Media's Role in Distorting Civil Rights Discourse

I think there are several issues that this country needs to face when it comes to racism and the Civil Rights Movement. One of the primary issues is how the Democratic Party has used and abused the majority of people who are considered minorities for many years, and the mass media has done nothing but add fuel to the fire. Secondly, I think that itself, the mass media, is a huge problem for the Civil Rights Movement. As soon as there is any sort of problem that occurs that can be correlated with the Civil Rights Movement or equality, the mass media takes that event and blows it way out of proportion, and often using major “hot-words” that blur the perception of reality. That’s extremely dangerous because now whenever it comes to talking about issues of race or equality there is just a field of landmines that you have to tip-toe around just to be able

I think people have to want to get to a point where they are willing to sit down with one another to workout issues. That can be half of the battle is just getting people to realize that not only as Americans, but also as human beings, and for the good of society as a whole this is an issue that we have got to overcome. People have got to turn off the negative media and just realize this is an issue that is not hard to overcome, but it’s one that takes full participation. I had the privilege to attend the marth at the Black Lives Matter protest in New York City when Eric Gardner was killed. There were two things that stood out to me more than anything else. Number one being how many people showed up, they called it a ‘Millions March’ and I can tell you they were not too far off from that number. Secondly were the types of people that came; Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and all in-between. There were rich people and poor people, normal looking people and some freaks. The point is this melting pot of people had gotten together to march for