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Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

— bell hooks

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When a black person kills a black person, the media ignores it completely.

— Ben Shapiro

In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.

— bell hooks

Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

— Aberjhani

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

— Andrea Mitchell

The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment.

— Henry Giroux

Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons.

— Tim Wise

The media's image of us is as animals, and we were never that to me. I knew love from black folks.

— James McBride

For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.

— Tavi Gevinson

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

— Julian Bond

✗Opposing Perspectives

The press is largely directed at white society or the so-called electorate whose values are laced with racial prejudice against black people.

— Steven Biko