NewsOne: 7 Groups Of People The Media Pretends Don’t Exist

NewsOne: 7 Groups Of People The Media Pretends Don’t Exist

[T]he vast majority of coverage of Black people sticks to easily digestible narrative themes: Overcoming adversity, committing violent crime, engaging in secret elitism, complaining of real or imagined victimization by The Man, allowing the family unit to disintegrate, and so on—these are the types of Black people stories we’ve come to know and love.

And when some subset of people doesn’t fit into one of these pre-set narratives? Well, they get the Loch Ness monster treatment: Some kooky blog or other disreputable source might rant and rave about their existence and importance, but you won’t find CNN or the New York Times taking much notice. But we true believers, we know they’re out there. And so I present without further ado, 7 Groups Of People The Media Pretends Don’t Exist:

I’ll crib the list for you, but you really should read the whole thing. Especially the last picture and accompanying paragraph.

1. The Black Middle Class
2. Gay Black People
3. Missing Persons Who Aren’t White And Female
4. Non-Christian Black People
5. Educated, Married Black Women
6. Africans Who Are Not Poor, Starving, and Living in Small Villages
7. Black Police Officers

I love that the the article starts with a photo of a unicorn. (Well, a “unicorn.”)

(via The Root and Jack & Jill Politics)

Tags: african-american, media, stereotypes