Racism in Media

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Racism in Media Media is our biggest challenge of the new lifestyle that we’ve adopted. it represents one of the most powerful institutions in our society, the key instrument that we use in our daily lives. We are living through a period of time when racism in media is alive and around us. Racism in any form is evil, but in media more so because everyone, even small children can see it and they learn racism at a young age and think that it’s right. Racism in American pop culture is not new. Black stereotypes in the media started in 1830. A man who went by the name of “Daddy Rice” put on some dusty clothes, (which he had borrowed from a black person) painted his face black and put on a show to the song “Jump Jim Crow”, he did this to humiliate African American people and make them feel less than human. American white society fully accepted and enjoyed these terrible shows. The way Rice characterized blacks was the way mainstream America had thought of blacks all along. Racism is present in all kinds of media. It’s in the news, cartoons, movies and even newspapers. Racism is also present in music, if you listen to the lyrics of rap songs they’re constantly saying the “N-word”, a word that their ancestors fought for years to get rid of and now they rappers just throw that word around like it means nothing. Children often listen to rap and hear that word, and not knowing what it means they say it like it’s just another insult not knowing that it can offend a lot of people. Over the years there have been many cases of fascist and racist news reporters, and those are the people that we rely on to give us information on what’s happening around the world or in communities near us. These people shape the way different cultures are viewed by our society and if they’re racist than the younger generations are going to see and believe everything that they’re saying,
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