After last week's premiere of MTV's new documentary "White People" with Jose Antonio Vargas, we were thrilled to see everyone sharing their reactions on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr and really connecting with the young people featured in the film. (Which you can still watch anytime.)

We caught up with Dakota and Sam -- two of the castmembers -- to find out what life has been like since "White People" hit the airwaves.

Dakota and all of his friends are still hanging out and teaching one another.

When we last left Dakota Wright, he and his friends --- both from his very white hometown and the historically black college he attends -- were all sitting around the dinner table together. After a heated discussion about the words we see used (pretty carelessly) on TV and IRL and all the biases wrapped up behind them, they'd reached the conclusion that yeah, words can really hurt and we have a choice to think harder about the ones we use.

"At some point [race] would’ve got brought up, but in our country it’s a problem when people don't bring it up," Wright said. "I think that if you run from it, it’s not going to get better -- not unless you openly talk about it. I really hate to see so many people fighting with each other."

So that televised dinner party wasn't the end of these kinds of conversations for Wright and his friends, though. Dakota said he felt like the meeting of those two friend groups was pretty much inevitable, and he knew that the subject of race was going to come up eventually given they have such different life experiences. But now, as he's soon to be a senior at Winston-Salem University, he said those conversations just have to happen more frequently.

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Dakota told MTV News that even as they watched the rest of the documentary, the two groups -- now a bit more used to hanging together -- kept on sharing their thoughts. They don't always have to agree, Wright said, but they have to be respectful.

"In order to have a conversation and not a fight," Wright said, "you need to respect one another and let other people educate you. If you don’t have respect, you can’t have a mature grown up conversation with somebody."

Part of that respect, he explained, is taking the time to realize when you've misspoke or said something hurtful and trying to make it right. "When I go back and watch our [segment] and see it and know my friend Brittanee is about to get upset 5 seconds later, I do cringe," Wright said. "Nobody’s perfect. When you say something that offends someone, you apologize and you try to better yourself for it."

That's one of the big things Wright has taken away from his experience on "White People": Basically, it's okay to admit when you're wrong and to try and educate yourself and others. "You want to make sure that you have your facts straight and, at the end of the day," he said. "You don’t want to be ignorant."

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Samantha hopes people drop the "pointless" guilt and take action.

Samantha Slavinsky teaches second-graders at Crazy Horse School on the Lakota Reservation in Wanblee, South Dakota. Her segment in "White People" got a lot of people talking about what it means to examine your race (and white privilege) every day of your life.

There was even a Lakota word used to describe the "otherness" of white people: "wasichu," which translates to "he who takes the best meat." But Slavinsky is the first to say that the word and its history isn't at all a sign of "reverse-racism" (which isn't a thing.) Instead, she said it's a reminder of a sad and violent history that still affects many of the Lakota and the ways in which they view the world. And it's also a reminder of her privilege as a white person.

Slavinsky said she hopes that the people who connected with her segment will take some extra time to educate themselves on the modern day reservation system and the issues that native people face, to better understand where people like the Lakota are coming from and how the historical context actually plays into the privilege conversation.

She added that a lot of people often misunderstand what it really means to "check your privilege," thinking it's about expecting the privileged party to feel guilty or sorry. But, as she's learned in her time teaching very young Native American students and coaching some older ones on the volleyball court, that's so not the case. Instead, she said, it's about using what you have to fight the inequality.

"It’s something to recognize and understand for yourself, your place and your jobs and then use," Slavinsky said. "If you’re stagnant, if you’re guilty about it, there’s no point. If you can use it, use it for good then. White guilt is a waste of time."

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