Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People are tired of mainstream media's limited and confined portrayal of people of color.
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.
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.
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.
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.
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.
From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.
The stark reality is that crime happens in communities of color.