NewsOne: 7 Groups Of People The Media Pretends Don’t Exist
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...
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NewsOne: 7 Groups Of People The Media Pretends Don’t Exist
“BET Awards and Racist Tweets in Twitterville”
“BET Awards and Racist Tweets in Twitterville”
It reminded me of how different it feels to watch a Tyler Perry movie, for example, in a theater full of white people vs a theater full of black folks. The jokes FEEL different. Watching with a white audience feels like white people laughing at black people, stereotypes...
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