Cops are about as dangerous to black people as plastic straws are to sea turtles.
The corporate media manipulates everyone’s mind with constant nonsense not by reporting facts, but by applying their own subjective, biased microscope to whatever they decide to pretend is important.
A black man was caught on videotape beating a white veteran in an old folk’s home. Nobody knows about it. It’s a non-story. Who they were, what their names are, what has happened to them, nothing. Totally memory-holed. If the races were reversed, it would EASILY be the biggest piece of Outrage Porn in the world right now. Hollywood would already be in pre-production on the movie version of the story.
We have to step out of the corporate media bubble and understand HOW and WHY they direct the attention of people like this. They make it seem like THIS particular story (whatever it might be that week) is clearly the most important story in the world, but it’s all a sham. They hand-select what to focus on and blow up to a national level.
Here’s another example. The boy in the Mall of America. A Muslim comes up and grabs him from the top floor and throws him over the edge of a balcony. (Thank God he lived.) I mean imagine that. Imagine a white dude grabbed a black boy and threw him off a balcony in the Mall of America. Think that’s a news story? Think Don Lemon weaponizes that? Think it gets a Twitter-approved hashtag? Instead - totally suppressed. I pay attention to this shit and even I don’t know the boy’s name. But I sure do know who Michael Brown is.
Cops are about as dangerous to black people as plastic straws are to sea turtles.
The corporate media manipulates everyone’s mind with constant nonsense not by reporting facts, but by applying their own subjective, biased microscope to whatever they decide to pretend is important.
A black man was caught on videotape beating a white veteran in an old folk’s home. Nobody knows about it. It’s a non-story. Who they were, what their names are, what has happened to them, nothing. Totally memory-holed. If the races were reversed, it would EASILY be the biggest piece of Outrage Porn in the world right now. Hollywood would already be in pre-production on the movie version of the story.
We have to step out of the corporate media bubble and understand HOW and WHY they direct the attention of people like this. They make it seem like THIS particular story (whatever it might be that week) is clearly the most important story in the world, but it’s all a sham. They hand-select what to focus on and blow up to a national level.
Here’s another example. The boy in the Mall of America. A Muslim comes up and grabs him from the top floor and throws him over the edge of a balcony. (Thank God he lived.) I mean imagine that. Imagine a white dude grabbed a black boy and threw him off a balcony in the Mall of America. Think that’s a news story? Think Don Lemon weaponizes that? Think it gets a Twitter-approved hashtag? Instead - totally suppressed. I pay attention to this shit and even I don’t know the boy’s name. But I sure do know who Michael Brown is.
His name is Landon.