Racism in the media

[erudite]

When the first two 'suspects were arrested in connection with the disappearance of that white female teenager the media broadcasted the faces of those two suspects all over media. They were black. From what I understand now, some rich white Dutch kid is also being held, who isn't the media plastering his face all across the world and on television? The media is clearly promoting the stereotypical image of 'black male predator' who preys on white women. How can anyone disagree?

[MC anunnaki]

Here in Sweden, it's the other way around. Swedish media display name and photo of Swedish criminals, but very rarely even mention a description of non-European criminals. The best thing one can hope for is something like "Arabic-looking" or "dark man". Either they show every criminal's photo in the papers, or none of them.

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anunnaki said:

Either they show every criminal's photo in the papers, or none of them.

I agree with this. The image of the 'black boogey man' was created by one-sided media coverage of one race.

[slick]

Charlie, I couldn't agree with you more. The media obviously thinks stuff like this sells. How else can you expect why blacks are portrayed in the media as criminals, stupid, immoral, or hopeless victims? I was surprised the rich white kids were not portrayed enough because now there is the image of the snotty rich kids who get away with everything. America wants to see people get what they deserve and what better target than someone rich or someone who is minority and/or poor.

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slick said:

Charlie, I couldn't agree with you more. The media obviously thinks stuff like this sells. How else can you expect why blacks are portrayed in the media as criminals, stupid, immoral, or hopeless victims? I was surprised the rich white kids were not portrayed enough because now there is the image of the snotty rich kids who get away with everything. America wants to see people get what they deserve and what better target than someone rich or someone who is minority and/or poor.

Exactly, excellent point. I know for a fact that idiots like David Duke and the Nordicists initially plastered the story of those two arrested black men all over their boards and site, but when it was revealed that a rich white teen in fact might have confessed to it they became silenced. This is precisely why I believe race is still too much of a factor in the U.S. because somebody *HAS* to be the bad race and somebody has to be the good race(s). Crie isn't viewed across the board equally among all races.