COMPLETING THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

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    On This Day Civil Rights Act 2

    It’s the last remaining major institutional racial inequality since the success of the civil rights movement. The most visible and vilified race in the nation, 46 million African Americans and growing, spending $1.2 trillion annually and counting are without this basic layer of national news media accountability protection in race and police encounters, which is at the root of the unsolved race and social justice problem and the missing advancement to be addressed.       

    On May 17th, 1954, the Supreme Court handed down its decision on Brown versus the Board of education ruling unanimously (9–0) that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th amendment to the constitution, which prohibits the states from denying equal protection of the laws to any person within their jurisdictions. What followed was black students integrating formerly white schools  and those iconic news media images showing the resistance they ran into from white crowds and the heroics displayed by black students exercising their rights.

    in 1964 ten more years of the civil rights movement led by heroes like Rosa Parkes, John Lewis, and Martin Luther King Jr culminated with President Lyndon Baines Johnson  signing the Civil Rights Act in 1964. which helped eliminate voting rights discrimination against African Americans. The act also abolished racial discrimination in public facilities and and ended with the  Voting Rights Act of 1965, which received national news media coverage.

    IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE THE NATIONAL NEWS MEDIA WAS CONSIDERED TO BE AN ALLY 

    Not to be overlooked are the unrelenting efforts and endeavors of community action groups, and traditional organizations, like the NAACP  the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)   

    Throughout the struggle, the news media was there publicizing the big civil rights demonstrations. The organizers wisely would strategically schedule their demonstrations early in the day to be played on the national television networks prime time news hours to show their nonviolence was being met by violent law enforcement opposition, to gain maximum exposure showing the injustice and garner sympathy and support for the civil rights movement.   

    Along with those institutions forced to integrate by court orders, the police and news media were two key institutions that integrated as our progress evolved. However, with the introduction of camera phones and You Tube it became apparent, for those paying attention, that black cops were just as abusive to blacks as their white coworkers. Interestingly, it’s also become increasingly apparent that for far too many of us the press and police complicity in race and police encounters has escaped awareness.   

    INTEGRATION RESULTED IN SPECTACULAR  RACIAL PROGRESS BUT SOME THINGS REMAINED THE SAME

    With integration, came spectacular advancement collectively and individually, economically former US President Barack Obama waving his hand 2and politically. People gained jobs and careers few had imagined, political appointments and positions few had envisioned. 46.8 million African Americans currently have an annual buying power of $1.6 trillion, equivalent to the 12th largest nation in the world and growing. According to Forbes we have 7 black billionaires and close to two million African American millionaires (1.67 million). Plus we even had a black President. This is unquestionably spectacular progress, but some key racist practices remained.

    “INTEGRATION DELUSION” A SELF DEFEATING MINDSET WIDELY EMBRACED

    Our spectacular progress has come with a major misleading mindset, widely embraced by far too many black and white Americans, fooling ourselves during these fifty years of integration, with “integration delusion,” believing that with integration the press and police ended their traditional pre-integration racist practices. It took a few of those well publicized  police incidents for people to learn that black cops can be just as abusive with blacks as their white colleagues. However, few ever saw or picked up on the integrated news media continuing their pre-integration editorial racist practice of supporting the cops in race and police encounters.

    Fortunately, knowing that this little-known racist news media practice has been going on during these years of integration, we can finally show it in action even against the black President in “The Big Cover-Up” video. The video shows Sgt. Crowley engaged in a racist illegal arrest of Professor Gates and was criticized by the first black President in a nationally televised press conference for arresting a man ” for breaking into his own home,” as President Obama accurately described it. That press conference elevated the incident to a national news story and as things unfolded it totally exposed the systemic racist editorial practice in the news media in this case of even knowingly supporting police misconduct in this race and police encounter and gave us  video evidence of the missing news media accountability component that when established will complete the unfinished business of our advancement and empowerment. 

    IT’S TIME FOR 46 MILLION TO LEARN  OF THIS  KEY  WE’VE BEEN MISSING FOR THESE 50 YEARS OF INTEGRATION

    The big story is the integrated news media supporting Sgt. Crowley, knowing that he had lied and filed a false police report to justify his racist illegal arrest of Professor Gates and knowing that President Obama had rightly criticized Sgt. Crowley’s misconduct. The question was, can the black President criticize the police in this race and police incident, and will the integrated news media treat the black President’s criticism of the police fairly? That is why we documented the news media activity as it unfolded in “The Big Cover-Up” video. That proved to be a critical revelation because it showed, the news media knowingly supported Sgt. Crowley’s misconduct even knowing it was a choice between the lying white police officer and the black President who had correctly criticized the racial injustice committed  by him.          

    UNDENIABLE RACIST NEWS MEDIA FACTS 

    That led to the next revelation showing those in the integrated news media blatantly and collectively choosing to ignore the revelation of  Sgt Crowley lying on his police report. Anderson Cooper on CNN and Greta Van Susteren on FOX News, both aired Sgt Crowley lying on his police report. However, within the next 24 hours CNN had their two black news hosts, Don Lemon and T.J. Holmes switch the news focus to the   black and white cops being angry at President Obama for wrongly criticizing Sgt. Crowley.  Crowley became the aggrieved maligned hero and President Obama the villian having wrongly criticized the police. To this day, the nation was successfully left with the impression that President Obama was wrong and the beer summit was President Obama’s  way of apologizing to Sgt. Crowley and the Police.  

    That leaves us with an undeniable truth, which is that these news people, and news organizations knowingly went along with the lying cop over the black President, starting with Anderson Cooper and CNN and Greta Van Susteren and FOX News. We need to emphasize, this is not a conspiracy, no memo was circulated but apparently these news people and organizations are just adhering to an unwritten rule in the news media that’s as real as the code of silence is with police. In any case, it’s all there in “The Big Cover-Up” video. 

    As people become aware of the facts  in “The Big Cover-Up” video they will have to decide if the racial injustice and the racist news media editorial racist practices are acceptable. The other side of this lack of awareness is that many in the news media may not be aware of their participation in this racist practice. Conversely,  many of our best and brightest have obviously missed the whole news media support of police in race and police encounter injustice. Two great illustrations are Colin Powel and Juan Williams displaying the clearest example of “integration delusion” and it’s self defeating destructive impact as they both appeared on national television assuring the nation that the presence of black cops means no racist offense occurred. They were totally wrong as the video shows. Plus, seeing none other than Stephen A Smith on national television denouncing Henry Lewis Gates, the subject of the false arrest and cover-up by Sgt. James A Crowley, reinforced Powel and Williams’ misguided assurances. 

    And guess what, but for “The Big Cover-Up” video in which we caught and captured this whole racist debacle  exposing this basic news media racist problem, this signature moment in the unsolved race and social justice  problem in American history would have been lost and missed forever.  This confirms the need for a national news media operation that “pays attention,” that doesn’t sleep on the obvious racist news media offenses like “The Big Cover-Up” video shows, and one that is in position to routinely share vital race and social justice information like this with the whole nation. That’s the kind of national news media operation that has been missing that we are working to put in place. 

    ESTABLISHING OUR OWN NEWS MEDIA ADVANCEMENT IS ON US       

    The news media has continued to enjoy the impression of “having our backs,” which comes from the news media having always covered the big civil rights demonstrations, and even today it continues with their practice of covering the headline grabbing police excessive force and police killings. What’s being missed is the news media pre-integration racist practice of supporting the police in their day-to-day race and police encounters as exposed in “The Big Cover-Up” video.

    FORTY SIX MILLION PLUS  HAVE SLEPT THIS RACIST REALITY FOR FIFTY YEARS

    For the first time in history, we are pointing out the integrated news media’s little-known pre-integration racists’ practice of knowingly supporting the police in race and police encounters and having the ultimate example of this systemic news media racist practice involving the black President missed by all of our watchdog individuals and groups, but caught by us in “The Big Cover-Up” video, because we documented it on video for those who missed it. With all of this progress, we can’t afford to leave this news media racist problem  unaddressed.

    THE NEXT STEP IS PUTTING THE OBVIOUS SOLUTION IN PLACSELF-IMPOSED CEILING FINALLY ERASED

    What were doing here  is the perfect example of the kind of news media operation that’s been missing that needs to be put in place to complete the unfinished business of the civil rights movement.  We sure don’t need to stop our progress with this level of injustice in place. 

    In the meantime, our mission and objective is to put in place not only what people have thought was already there, but what we should have put in place long ago. The  all-inclusive 24-7 national cable news television network and 24-7 on-line news magazine  will give black Americans genuine national news media presence and  representation for the first time in history. It’s spearheaded by our $500,000 minimum “GoFundMe” campaign to produce the pilot. Once produced, with corporate commercials showing it to be a sound self-sustaining business concept, it will be aired and streamed nationally via YouTube and other social media platforms. The story of fifty years as America’s best-kept news media’s racist unknown will be fully exposed and explained in the pilot to justify the $200 million in investment capital required to launch this all-American, all-inclusive, national cable news television network. A concept whose time has come.