Nobody Bowls For Red Lake
Nobody Bowls For Red Lake
Pop quiz, hotshot. How many of these names do you recognize?
If you didn’t recognize all of the names, there’s a reason: The American media.
Take Laci Peterson and Evelyn Hernandez. Their cases were nearly identical. Peterson was a 27-year-old pregnant woman who disappeared in December 2002; her remains eventually were found in the San Francisco Bay. Hernandez was a 24-year old pregnant woman who disappeared on May 7, 2002. Her torso washed ashore in the same San Francisco bay that Peterson’s did. Yet Peterson, an attractive, suburban white girl, became the cause celebre for the entire nation, subject of round-the-clock national news coverage. Hernandez, Salvadoran immigrant, languished in obscurity.
Then there’s Natalee Holloway, the blonde high-school girl from Alabama who disappeared in Aruba seventeen days ago. A Lexis search for her name brings up 1,224 responses. Type in the name “Tamika Huston,” the African American woman who disappeared in Spartanburg, SC 12 months ago, and only 23 stories come up.
Finally, when Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris shocked the nation after they open fired on their high school killing 12, the nation reeled with shock. The case became the inspiration for both the Michael Moore documentary “Bowling for Columbine” and the Gus Van Sant drama Elephant. The story blanketed the airwaves. Articles examining the effects of bullying or parental responsibility or even the music of Marilyn Manson filled editorial columns, magazines and newspapers for months. When Jeff Weise stole his grandfather’s gun and turned it on students at Red Lake High School this year, it disappeared from the airwaves in days. The difference? Columbine is a suburban, middle-class, white school. Red Lake is on an Indian Reservation.
Media attention can have a powerful effect on how a case is handled. It’s time for the media to drop the bias.
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so are you trying to say we should care less about someone missing just because they happen to be white? i think you liberals are taking this affirmative action thing too far
June 16th, 2005 at 2:34 pmCaitlin, settle down.
The point is that if you are white and attractive–and *marketable* to a monied American demographic–than you are more likely to receive media attention. Let’s call it “The Fay Wray Effect.”
For some reason, it also helps if you’re from Modesto. The amount of Chandra/Laci coverage was obscene when you compare it to mirror-image cases across the nation.
It would be bad enough if this were the only part of the media story–but the zero sum game aspect should drive everyone nuts. The more time we spend on Runaway Bride or Missing Natalee or (insert frenzy here), the less time we give economic, social and international issues that are far more pressing.
June 16th, 2005 at 2:39 pmI think this is right on point; if Natalee were black of hispanic this story would nver have gotten air time outside of her home town. Anyone have statistics on missing persons over the last few years? Would like to see if there is any correlation betweeen increased coverage and increased incidents.
June 16th, 2005 at 2:40 pmChristy:
This is a wonderful article (can I call it an “article”?). Thanks for puitting it in these terms – this is a great way to get the problem across to people who don’t have the time/insight to see the problem in other terms.
thanks again!!
June 16th, 2005 at 3:11 pmThe damsel in distress
June 16th, 2005 at 3:35 pmThe left blogosphere is buzzing the past few days with criticism of the mainstream media (MSM) for expending a lot of airtime and print on pretty, young white women who go missing in usual circumstances, such as the famous runaway bride, Laci Peterso…
The overreaction by the U.S. media is strange. It seems to be a setup where the media, U.S. government and the F.B.I. are involved.
June 16th, 2005 at 3:37 pmNot being worthy of manipulation by the media can be a good thing. After all, most of these overplayed sensational national news stories are fear inducing propaganda or filler that misdirects from real news.
June 16th, 2005 at 3:54 pmIt’s like a kid seeing his brother getting a spanking (thus attention) and saying, “I want one too”
For more background on this theme of the media’s fixation with attractive, white and often well-to-do women, see:
- “The Unbearable Whiteness of Being”
- “Faux National Tragedies”
June 16th, 2005 at 3:54 pmThe public, in general, that has economic power are the ones that need to be hypnotized into political inaction and acceptance.
June 16th, 2005 at 4:04 pmIt’s about time Tamika Huston has received media attention. I’m a PR executive and have been pitching this story to People, Time, NY Times, Wash Post, etc. for two years. I don’t know Tamika; but I know she hasn’t received national broadcast coverage. Foolish is the person who wants to act like race doesn’t matter in this country. Wake up and claim your heritage. America is race based and it’s all of our parts to actively call injustice on the carpet.
June 16th, 2005 at 4:21 pmThe media largely ignores the plight of lower classes and minorities unless it is for mass tasteless entertainment value such as Springer, Cops, Police chase videos etc.
June 16th, 2005 at 4:22 pmIn America everything is measured and for sale, even personhood.
White women I’d like to see go missing:
Ann Coulter
Nancy Grace
Monica Crowley
OK, so Coulter is a man. It should still turn up missing.
June 16th, 2005 at 4:54 pmLet’s not forget all the talking heads and pundits telling us how the Robert Blake verdict shows that white jurors won’t convict a white man, no matter how obviously guilty he is.
Seriously, could the racial bias in the media be any more obvious? Could they please hurry up and cross that bridge to the 21st century, or at least straggle into the last half of the 20th century?
June 16th, 2005 at 4:59 pmComment by Jon Heder
For some reason, it also helps if you’re from Modesto.
Modesto has nothing to do with it. Gary Condit was a Democrat. How many of you have ever heard of Lori Klausutis? Probably none of you. But you have heard of ex-Congressman Joe Scarborough. He even got his own Cable TV show. Lori just got found dead in his office.
June 16th, 2005 at 5:01 pmhttp://www.nwfdailynews.com/archive/opinion/010731edit2.html
Scandal Lies
by Bridget Gibson March 26, 2002
“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it.” Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, America’s No. 1 Publicist in the 1920’s
When is a scandal not a scandal? When a scandal appears to be connected with a member of the Republican Party, it is not reported as a “scandal.” Only when a member of the Democratic Party has involvement in anything that broaches the questionable grey area is something “determined” to be a “scandal.”
After an eight year-long investigation of William Jefferson and Hillary Clinton was concluded with “no evidence,” it is still reported as a “scandal.” That $70 million in taxpayer dollars and untold hours were devoted to finding something, anything, to throw at the Clintons has shown that there was nothing to throw. The media (and I mean the major corporate media) still consider it to be a “scandal.” One that just won’t go away. One that has to be lied about and drummed constantly into the psyche of the American public until something resonates. What is resonating are the words that have been repeated endlessly until almost everyone can recite them verbatim.
But, let me tell you what was not a “scandal.” There was no “scandal” when Republican President George Herbert Walker Bush pardoned Caspar Weinberger with an indictment filed against him, thus avoiding any questions regarding the involvement of that same Republican President in the Iran-Contra Affair. There was no “scandal” when a partisan court appointed the highest elected official in this country. There was no “scandal” when an intern was found dead of mysterious causes in Florida Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough’s office.
There was no “scandal” when Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury, Connecticut was caught and charged as a sexual predator of young girls. There was no “scandal” when the Republican President George Walker Bush nominated Theodore Olson (investigated for obstruction of justice and lying to Congress during the Superfund investigation) to the office of Solicitor General. There was no “scandal” when Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s daughter, Noelle Bush, was charged with felony fraud in obtaining a controlled substance.
There was no “scandal” when Republican President George Walker Bush’s daughters, Jenna and Barbara Bush, then 18, were convicted with using illegally obtained and false identification to obtain alcohol. There was no “scandal” when Mark A. Grethen, a Republican activist, nominated for “Republican of the Year” was convicted and is serving a more than 20 year sentence in prison for six counts of sex crimes involving children. There was no “scandal” when Wendy Gramm, the wife of prominent Republican Senator Phil Gramm, approved illegal partnerships and waived the code of ethics for those partnership formations while on the Board of Directors of Enron.
There is no “scandal” when Kenneth “Kenny Boy” Lay (Enron and Lay contributed $2.16 Million to Republicans in the 2000 election cycle) the largest contributor to the sitting Republican President, George Walker Bush, currently being investigated for leading one of the largest American companies, Enron, into bankruptcy following fraudulently filed earnings reports. There was no “scandal” when Enron was allowed to price-gouge consumers and the sitting Republican President George Walker Bush refused to allow the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee (FERC) to impose price caps to control excess profiteering. There was no “scandal” when the current sitting Republican President George Walker Bush appointed Elliott Abrams (convicted of lying to Congress about the Iran-Contra affair) to the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations.
There was no “scandal” when John Ashcroft, the current Republican Attorney General, spuriously gave a “reprieve” and discontinued the lawfully entered agreement for damages to The Adams Mark Hotel, owned by Fred S. Kummer Jr, a personal friend and $25,700 senatorial campaign contributor, for charges of serious violations of racial discrimination. There was no “scandal” when key figures, John Negroponte (complicit in the Honduran Death Squads), Richard Armitage (linked to illegal arms transfers and CIA drug-running operations), Otto Reich (propaganda operative), John Poindexter (convicted of conspiracy {obstruction of inquiries and proceedings, false statements, falsification, destruction and removal of documents}; two counts of obstruction of Congress and two counts of false statements) of the Iran-Contra Affair have re-appeared in official governmental positions via appointment by George Walker Bush, the sitting Republican President, the son of the former Republican President, George Herbert Walker Bush, for whom these men worked. There is no “scandal” when the current Republican Vice President Richard Cheney refuses to release what should be public records of meetings held in the formulation of public policy (The Energy Policy) after being ordered to do so by three Federal Judges (U. S. District Judge Gladys Kessler, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan and U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman). There is no “scandal” when the personal fortune of George Walker Bush, the sitting Republican President, is being bolstered by governmental war contracts to The Carlyle Group, partially owned by his father, former Republican President, George Herbert Walker Bush.
The only exception to this “scandal” rule that you will be able to easily recall is the Watergate scandal presided over by Republican President Richard Milhouse Nixon, who was forced to resign his office in disgrace.
Don’t worry about those “scandals,” you know the “liberal” major media corporations (Rupert Murdoch – FOX – $30,033 to RNC, AOL/Time Warner/Isaacson – CNN -$6,150 to RNC, GE/Jack Welch – NBC -$160,350 to RNC, Michael Eisner/Disney – ABC -$208,052 to RNC) are surely going to tell you every “scandal” that they want you to know. They do not want you to remember Republican “scandals.” It makes it easier to demonize Democrats. They do not want you to look around. They do not want you to question their version of the news. There are only Democrat “scandals”. You can recite them as easily as you can recite the Pledge of Allegiance: Whitewater. The Blue Dress. Chandra Levy. Chappaquiddick. You know the drill.
As citizens of this once great country, we must demand the truth from our media. We must demand the truth from our politicians. We must demand our country back. Each of us, you and I, has that power and the right to make these demands. Call your local television station. Write your representatives. Our voices must be heard. And we must hear the truth.
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June 16th, 2005 at 5:06 pmLets face it, the media can not be all things to everyone. They are in business to make a profit and must appeal to the greatest number. It can not be the majorities fault that they are a majority(whites).
Media business owners and managers can not be put in the position of being politically correct at the expense of their stockholders and their customers(viewers).
To see a conspiracy against minorities, by the media, is not accurate. They are simpley doing business in an efficient manner by targeting an audience and selling the appropriate commercial time in the limited time alloted. That is what dictates story choice, not racism.
Phoney stats…
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Did I twist that enough?
June 16th, 2005 at 5:06 pmI’ll bite with you on Laci Peterson and Natalee Holloway, although I don’t blame “the media” so much as the public at large. These kinds of stories originally get reported locally or maybe get scant national or wire service attention — and it’s only after they get a big response that the feeding frenzy starts. And you’ve got to admit that even these stories are pretty poignant — along “trouble in paradise” lines — in ways that your everyday murder or kidnapping isn’t. “Kidnapped on a school trip abroad” usually gets its share of attention.
And Columbine is in a different league from Red Lake — there have been plenty of school shootings since Columbine, and all of them, just like Red Lake, got a day or two on the national news and then faded away. But Columbine was different. It wasn’t just one messed-up kid who grabbed a hunting rifle and started shooting — it was a meticulously planned schoolyard insurrection by a group of kids (and young adults) who nearly succeeded in detonating their high school kitchen. It raised questions about everything from the bitter reality of the caste systems tolerated at large American high schools to the easy, anonymous availability of rapid-fire weapons at gun shows. *Every* state in the union debated issues of gun control, school size and school safety policy in its wake.
I’m not saying the mass media don’t reflect racial/cultural/socioeconomic bias in feeding on stories like Laci Peterson while downplaying the plights of poor or minority women when they are murdered by their husbands. But most of the reporters I’ve known have been way more open and fair about this sort of thing than your average person. The media “feeding frenzy” only happens because the public demand coverage of individual stories.
Plus, you’re picking your examples. There are plenty of white people who disappear or are murdered every day, and hardly any of them make the national news, either. A Lexis search for Tamika Huston turned up 23 stories? And you’re complaining? That’s a lot — your average missing person is lucky to get one.
Not every crime can get Laci Peterson attention. For one thing, if it did, then 4 out of every 5 Americans would have to work as reporters, and the other 1 out of 5 would have to spend 36 hours a day watching CNN just to keep up!
June 16th, 2005 at 5:34 pmLet me add 2 more:
Shoshanna Johnson
Jessica Lynch
Both were injured in the same accident in Iraq, “rescued” by our military at the same time, similar injuries . . . one gets a house, a book, TV coverage, movie of the week, blah, blah — the other is black so ‘nadda”
June 16th, 2005 at 5:52 pmGreat post! I’ve believed this about the media ever since that Jon Benet crap inundated the airwaves with idle speculation. I always delight in reading other blogs that see the same thing.
June 16th, 2005 at 5:58 pmLets face it…Mainstream media is Blogs.
Your local stations report local news, weather and sports..
24 hour news is tabloid news.
Blogs rule and are the most productive source of information in this country today.
June 16th, 2005 at 6:52 pmYou’re guilty of some hyperbole here. Yes white and attractive does draw eyeballs but there are other reasons for interest. Other extraordinary factors, like when, how, and where the person was killed or disappeared, contributed to these cases becoming so covered:
-Jennifer Wilbanks disappeared right before her wedding.
June 16th, 2005 at 8:03 pm-Natalee Holloway disappeared literally hours before she was to fly home.
-Laci Peterson was pregnant.
-JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her house while her parents were there.
-Chandra Levy was killed during an adulterous affair with a politician
Do only middle class or higher white, attractive damsels get this sort of media attention?
Not necessarily. Celebrity victims of any color get lots of attention. Child victims, regardless of color or wealth, get lots of attention. Jessica Lunsford who lived in a trailer was killed by a registered sex offender this year got lots of media attention. There is also the African American baby that was killed by her mother in 1998 got a lot of media attention.
June 16th, 2005 at 8:04 pmTwo african american girls have been missing from Chicago since 2001…
The latest media coverage was about three weeks ago when some bones were found in an industrial area.
The bones were not those of the missing girls.
I live in Chicago so I have heard about this story once since 2001.
Has anybody else heard about these missing girls?
Tionda and Diamond Bradley.
The sisters were aged ten and three, respectively, when they disappeared from their South Side home.
June 16th, 2005 at 9:46 pmI believe Dave Chappelle talked about this in his last stand up special on Showtime. i cant recall exactly what was said, but it was truly tasteless and truly brilliant.
June 17th, 2005 at 12:16 amIf a democrat is involved IT’S BIG EFF’N NEWS!
June 17th, 2005 at 2:13 amRoy is blind but he can’t see it. I think Frist is his Dr. and Roy should get a second opinion.
June 17th, 2005 at 2:15 amRoy,
Remember that hispanic kid that went missing in 1997 or 98? I don’t remember his name or where he lived. He was from the South or maybe the Southwest. It doesn’t matter, he got lots of media attention.
Bet everyone knows the force fed details of Laci Peterson, JonBenet, Holloway etc.
Keep your eyes focused on my amulet as I slooowly swink it baaaaack and fooooorth. You are getting sleepy.
June 17th, 2005 at 8:40 amDamn,1000% correct. The msm will ONLY focus on white,well-off,good lookinh women,who go missing.
June 17th, 2005 at 9:01 amRoy and JH, your angry white man credentials are showing. Caitilin is just married to an angry white man. katie Holmes is missing! Tom just proposed! Run Katie, Run!
June 17th, 2005 at 9:10 am“Your women and your comfortable lifestyle are in danger of being lost. Hold on to the status Quo. This is just a message from the emergency broadcast system”.
June 17th, 2005 at 9:31 amThis has been going on for eons. Time to question it.
Pseudo Tony,
Pretty close, good job!
I agree that the lack of awareness of minority-involved tragedies is a problem. But how to fix the problem? The only solution is for us concerned people to get the word out. Luckily we live in the internet age and can get the word out easier than ever before.
June 17th, 2005 at 10:22 amI am going to defend Tony, here. He is a right libertarian, but I never get the sense that he is racist in any way.
June 17th, 2005 at 12:14 pmI could be wrong about Tony, don’t think so, but Psuedo-Tony was a hoot!
June 17th, 2005 at 12:15 pmLet’s review – the MSM are corporate entities (read “profit-driven”). What sells? Sex. What is sexy? Pretty white women, because it is hammered into our heads every minute of the day by every damn media and advertising entity operating in this country. The media generates its own market by continuing to push the same stereotypes about what constitutes beauty and success. It is a self-supporting system, and the entire national economy serves the lie. You can’t look at a single advertisement and not see the stereotypes being used to sell a product.
The solution: boycott the MSM. Kill their ratings, shrink their market segment. Kepp blogging!
June 17th, 2005 at 12:44 pmI left a short post earlier because I had to go somewhere. I’m back. Sex does sell and apparently the media will cover the disappearance of white,anglo-saxon protestant good-looking young females. By the way for mean liberal;three more women that need to disappear. Bay Buchanan,Dr Laura and E.D.(the faux shill) Hill. a
June 17th, 2005 at 1:00 pmThere can be several reasons why Red Lake fell off the media radar after a week that have little or nothing to do with race or racism.
There are several things that come to mind that may explain the difference in coverage.
First of all, back when Columbine went down, it was 1999, a time of relative world peace, back before the Iraq war, which now fills a lot of the “news hole” that otherwise might have been devoted to this domestic story and given it a couple more weeks of legs.
Futhermore, I hate to say it, but school shootings are becoming almost routine.
The media travel in packs, as anyone with the slightest power of observation is aware, and they have shorter attention spans than an ADD kid off Ritalin and on a sugar high.
I suspect some other story simply distracted them and they all went trotting off after the latest shiny object.
June 17th, 2005 at 9:54 pmNope, no racism here, Steve. Have you seen this picture of all the black Republicans in Congress? It may take awhile to load. Be patient.
June 17th, 2005 at 11:31 pmRacism is Alive And Well In America
Let’s face it, America is a land where white life is more important than black life.
No matter how they frame it, racism is the reason Tamika was never mentioned on the major and cable networks as it should have been. I knew her shortly after she disappeared. Additionally, my friends discussed this case often in the past year.
As a black man, I have never had to look at my hand to remind me of my color. They are white folk out there who will let you know your color regardless the state or city.
This is not to say that whites are racist generally. Indeed, it has been my experience that blacks can be more racist than any white person. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, I think, are the most visible of this lot.
For a long time now, every time, I hear of some new white female missing, my immediate response is who gives a s***!
White people can never live as blacks. Where something to happen to cause white people to wake up black, this nation would witness mass suicides.
June 19th, 2005 at 12:00 amThank you. I’m tired of media taking sellable stories and driving them into middle America’s consciousness while stories about people of color languish.
June 19th, 2005 at 4:30 pm#15….I love the list, well said!!
June 20th, 2005 at 11:41 amLet’s face it, this is like preaching to the choir. Those who get it get it and those that don’t, never will.
Unfortunately, I believe the majority of our nation is in the second category. And the media just feeds them what they want. It goes by a different name yet it is still racism in America. Each day I am in awe of the people I meet that belong to a “minority” group and how they don’t let the constant negativism, stereotyping, and lightly veiled insinuations get them down.
June 22nd, 2005 at 10:25 pmi was just made aware of the Tamika Huston story. this does not shock me. this kind of blatant disregard is typical in America…or perhaps i am just making too big a deal about something (racism) that does not exist as one of my white friends recently said to me. this situation makes me sad, because it is frightening to think of how many non-white or poor white children are missing that could have been or can be found if they garnered as much attention as these beautiful white women.
I saw Tamika’s aunt Rebecca interviewed on Nancy Grace. she says that she doesn’t think that those who are in charge of producing the news make a conscious effort to squelch the stories of missing non-whites. I have to disagree with her. I agree more with Mark Klaas who was also on the show, the only reason Tamika’s story (and others like her) didn’t warrant nationwide coverage is because she is black and only because she is black.
However, returning to my friend who feels that black people make a big deal out of nothing, how can he really understand that racism is alive and well (espcially closet racism) in the great US of A. And the racism is on both sides. I think Al Sharpton is just as much a racist as David Duke and I can’t stand it coming from either side.
Getting back to the news coverage of missing people – anyone who feels that the media isn’t biased in favor of beautiful middle to upper class whites, is simply speaking out of blind ignorance. they don’t want to see the truth. it won’t be until lower middle class whites are somehow affected by the media bias that they will finally see that what blacks and hispanics have been complaining about is actually a real problem.
what saddens me more is that lower middle class or poor white people don’t realize that they have more in common with black and hispanic americans than they realize. and that is just want those in power, rich white men (and we all know that is who runs things in this country – please let’s not pretend that “THE PEOPLE” do) want thing to be. however, it is easier to pull the wool over the eyes of their less fortunate counterparts who believe that these powerful men have their interests at heart. So while blowing smoke up the butts of poorer whites and blinding them to what is really going on, they use racial stereotypes to keep them preoccupied so they cannot pay attention to the real agenda, and that is to seize and maintain power for themselves.
just look at it this way, if there were no black or hispanics for politician and the media to use as scapegoats – let’s say we just didn’t exist – who do you supposed they would use for cannon fodder?
finally, someone asked about statistics. here is some information i found at the CBS news website:
“According to FBI statistics and USA Today, men are more likely than women to be reported missing,and blacks make up a disproportionately large segment of the victims. However, you wouldn’t know that from watching television, listening to the radio or reading national newspapers.
Since May 1, FBI statistics indicate there were 25,389 men and 22,200 women listed as missing. Of the total of missing women since May 1, 8,681 were minorities (this includes Asian, African-American, American Indian and other minorities except Hispanics.) This compares to 13,519 white and Hispanic women. (It is not clear how many of those are Hispanic.)”
July 5th, 2005 at 12:27 amLet’s review. Several names have been bandied about to support the belief that white racism is alive and well in the news media: Natalee Holloway, JonBenet Ramsey, Chandra Levy, Jennifer Wilbanks, ad nauseam. It seems that all bloggers and respondents know these names and know them in a casual, off-handed way that lends credence to the theory that we’ve been inundated with them to the point that they are conjured up almost effortlessly. Of all the other cases, i.e. those with a minority at the center, names are less familiar (if they are referenced at all). Why do you think that is? Hopefully the families of Tamika Huston, Tionda and Diamond Bradley and Evelyn Hernandez and all the other lost souls will find some peace knowing that not everyone has forgotten their loved ones.
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July 16th, 2005 at 9:32 pmhttp://www.pufan.com
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/27/Philadelphia.missing/index.html
Case in point!
July 27th, 2005 at 6:16 pmcaitlyns comment. Get a clue. There was nothing said about who should be cared about more or less in a missing persons case!!! the POINT was that WE are ALL EQUAL!!! and should be treated that way. wake up!
August 5th, 2005 at 2:19 pmI absolutely agree with the notion that the so-called “Damsels in Distress” are geared in the media more toward young blond white women. I happen to work in LA in the Entertainment industry and the Entertainment industry on a whole regularly practices all of the isms (race, age, weight, sex) and any other ism you can find. How on earth would anyone suspect or not definitively not know that the news media wouldn’t follow suit. After all, the news has basically turned into tabloid journalism anyway. I would never have heard of Tamika Huston, if it weren’t for an unlike source like Star Jones on the View mentioning her a couple of months ago. However, ladies we can’t blame this on just the media, we have to look at ourselves and the Black community as a whole. Did any of you know that we comprise 13% of the population which translates into strong economic power, however stars like Halle Berry, Beyonce and Vivica A. Fox and Denzel Washington can’t even get a cover on such magazines that we buy as Vanity Fair, Vogue, etc…and just about the only ones who can is Halle or Will Smith??? Look at the Fall TV schedule, do you see any Black woman in a prominent role except Afre Woodard on Desperate Housewives and we all can assume what that role will be; teenage son who will probably be a criminal or a playa and her character will probably be pushed into the background only to be pranced out when they need to show a Black face. Ms. Woodard wasn’t even at or shown at the 3 ABC events, but Jolie Fisher was, who is also a new character on the show. We as a whole need to bombard the networks, movie studios and magazines long, hard and frequently in order for them to fully understand our discontent instead of quietly seething under our breaths. Put an economic dent in these shows, movies and magazines, because in the end Money is what white people truely hear and understand. My husband brought up a very good point recently when he and his friends were watching the NBA playoffs and Finals; he said that if Tony Parker (one of the Spurs)was dating Beyonce or Halle, would the networks be constantly pushing Eva Longoria down our throats and by working in the industry, my answer to that question would be no, because Black women, no matter how famous or rich, is still not in the eyes of Hollywood considered beautiful, desirable or sexy even though two of the most powerful women in the world are African American. We are the only ones that can effect change.
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January 1st, 2006 at 3:37 pmAre you kidding me? There is only one group of people in the united States treated unfairly. And they have been in North America for a very long time. And no its no Native American tribe. The Mexicans are the only ones. Think about how the Native American suffered severely however, they are getting reservations, free college of their choice, they dont even pay taxes. What the hell! My people got it much worse and are still oppressed. A bunch of white men come down to our country, and dont want to obey the rules. So what do they do. Form a drunken possy and start killing everyone. Then claim the land around them as their country and call it Texas. Finally when they lose all their money the United States annex Texas. Then were all like “hold on just a minute their cowboy you arent giving are land to those rich white snobs. But its too late.” So we say you wanna go to war, ok we’ll go to war then. And not only do we not get Texas back they decide to take Florida, California and New Mexico. These “States,” and our labor are what has made the US what it is today. You stole our land, built a gate around it and now were illegal aliens in a land that was ours to begin with.- Jesse Anderer
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