In the article she tells a story about a white couple who was supposedly attacked by a black man who shot a man in the stomach and shot his wife in the head. The story got a lot of media coverage and never ever looked into the husbands back ground because he was white attacked by a black man in a black community. They sympathized with the white gentleman and never suspected him as the criminal. Like she mentioned if he was black he would never get this kind of media coverage because this is expected from the black culture. Even though later on the truth came out that he was really the killer after he shot himself. This just shows you how media against the black culture always gets misrepresented and seem to care if they do. They are trying to portray that blacks are only victims in their own culture and could never be a victim in the white culture. I liked how she focused her article on high profiled crime media stories like the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson. I believe that theses are examples on how news media can enforce certain privileges and powers on certain cultures, like on the blacks and whites. What we see the most on the news is what we are thinking is mainly going on in our culture and if the news media is blaming the black women to have more force in a relationship and is the cause of a dysfunctional family structure. This is believed to cause their children to end up being violent and causing them to commit crimes and how this could only occur in a black culture/community.
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