On race and Survivor

"On the new season of Survivor, the four teams are a white team, a black team, a Hispanic team and an Asian team... They should replace Jeff Probst with Mel Gibson, just for fun."
- Jimmy Kimmel (from Time)

Probst (or the heads of CBS) wanted more diversity on the show, so he decided to recruit more minorities. Diversity = yay, good stuff! But then he had the brilliant idea of splitting them up according to race and having the races battle each other in a survival struggle.

I'm sure Dr. Brown would have a few choice words to say about this. :P

I can just see another Global Color Line Race video coming out of this. Imagine: Dr. Probst discovers that it's actually Hispanics who have an extra leg muscle that allows them to run faster. And Asians' mongoloid facial structure -- just like blacks' ape-like bone inclinations -- make them closer to beasts, and those animal characteristics give them an unfair advantage in winning the show. For greatest fairness, though, Probst publicly displays his four teams at a fair, so the general public can compare and contrast them and make up their own minds.

It really disgusts me that CBS would pit racial teams against each other for entertainment on national television. Okay, it may be a clever way to get a lot of free press, but it's one thing to get free press out of, say, exposing yourself during the Super Bowl, and another to do it by exploiting racial tension.

Sorry about the rant, but this just really bothered me, and especially after everything we talked about at TASP.

A penny for your thoughts?

On a happier note, things are going great with me. I'm enjoying my last week of summer -- lazed around in the pool, went for sushi, played badminton (haha, such is the post-volleyball downward spiral), joined a gym, generally hung out with people.

Also, a general frustrated question: WHYYYY is Jung on our Art History reading list -- does he write anywhere about art? Any art? At all? I'm about halfway through, and so far, nothing. [What in the world?]