Wild Bike Thief Video Analysis

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During the WWYD bike thief video, what I learned about humanity was that, people sometimes step up, but most people don’t. There was this white male trying to take a bike, most everyone just walked past, but every once in a while, somebody stepped up. People were even trying to help him cut the chain. The black male was very different. Mostly everyone that walked by had something to say about it, a lot more than the white male. Then we switch on to the white female. Everyone helped her. No-one came up to her and asked things like,”Hey, what are you doing.” This shows that stereotypes are made more about black people than white people. This is called Implicit Bias. It’s sad to think about these types of things because all around we’re all people …show more content…
The leash is apparently called a safety harness, so it goes around their waste instead of their neck. This firsts starts out as a mom with a girl and a boy. She walks to a pole and ties them to it. A girl all the way across the street, walks to her. She says things like,” this isn’t right, why are you doing this, these children aren’t dogs.” They set it up again, but this time it’s a nanny with four kids. The lady goes by and a teenager takes a picture of it and says something. They reset again, but now, the lady has a dog with her too. She is walking down the street and ties the kids to a pole. She takes the dog with her into the store and mostly everyone around had something to say. They reset it one last time and she asks people to hold her kids for her. This mother, has a whole lot to say. She says,” this isn’t right and i’m calling the police.” In my opinion, this isn’t right at all. But of course this is my opinion and other people might have something to say about it. My final thoughts are that people care about these types of things. What this shows about humanity is that's even though there not your kids, to still have care for things like

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