As if radical injustice is not enough - I’m now at my last straw, because I’m sick of media stories leading the black community around like obedient lap dogs. Media conglomerates realized long ago, that racially charged stories were pure gold. These stories generate viewership, which equal profits. All that’s needed is a racial event and anoint a black hero and start a fight. So many people use race conflicts to generate money – comedians, politicians, salespeople and entertainers. Police and media will exploit a simple local story of a black shoplifter and boldly proceed to use the story for leverage at city meetings, boldly stating how crime is taking the streets (pointing to any minority arrest) and request unplanned tax dollars and hire 12 additional cops. Money that would be used to improve schools instead funds needless guerilla police troops. The media company then plasters the black community “leader” on national news and the fiscal quarter moves from red to black with increased advertisers. Everyone watches, because at any moment, something big might be going down – white communities watching the coverage go out and buy every gun within reach. Now profits are up for other industries – it doesn’t end there, everyone is out to gain something from exploiting race tension. It doesn’t matter – race sells. I see white fear, and it supports a billion dollar gun industry buying artillery and guns by the truckload. Black fear is no better, somehow the community feels better, if a cop is fired or some executive loses a job – I suppose it’s calming – because it feels like there is some justice out there. But these few people going down in the race crimes are just black and white causalities, subject to the exploitation game. In reality, the only thing that matters is keeping the black community in a useful position. “The only justice is profit and profit by any means”. How is it progress when the race formula is repeated continually? Think back, this is the same old game, once the cameras are off, the big race story disappears. We act as lap dogs, responding to the master’s call, moving exactly and squarely to the spot designated. Give it a few hours, we return to poverty and self depreciation. There is self deception in the white and black community; I suppose that is one thing these communities do have in common. Fear is exploited on all sides and the poison is used to raise power and money. It’s true, I am at my last straw, but I fear this is the way it will be, so I better get some more straws.
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Saturday, November 28th 2009 at 2:17PM
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