," scheduled for broadcast on the FX cable network in March. Makeup temporarily transforms the two families for the series developed by filmmaker R.J. Cutler and actor-rapper Ice Cube.

"The loud message of the show is that we are a divided nation," said Cutler, who won an Emmy for outstanding reality program for "American High." "But we can come together if we're willing to talk about our differences and work to see the world through the eyes of other people."
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For the run of the show, the Sparks family of Atlanta and the Wurgel family of Santa Monica share a home in the San Fernando Valley.

But with makeup, Brian and Renee Sparks and their son, Nick, are transformed from black to white. Bruno and Carmen Wurgel and their daughter, Rose, become black.

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sakabatou

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Fri Dec-09-05 01:42 PM
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1. How low can the networks go?

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Loonman

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Fri Dec-09-05 01:43 PM
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2. Eddie Murphy did it better..and funnier

On SNL.

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Brewman_Jax

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Fri Dec-09-05 01:53 PM
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3. This college student did it for real

reprising John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me in Black Like Me '94. He didn't have much fun.

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madinmaryland

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Fri Dec-09-05 01:58 PM
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4. Interesting premise . . .

But leave it to fox to f*** it up and simpsonize or bin-rielly-ize it.

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