STREET HARASSMENT VIDEO: Were White Men Edited Out?

A video by the anti-street harassment organization Hollaback! in creating a lively debate about whether minorities are more likely than whites to harass women. In the video, a white actress named Shoshana B. Roberts is show walking through New York city for 10 hours during which time the producer claimed she was verbally harassed more than 100 times from men of "all backgrounds."

Yet commentators have pointed out that out of the 20 plus men shown in the two-minute clip, only a few are white. Emily May, Hollaback's executive director, tells The New York Times that the number of white men filmed actually is "pretty much even with the racial demographics of New York City" and that it's important to "acknowledge that everyone experiences street harassment totally differently."

But on Black Twitter, many people thought Hollaback! was attempting to target black men:

@LEXercise: So wait, that so-called "street harassment" video was edited to show black men were the only ones calling that white chic? SMH #NotSuprised

@adept2u "Why "street harassment" = White woman being spoken to by Black men not touched"

@MyNameIsUche: "Who knew that saying "hey" (and just hey) to a woman had become harassment?

@SkillzVa "I watched that vid, some of it was harassment, but a guy saying 'how you doing, beautiful" ain't harassment. Y'all funny."