"The poverty rate among Black married couples has been in the single digits since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media. Similarly, you look at the Blacks that have gone on to college or finished college, the incarceration rate is some tiny fraction of what it is among Blacks who have dropped out of high school." Thomas Sowell
As the Trayvon Martin case has illustrated, certain news outlets perpetuate the 1950's and even the 1960's weltanschauung when it comes to Blacks in America. It is a profound act of racism on the part of such media. In order to perpetuate their own popular stereotypes, media outlets like MSNBC are in the ironic position of continuing to diminish the accomplishments of Blacks in America and their perpetuation of racial stereotypes is as racist now as it was sixty years ago.
The situation involving Herman Cain was even more illustrative of the deep, disturbing racist hearts of the media . MSNBC gave us another glimpse into those racist hearts when they seated a bunch of short skirted white women around the table, talking about how the "Tea Party" would react to the age long stereotype of the Black man as a sexual predator. It was shameful and did great injustice to Black men everywhere.
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