RACIAL PROFILING BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA

JUST LOOK AT THE TV LINE-UP OF ANCHORS ON ANY NEWS SHOW. IT'S ALMOST ALWAYS TWO MEN AND THE BLOND WOMAN. AND OUT IN THE FIELD IS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN REPORTER, A CHINESE REPORTER WHERE THERE IS A LARGE ORIENTAL POPULATION, AND MOST RECENTLY, A SPANISH REPORTER.

Do you really think the blond woman at that anchor desk was the best person for the job? Or did she fit the slot designated 'blond woman'?

And why only one African American reporter? There was only one African American qualified to be a reporter?

No.

He filled the slot designated 'African American'.

There aren't 2 slots for African Americans, so only one got hired.

Opinion shows have their African American pundits, too. A few. But watching the line-up at any time, it's easy to see there was a call put out: We need a woman and an African American to argue with the two white guys.

If that's not profiling, what is?

In News Show Headquarters they probably say they're doing a good thing, opening slots for minorities.

The other side of that is there shouldn't be slots based on gender and heritage.

Why can't the best person for the job get the job, regardless of gender or skin color? Why can't there be a whole line-up of African Americans if they're the most qualified?

Why the profiling? Is it to let minorities in or to keep too many out?

While the mainstream media continues to fill it's slots with the designated colors, they're also showing their racist bent by fawning over Barack Obama.

There's no other word to use but CONDESCENDING for the way the media treats him.

Did they treat Barack Obama the way they have treated every other Presidential candidate?

No.

Example: Barack Obama refused to release his college grades, which can only mean they were low grades, but the media didn't set up the hue and cry they normally would have.

Instead, they tell us he's smart.

How do they know that?

They saw him read speeches. How brilliant does a man have to be to read a speech?

And, while a candidate, it was discovered Obama had some questionable associations. There was his 20 year membership in Jeremiah Wright's church, where Wright preached some seemingly anti-American sermons.

The media excused Wright, describing him as 'like a crazy old uncle'.

Barack Obama was elected President.

Who voted for him?

A lot of white people had to have cast their vote for Obama. He couldn't have been elected just with minority votes.

Yet the mainstream media brands anyone who disagrees with Obama as a racist. Even the ones who voted for him but don't like the way he's governing are considered racists by the media.

Did you ever notice that it's the thief who worries most about being robbed? He thinks the world is full of thieves just like himself.

In that same way, the mainstream media sees racists everywhere, because they are racists.

When Baracki Obama quickly jumped to the defense of the Harvard professor who claimed he was abused by a Cambridge cop, the mainstream media joined in with stories about how cops profile.

A favorite subject of theirs was the old 'driving while black' urban legend.

Most African Americans have a story about being pulled over by a cop, and they believe it was because they are black.

I'm not black, but I've been pulled over a few times.

One time I was a passenger in a van and it was past midnight. I knew why the cop pulled us over. In those days cops knew drug dealers often drove vans.

The cop asked for ID's and where we were going, satisfying himself that we weren't up to no good, and told us to be on our way.

The same thing happened another time, in another state.

Another night I was driving home from work in a snow storm, going about 20 miles an hour, and after a while I noticed a car was following me. Then the blue lights went on and I pulled over.

The cop came up to my window and checked my ID, then asked me if I'd been drinking. I said no, I just got out of work. So then he asked me if I knew why he pulled me over. I ventured a guess, "Maybe I was going too slow?"

Actually, the road was completely covered with inches of snow and no tire tracks to follow, and I'd wandered into the other lane,

"You were on the wrong side of the road", he explained.

And then he sent me on my way.

He didn't give me a ticket.

If I was black, maybe I'd think he pulled me over because I was black.

There was another night, another cop.

I was speeding, 20 miles an hour over the speed limit.

It was after midnight, I was on my way home from work, I was the only car on the road, just cruising along. Then I noticed the cop parked on the side of the road, but too late to slow down much.

Blue lights. Cop at my car's window. ID.

Did I mention I had my work shirt on, with the company logo above the pocket?

"Where you going?"

"Home; I just got out of work"

I didn't get a ticket.

"Do you know you have a headlight burned out?"

"I was starting to wonder about that; it seemed kind of dark."

The cop said I ought to get it fixed and I said I'd do that tomorrow.

And he sent me on my way.

Never mentioned speeding.

My guess is that when the cop came up to my window and saw my work shirt, and I treated him with respect, he decided to go easy on me.

Would a black person think he'd been stopped for driving while black?

The mainstream media likes to portray cops as racists because it makes them feel good, being on the side of the black man.

A neighbor of the Harvard professor had called the police, saying someone might be breaking into his house.

Cop arrives to investigate.

Professor gets defensive, how dare you come to my door?

Cop has to have proof this is really the professor's house. He can't just take the guy's word for it and leave. What if the guy is lying and proceeds to rob the place?

The mainstream media declared, "There were photographs of black people on the walls! All the cop had to do was look at them!"

Do you mean that because there were photos of black people, the cop should assume this black man belongs here? Like a black man wouldn't rob another black man's house?

Why wouldn't the professor simply show his ID without making a scene?

The mainstream media didn't ask that question.

But what irks me the most about the mainstream media is how they act like cheerleaders for Obama. Cheerleaders or grandmothers.

"Oh, look, isn't he cute! He just signed a bill! Isn't that wonderful! He's simply brilliant! Look how he signed his name! No other President before him has signed a bill with such panache!"

Barack Obama is not a cute little boy, yet that's the way the mainstream media portrays him.

Why?

Because they really are racists and they don't know how to handle having a black President.

So, instead, they treat him like a little black boy who did good for himself.

It makes them feel good to cheerlead for Barack Obama because they think that proves they really aren't racists, even though they live insulated lives, afraid of anyone outside their small circle of elite friends.

Chris Matthews listened to President Obama give a speech and commented that for an hour, he'd forgotten Barack Obama was black.

Holy cow!

Out here in the real world, where the mainstream never goes, our neighborhoods and schools are diverse and generations have grown up mingling and making friends. But the mainstream media ignores that fact.

We don't notice a person's skin color first. Out here in the real world there are so many shades of skin and so many ethnicities they don't matter to us. We notice whether someone is friendly, cheerful, interesting, those things that make us want to get to know someone better.

If the mainstream media wasn't racist, they would have investigated Barack Obama and they would be reporting on him now.

Obama admitted in one of his books that he'd smoked a lot of marijuana and done a lot of cocaine in his high school and college years.

Remember how the media confronted past candidates about any suspected drug use?

But they gave Obama a pass.

What were they saying to eachother? "Well, he was a black kid, what can you expect?"

WOW.

And not one reporter asked him exactly how long it's been since he used any drugs.

I'd really like to know the answer to that question. He's a cigarette smoker who can't kick the habit, explaining he doesn't smoke in front of his children.

HMMMM.

I don't dislike Barack Obama.

I do dislike the mainstream media, who won't do the job they should be doing.

So I don't trust the media to tell us the truth. As far as I'm concerned, they're nothing but a propoganda machine now, afraid to question our President because they're afraid of seeming to be racists.

Barack Obama is a man. Why doesn't the media treat him as one?

They just can't get past the fact that his father was African.

What if his father had been Chinese?

Would the media be fawning over a Chinese President? Acting as though he's just the cutest little boy? Excusing all of his mistakes?

Barack Obama, in a speech, once said there are 57 states in the U.S.

Obviously he made a mistake. And everybody makes mistakes. But if it was any other candidate, the media woud have been all over it until he had explained how or why he had made the mistake and made it clear he kknows there are 50 states.

Not with Obama.

Because the media was afraid to find fault with him. Any fault.

The mainstream media has become a disgusting tool for the President, but that's not Obama's fault. It's their fault.

The media is racist.

It shows.

And they profile.

It shows.

And so they patronize our President, all the while thinking their condescention doesn't show.

BUT WORST OF ALL IS THAT THE MEDIA IS NOT DOING THEIR JOB. THEY HAVE FORFEITED THEIR OBJECTIVITY.

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