Video Calls Out Catcallers, But Cuts Out White Men [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 11/5/144:00 AM

There's a video that's been circulating online since Tuesday, and it frames itself like this: a woman walks around New York City for 10 hours, with a camera secretly recording as she gets street-called 100 times by men.

The woman who does the walking is Shoshana Roberts. Most of the men who street-harass, call out and follow her are black and Latino. Noticeably absent from the video? White men.

It's something a lot of people noted.

"The racial politics of the video are [f*****] up," the author Roxane Gay commented on Twitter. "Like, she didn't walk through any white neighborhoods?"

[For more of this story, written by Kat Chow, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/codes...t-cuts-out-white-men]

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