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this is "nightline." >> tonight, the bachelor made his choice, handing over that but picking the one is never simple. tonight, how some online dating sites are trying to make it easy by allowing you to filter potential mates by height, hairy size. but when does preference cross the line into prejudice? >> it's pretty much like every other dating website out with the couple behind wherewhitepeoplemeet.com. trump world. our reporter there as violencel of pepper spray. >> and rhetoric -- >> these people are fascists.
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ade treaty -- 850,000 jobs lost. special trade status with china -- 3 million jobs lost. now the trans-pacific trade deal 000 more jobs. only one candidate for president has opposed every disastrous deal -- bernie sanders.upported unfair trade deals, bernie stood with american workers. he'll take on wall street and their trade deals because he doesn't take their money.. bernie. sanders: i'm bernie sanders, and i approve this message. good evening. as we witnessed another
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with a story about a very different kind of search for love. online dating has become increasingly sophisticated. you can now filter by age, gender, eye color, body weight, and race. but has a new site called rossed the line? here's abc's gloria riviera. >> you're the person i want to spend my whole lifehile "the bachelor" finale makes it look like a fairy tale on tv -- >> lauren.e? >> yes. >> reporter: for many, finding love turn into a nightmare. >> this is my profile. >> reporter: just ask dawn frasier. >> i've had horrible, dates. >> reporter: getting someone to respond to her messages, let alone go on a date, has proven to be a challenge.
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that they only want a white person, oly want asian. >> reporter: she's one of many women who say winning the game of online dating may all come down to the color of your skin. >> i know as a black womanne dating world, it's going to mean that i'm going to have to contact multiple many more people in order to get a typical response that a person get on a normal day. >> reporter: in fact, the dating giant ok cupid says their numbers indicate male likely to message black women and women were more likely to pass on asian, black, and la toon know men. but there's a new site thationing how exact wherewhitepeoplemeet.com. >> the first page is pretty much like every other dating website >> reporter: sam and jody russell are the masterminds behind the two-month-old dating site, launching the business with this billboard in theiralt lake city,
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>> where white people meet, the name alone, did you expect a little bit of backlash? >> we counted on part of our marketing >> you knew it would be controversial? >> we knew it had to be. >> reporter: the billboard causing such offense the citye it down. everywhere. >> reporter: the first question was, is this for real? >> i wanted a gal who shares celine dion. >> reporter: the site may have been the butt of many jokes -- >> i thought we already had a place where white people meet, isn't that "the bachelor"? encapsulated the controversy surrounding race and online dating. >> as the creators of this site you guys have been personally accused of being racist. >> we're not without question. our lifestyle shows it. the things we do, the people we associate with, the way we conduct ourselves each and every >> reporter: this say the site does too. users are not required to check a white racial preference.
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being white.h the name would suggest otherwise. but in the over $1 billion industry, being very specific is becoming the norm. nowadays sites are going the extra mile, allowing users toata options according to religion, height, body size, and race. >> united in faith andr: sites like christian mingle, our time for older daters, and -- >> blackpeoplemeet.com. is how the idea came to him. what do you think people would be surprised to know about you, someone who's created a sitewherewhitepeoplemeet? >> my best friend dprog up was hispanic. i dated a black girl for while. we lived. this is when i was younger. i've got a lot of great black friends. so i think it does surprise people. i think a lot of people, when we
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>> forum for white are you saying it's taken someone with a reputation for someone being open, accepting, to start a conversation like this? >> maybe. >> it's a perfect p >> what do you hope the website does? for the conversation on racial maybe gets people talking. we realize that we don't have to get offended every time we hear the word white or we hear the word ecent data shows 54% of millennials are dating outside their race. 88% saying they'd be open to it. put critics worry a site like this creates a forum prejudice. >> in the terms it says you cannot do anything that what? >> correct, promotes racism, bigotry, hatred, or physical harm any group or individual. >> under that banner declarations of affiliation with white supremacist groups would fall under that? >> yes.
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action dreamist group. we're not going to allow it either way. >> what are we looking at here? will you delete that? >> i -- >> reporter: their son holden, high school senior, is responsible for monitoring the site. >> it's been like managing -- i go to high school every goes through messages one by one, accepting and deleting those that have been flagged as inappropriate. >> tell me about some of the things you've had to take down. >> there's been a few profiles of people who just go ike a fake profile, like blackface, a picture of adolf hitler. >> alarming stuff? >> alarming stuff, ormages and stuff i've had to take off. >> reporter: comments on the controversy stay in. >> i love the controversy. i like the conversation as a ve an issue with it at all. and i'm glad i can be a part of it, honestly. >> at 18, do you think you're prepared to do that? >> yeah, yeah. i kind of have -- like i said,eurial spirit. so i've always -- >> this isn't about just business. it's also about a national
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>> it's so appalling. because the implication of where white pool meet is white people are which is not true. the world is our [ bleep ] oyster. >> reporter: emma is founder of the service the dating rihe majority of her clients have a racial preference, more often than not, it's white. >> people feel it's okay to say, i only want to date white d never be able to say, i only want to hire white people. >> reporter: an issue she says goes beyond dating sites. >> if there's any experienceeople are making negative generalizations about a huge swath of people based on the color of their skin, then we need to be talking about it. >> reporter: a problem the rustles are now having to >> it's better to talk about it than leave it unsaid? >> by far. >> sure, when you don't talk about things -- we've gone a couple of radio showsd -- colored radio shows and they love sam.
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>> do you think it's anple to become educated? listening to you just now talk about colored radio programs, that is a term that today the word "colored" alonething people would bristle at. and they do. so my question is, do you think that there's something to be gained from openingersation around something as simple as a dating app that can help it's really for jody, i want to get her take on it does, almost takes the handcuffs off. in a small way. if we're the people that start the ball rolling in talking about it and getting it so it's not a big deal, i think it's >> a really key question that you want to ask yourself is, why is it that race is so important to you? when you begin to examine why itou'll find that it's not necessarily race that's important to you. but it could be values that are important to you.n is open to meeting men outside her race but
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going on a date is the goal, a site targeting black singles her best bet in finding the perfect match. >> i think that the value is that you actually are going to get some responses. you are of traction. without feeling like the stigma of being a person of color. >> reporter: for "nightline," gloria rivierautah. up next, we'll take you inside trump world. the rhetoric, the violence, the pepper spray, and the franticht to stop the trump juggernaut on the eve of potentially decisive primaries. but first --sive inside look at the making of the movie that took the galaxy by storm. fans behind the scenes of "star wars: the force awakens" previewed today for the first time. this documentary, which will be
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we learntrump will not face charges of inciting a riot in north carolina where a black protester was sucker-punched by a white trump supporter. but that has not stopped trump'sm calling him out for what this say is dangerous and incendiary rhetoric. on the eve of potentially decisive primaries, ight has been traveling with trump. >> reporter: tonight on the campaign trail, anger management. practically every stop. >> usa, usa! usa! >> reporter: the candidate loses his patience but keeps his cool. >> let him go. he'll go back homell be angry at him. >> it's so good to be here. >> reporter: joined in tampa by america's most famous political hockey mom who cried foul.
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is all that petty, punk-ass little thuggery stuff that's been going on with these protesters and the media being on the thugs' side? what the thinking, media? it doesn't make sense. >> reporter: as the trump campaign helps stoke america's outrage -- >> get her out of here. >> reporter: protesters have always been part of theg business. >> get her out. get him out of. get him out of here. get him out, get him out of r: that catch phrase is the candidate's version of what the apprentice used to say. >> you're fired. you're fired. you're fired. >> reporter: different trump tried and true trump brand. money money money >> reporter: in that way the o his hands. >> he pushes it up a little bit more, and we've seen him exercise this. it used to be simple dog now he's being more blatant.
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schtick, if you will. >> reporter: kansas city. forget occupy wall street. mightupy donald trump. outside the event, along main street, police built a kansas city version of trump's wall. >> on a lot of bernie sanders fans. the other side, a lot of donald trump fans. and a lot of cops in between. >> push itll the divisions trump rails about suddenly conjured up on the streets of an american city. the cops used horses for crowd n that didn't work, they brought out the pepper spray. >> i got a mouthful of pepper to be careful here. >> reporter: some of the protesters clearly had some experience with pepper spray. >> the guy right here! forward and leave it there. try to stand up now. >> keep your eyes open. >> reporter: they had gallons of milk handy to neutralize the s a whole new meaning to the
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the person you had to feel sorry for was the woman selling trump what did people do to you? >> spit on us. >> reporter: nobody was changing anyone's mind here. >> why do you feel it's important to make your voice watching the beginning of a new third reich. these people are fascists. >> reporter: one side calling the other fascists. the other calling them >> trump himself has been criticized for egging his supporters on. do you think he deserves any of the blame? >> he doesn't egg his supporters on. what it comes down to have a personal responsibility to keep themselves under control. >> reporter: the violence isn't just outside the rallies. it's inside them as well. the trump supporter inook it upon himself to cold cock a protester. then told "inside edition" the protester got off easy. >> yes, he deserved it. the next time we see him, we might have to kill him. >> reporter: campaign issued a statement insisting it is the protesters and agitators who are in vice,
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>> a candidate for president ofates should condemn violence violence.olence. >> you know, when you are inciting mob violence, which is what trump is doing in thosee's a lot of memories that people have. you know, they're in the dna. people remember mob violence that led to lynching.ump's rallies are now in danger of becoming flash mobs. on friday forcing trump to cancel his rally in chicago out of safety concerns. >> tonight's rally will bestponed until another day. >> reporter: justifiable safety tender concerns julying from the clash between trump supporters and en saturday in dayton, ohio -- >> oh, oh! >> reporter: a protester leapt
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a scary moment for trump and hisdetail, who quickly tackled the guy and frog-marched him out. >> thank you for the warning. i was ready for him but it's much easier do it. >> reporter: america has been here before but not for a long while. >> you came for trouble, you got it. that's right. >> reporter: alabama governor jorge wallace george wallace faced trump-level protests. >> i'm going to have him taken >> reporter: sound familiar? >> he's all mouth, get him out. >> reporter: like trump, george wallace blasted the media for accusing him of inciting the want to tell these people, if you think we are causing is trouble, you ought to head for the holler say don't hurt him, the press says, trump isn't as tough
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>> george wallace was shot in have a history of these well. and usually there's something catastrophic that happens. >> reporter: it's unlikely that any of this problem will hurt trump's results tomorrow. >> we're going to win, win, win. we're going to win so much you're going to get sick and tired of ou're waiting for him to change his tone, or his message, don't hold your breath. i'm david wright for "nightline" in miami.next, something a little different. why the current president of the united states was freestyle rapping in the rose garden
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as he nears the end of his term, president obama appears to be getting looser. he's been showing more emotion, singing at times.styling with the star of broadway's "hamilton." alexander hamilton may never have been commander in chief. he p treasury. first time i'm thinking past tomorrow >> reporter: the creator and star of the hit show meet the current president. and the two treated the world to a freestyle rap in the rose garden. >> drop the beat. >> reporter: covering everything from the constitution --n i'm freestyling you know this >> reporter: to the obamas' dogs. sunny and bo the canines t's going viral? that's going viral. >> reporter: and the president
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