With the recent shootings in an African-American church in South Carolina, and all of Trump's comments on Mexican immigrants being rapists and killers, the issue of race relations in the U.S. has become impossible to ignore.

But that does not mean it has become any easier to talk about.

An upcoming documentary called “White People,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, will seek to address this situation by asking uncomfortable questions regarding “white privilege” to young Americans.

In a press release for the upcoming show, Stephen Friedman, the president of MTV, expressed his hopes that project will stimulate some deep discussion about race, saying, "Whiteness often remains unexamined in conversations about race in this country, even as it acts as the implicit norm against which other racial identities are judged."

"By shining a spotlight on whiteness, we hope 'White People' will serve as a powerful conversation starter that encourages our audience to address racial bias through honest, judgment-free dialogue," says Friedman.

In the YouTube teaser for the show several young people voice their trepidation while trying to speak about the issue of “whiteness,” buffering their opinions with phrases like "I don't want to offend people" and "I don't want to say the wrong thing."

As an undocumented immigrant, filmmaker, and journalist, Vargas comes to his latest project from a position of authority. The Philippines-born Vargas knows all too well what privilege does and does not mean in contemporary America. He has previously directed the documentary "Documented."

In a New York Times Magazine article back in 2011 he addressed the pitfalls associated with being an undocumented immigrant, which for him meant, “going about my day in fear of being found out" and "reluctantly, even painfully, doing things I know are wrong and unlawful."

“White People” airs Wednesday, July 22 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.

Watch the trailer: