"What if the media portrayed white rioters the same as black protesters?" That is the question proposed in a video addressing the media's troubling representations of various uprisings, often biased against Black Americans. “Seems like when the protestors are black, the media uses some pretty harsh words,” the narrator says in the video above. The video, produced by Brave New Films, also includes soundbites from news outlets referring to black protesters as “criminals," and “thugs." In contrast, other clips show the media describing riots mainly composed of white Americans with words like “passionate” and “rowdy.” “Some, maybe, got a little out of control,” a news anchor reported as a college-aged white man swung a burning t-shirt in the air during a riot after University of Kentucky lost a NCAA Final Four basketball game to University of Wisconsin earlier this year. "'White Riots vs.Black Protests' was originally inspired by the difference in the way the media portrayed the Ferguson protests vs.