In our last race, gender and the media class, we discussed race and local TV. We had a long discussion about the Antoine Dodson video that went viral. I completely agree that, as a TV station, there was no need to put that entire comment on the air. They should have edited the information more. Also, there should have been information about the suspect.
Our other discussion was about minorities always on TV for crime. I think minorities are always tied with crimes on TV because they usually are tied with crimes in real life. Most crimes take place where there are drugs and money. Both of these things run rampant in the projects and low-economical neighborhoods. Does this mean that all minorities do crimes? No. Should they be portrayed this way? No. The only way to fix this is having TV stations show less crime and find better alternatives about minorities in the community.
Race is always going to be an issue. Someone is always going to be unhappy and will be pointing a finger. I sometimes wish the word “race” would be dropped because I feel like everyone who lives in America is American, no matter what color you are. It just seems like the people who always bring up race are the ones who say they want “racism” to be non-existent. Who knows. I think this class will be interesting but I can see, from the list of things we talk about, that there will be a lot of disagreements. I’m just going to have to control what I say and how I say it.
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