MTV's 'White People' invites everyone to get uncomfortable

"Let's get uncomfortable together." Jose Antonio Vargas issues that challenge in White People, his new MTV documentary about race in America. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist came out as an undocumented refugee from the Phillipines in a 2011 article.

Vargas has since devoted himself to starting difficult conversations about prejudice and privilege — not only with those who identify as people of colour, but also those who don't. 

"In my own experience, whenever we talk about diversity ... it's usually people of colour, amongst ourselves. White people aren't included," he says in a clip from the new show. "We can't have that anymore."

He joins Shad to explain his commitment to thorny conversations and why colour blindness doesn't help. 

Vargas is also the creator of Define American, an organization that aims to complicate narrow views around immigration, citizenship and belonging.