Is this really human nature?
Today, I was flipping through the television channels. I started to become very irritated. On every damn channel there were White people. I have 60 channels to choose from and on them all are people who generally look alike. So I going to answer the question that many will ask right now. It matters because people put forth effort to not only put in the media people whom they want to look a certain way, but also work to exclude others based on the way they look.
Sure. There are some African-American and east Asian anchors on CNN. Here and there you see a semi-diverse cast on a Nickolodean kid’s show. But the overwhelming majority of people presented are White middle-class Americans. The only chance I have a fair chance of seeing an ethnic minority is on the shows Cops and Cheaters. Hell no! The show Judge Joe Brown doesn’t count.
Basically, ethnic minorities are shown beating up on one another, yelling at one another or just getting into trouble. Another question that will come up is “Well what about White people who get arrested on cops or are on court TV shows. There is a big difference. Those people are considered quote-un-quote white trash. When ethnic minorities are on those shows, they are simply considered Black or Mexican.
Why only Black or Mexican? many of you are going to ask (this may seem like a tangent, but I asure you it is not). It is because aside from people who are assumed to be muslim, most other minorities are considered White. East Indians are White, Japanese are White. Italians, Greeks and Jews are White. I would comment that Native Americans are not White, but they simply aren’t even on T.V. unless it’s for some sort of gimmick. Perhaps the only exception to this is King of Hill which featured “John Redcorn.” A Native American who regularly participated in adultery with one of the show’s main characters and also sired an illegitimate child.
If any of you readers mention one of the so called music channels, I hope a shit can falls out of the sky and crushes your fucking head in.
With my 27 years of experience, visual and literary accounts, I know that White people have a general disdain for us for one reason or another. But something that really pisses me off is that fucking immigrants will come here to the U.S. and fucking be racist. They will actually take to heart the shit they see on television and resent me. They will act shitty when I work with them or am in class with them. They will tell their children not to date us and to not marry us under any conditions. Yeah, I’m talking about African Immigrants too.
One of the saddest things in the history of media is how east Indians and east Asians assimilated and internalized what europeans fed to them. The Chinese and Japanese actually paint their brides white on their wedding days because they see being Caucasian as inherently prosperous and all around better. The east Indians actually went so far as to create a caste system that separted and practically fucking deified a person, the whiter they were/are (they still do that shit). They even made so that it was tantemount to a sin to marry outside of one’s caste. However, it’s always okay to marry a White person, even if they aren’t Hindu or east Indian.
I started flippig through the international news channels. All fucking White people. Isn’t one fifth of the world’s population supposed to be Chinese? Isn’t their something going on in Mexico or South America? Shit, can I see something going on in Africa besides gang rapes and pirates hijacking oil freighters? There is a huge as African Union that I never hear anything about.
The point is, White people make it seem like there is no one in the world, but them or people who try to mimic/deify them. And yeah. I will write more on the overwhelming number of jewish producers, writers, directors and actors in the media who also have a hand in dictating this.
But there is something that upsets me more them White people and Jews running the media. Its African-Americans who take on roles portraying “Blacks” the way White people want us to be viewed. Sometimes, it is even in shows that are produced by African-Americans. That shit is truly sick. What ever happened to the Cosby Show? I don’t remember one episode of A different World wherein being Black was portrayed as only behaving in certain ways.
Yeah. I know. This shit on T.V. is made cause people want to see it. This shit is for White people.
i stumbled upon your post. it’s true. everyone on tv is also straight, and they used to all be male. there are still a lot more men “anchors” than woman.
anyway, if you are serious about wanting to watch news about africa, sabc is pretty good. they also podcast. there web address is: http://www.sabcnews.com/portal/site/SABCNews/
thanks for the post.
thegreatestofthese
December 16, 2008 at 1:38 am