THE “RACIST “SELF TEST” CHECK YOURSELF

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You don’t have to be a racist or Caucasian to engage in racist practices. Those in the integrated news media may be surprised to learn the key role they are playing wittingly or unwittingly in the unsolved race and social justice problem. “The Big Cover-Up” video (below) provides an opportunity for one to see how they may have knowingly or unknowingly participated in this longstanding news media racist practice.

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Joe Mica and Willie

It was curious to see Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist,  and Mica Brzezinski yucking it up at Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau apologizing for a youthful blackface indiscretion. Let’s remember that black folks in Virginia weren’t as worked up about the Governor’s blackface as those white folks in the news media. The irony is all three of these MSNBC hosts are among the members of the news media who all wittingly or unwittingly participated in a far worse racist offense against President Obama that is exposed in “The Big Cover-Up” video (see video below) featured in what we see as a perfect “Racists Manifestation” test for white Americans and a “Stockholm Syndrome” test for black Americans.  

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Virginia Governor Northam

Here’s how we see the test working for black and white Americans. Unique in that one test fits all. This is a private self-test. You get to determine your own basic reaction in your head and heart, which only you know. Same questions for both races.  (1) Are you repulsed by what you see in the video? (2) Are you indifferent? (3) Do you see this as no big thing? (4)Finally, do you feel compelled to support the establishment of this all-inclusive national news media operation that will address this racist news media editorial  practice that’s been exposed?

The video documents an incident involving racist injustice engaged in by both black and white cops and black and white news people that happened during the first year of the Obama administration. That means as a news person, you get to reflect on how you responded to the incident at the time and how you respond to the “The Big Cover-Up” video after seeing what it reveals. Finally, unlike back then, if you feel the urge to address the problem exposed in the video, the opportunity is presented here.

THE BACK STORY BEHIND “THE RACIST MANIFESTATION  AND STOCKHOLM SYNDROME TEST” 

What prompted the idea of a “Stockholm Syndrome” and “Racist Manifestation” test is the result  of a conversation I had with one of my editors, who is Caucasian. She had asked several of her black friends to watch “The Big Cover-Up” video. She told me their response was indifference. I asked, did they actually watch the entire video, which she assured me they did. The editor herself was appropriately offended when she originally saw the news media’s racist practices revealed in the video. However, she seemed to suggest that since her black friends weren’t offended in what they saw that maybe it wasn’t such a big thing.  

NOT ALL SLAVES WELCOMED THE UNION TROOPS

That exchange with a former Caucasian editor, prompted me to recognize “The Big Cover-Up” video as the perfect device to check the individual dispositions and sentiments of black and white Americans toward clear examples of the police and press knowingly engaged in racist complicity in action. Plus it was recent enough for everyone to remember.

My editor friend, like a lot of Americans, needs to realize that “not all slaves welcomed the Union troops.” One can always find individual blacks accepting of racist practices. With integration comes mixed agendas among black folks. There are Clarence Thomas’s all over the place. The video shows how the integrated police and press are at the root of the unsolved race and social justice problem. 

It’s apparent that there is little these individuals in the profession can do to change things. The only remedy is what we are pursuing, which is to establish an all-inclusive independent integrated national new media operation with this enlightened editorial approach that addresses this racist practice first hand by introducing news media accountability where it has never been.

 

 

 

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