RACE to the Finish: Who Can make fun of Minorities in the News First?

A very popular thing today, is seeing how we can make examples of race in our daily news. We use a "story" such as attempted rape, apartment fires, and town folklore to mask our true intentions; which is, to provide entertainment through the comical objectification of the people that have these stories as their lives. Yes, most of the people that make these prime time entertainment (not news, whatsoever) spots, are minorities with colorful personalities. Instead of focusing on the details of stories that are real dangers in areas where people actually live, we look at the way they make light of the situation to survive by acting dynamically. What else would they have? If they don't make light of the situation or try to show dramatic strength, who else would? Us. We take advantage of it and spin it on its head to make ourselves feel better about the bad things that exist in this world. Did anyone really ask the young woman if her and her daughter we truly ok and safe in the Antoine Dodson video? No. They showed the short clip they had to for moral coverage, and then let the rest of it go to Antoine. It is great that he was speaking out against the perpetrator and trying to protect his sister, but making that the shorter clip and getting down to the real information would have been just fine too. The information about what happened and how everyone was being taken care of in the "Ain't nobody got time for that" story was the last 5 seconds of the video and was blown by quickly. The footage shown about the Mobile leprechaun includes people trying to make their arguments about the existence of this myth, with biased editing of the most eccentric things they said and did. After they return to the news room the anchors do nothing but make fun of these people, instead of trying to be serious, professional and possibly stand up for their local neighbors. Do you notice another trend about all of these news stories that end up viral? All of the victims and the interviewees are black. What does that say about how the news views black people and their stories? It obviously means they think we want to make fun of them, justifying them doing it too. That shows a great deal about our relationship with the media. We watch what they give us, and they give us what they think we will watch. If we allow them to keep making spectacles of people in the name of "news", rather than providing us information about the world around the people and us, we are creating a toxic system. We are going without the educational information about the world we need, and people are never going to be taken seriously. Every human being deserves the care of others, so let's start by calling out the media when they try to underhandedly attack our fellow people.