thats awesome Mistress. here in teh US, the black underclass is what the media focuses on, and thus anyone from the other classes,except for the athletes and celebrities--gets put down or very little exposure. I dont really care to have people peaking in my home garden or joining my clubs, but I do care whether blacks and the country are gettng an adequate picture of the black community.
Network news tends to "ghettoize" Blacks Increasingly, African-Americans appear mostly in crime, sports and entertainment stories. Rarely are Blacks shown making important contributions to the serious of the nation. Television ads now show many Blacks and eschew stereotypes. However, hidden patterns of differentiation and distance emerge on close analysis. Not surprisingly, for instance, Blacks do not touch Whites in the ads, but (in Whites) they rarely even touch each other, conveying a subtle message of Black skin as taboo. A hierarchy of racial preference is embedded within the casting of commercials.
Furthermore, the local news paints a picture of blacks as violent and threatening. When the media covers blacks being accused of a crime, the blacks are more likely to be shown in mug shots or in physical custody of a police officer. TV news coverage showing blacks being physically restrained happens twice as often as similar coverage of white defendants. This insidious bias sends a visual message that blacks deserve to be physically restrained because they are more dangerous than any other race. Yet even black crime victims get less media attention.
there was a wonderful documentary on last evening about US Reconstruction after the American Civil War. My great great great Uncle, served as one of the first Black Senators in US history. this history is crucial to the self esteem of many black children but it is under reported because the media only portrays the struggling blacks and not about the successful blacks in history.
Consider this:
African-Americans are rarely asked for their opinions and rarely seen giving expert advice.
Media images of African-Americans are more likely to be in either entertainment or blue-collar jobs.
When African-Americans are covered, they are predominantly featured in stories about affirmative action, crimes, welfare, or political unrest. Compare this to white persons, who usually appear in stories about business, elective politics, or other conventional activities.
Conservatively assuming that over 70 percent of Americans use TV news as their primary source of information, biased stories can powerfully influence viewers' sense of reality. For example, in a recent large drug bust featured on the news, police arrested ten alleged drug dealers--seven were white and three were black. Local news coverage showed all three of the black defendants and only one white one, even though the number of white defendants was more than double the number of black. Unfortunately, many viewers likely paid more attention to the screen instead of the story, internalizing the event as another black crime.
And when an African-American is involved in a major issue, all of a sudden it becomes the cornerstone of the negative story. Far after the Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill hearings, news features dealt with sexual harassment at work. After the Mike Tyson rape trial, stories about date rape were everywhere. During and after the O.J. Simpson trial, the media found it necessary to discuss domestic violence. In other words, the timing of the news stories tied the negative issue to the African-American male. To make matters worse, even years after these major events, the names, photos, and tape footage of these same African-Americans are used over and over in covering similar problems that permeate all of our society or culture. When covering Caucasian male criminals, the media makes sure you have sympathy for him too: "He was emotionally unstable," or "he had psychological problems and was on some medication" or "he came from an abusive home" (like Jeffrey Dahmer).
Have you ever noticed that on local news shows anywhere in the country, when you do see a black news anchor, it's usually a black women anchor with a white male anchor? You rarely see a black male anchor. As if a brother can't cover serious news!
black children in the US are miseducated by a public school system that wont teach african history or the real african american history. many of the middle and upper middle class are taking their children out of pubbies in record number to eithe HOme school or privately educate them
One thing that has hurt the black community of America is that we have had much of our history torn from us because of slavery. No one ever came to America like blacks; no other people were sold and beaten like slaves. If you take away a person's history, then they have nothing. Blacks still haven't overcome this.
Even worse than the lack of a history is the fact that many blacks have been "sold" a bill of lies by the liberal media. Many are going against everything that we were ever taught morally. What is happening to the black family now is even more destructive than when we were on the plantations.
We have been suckered into killing our own children. Abortionists have killed more of our black children than the Ku Klux Klan could ever lynch. In 1985, blacks were counted as 12 percent of the population, but we were counted in 30 percent of the abortions! Three million black children never lived to see the light of day.