THE RACE ISSUE: VOLUME 117, ISSUE 145
THE RISE OF THE RAGE JUNKIES:
How Fox News Madly Stokes Racial Division and the Rest of Mainstream Media Goes Along
by Malik Isasis




White Supremacy is the belief that members of the Caucasian race are superior in all ways to other groups or races in the world. In the history of the United States, white supremacy has existed as a means of justifying and preserving the nation as a white Christian country. The history of white supremacy is closely tied to the presence of slavery and the emergence, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the theories and categorizations of groups and nations into races. In the United States the presence of slavery and its continuance and growth in the South served as a strong foundation for white supremacy. Also important was immigration, first of the Irish and later of eastern and Mediterranean Europeans, which heightened the belief in the superiority of whiteness, defined as White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

It must be political season, because the Republicans and its political operatives are hitting every low-hanging racial piñata from—illegal immigration: Mexicans, War & Terrorism: Arabs and Muslims, and a separatist movement: a la The New Black Panther Party, and America’s favorite whipping boy, and old stand by, Blacks. There’s nothing like, politically beating up on black folks. As if four centuries of rape, pillage, American apartheid, genocide, and countless other crimes against humanity against African Americans just wasn’t enough.

White supremacists keep coming back to the well to fill up their false sense of superiority. People of color are violent, lazy, petulant, racist, overly sexed, and a White Man’s burden; there is just no other message you can take away from media coverage of people of color in this country.

White supremacists in the past used code words in disseminating racist thought, e.g. urban, low-income, uppity, American values, but since the election of Barack Hussein Obama, the dog whistle of etiquette has been thrown out of the window. The corporate media and the white supremacists they employ, like in the days of yore, gloriously flaunt their hatred of people of color over the public airwaves.

Back in April of 1994 there was a genocide in Rwanda, Africa. The genocide was the result of a number complex issues such as civil war and strife and neocolonialism by the Europeans. Tutsis and Hutus, genetically the same were divided politically by Europeans (German and Belgian specifically), with the Tutsi the minority tribe being appointed a more superior racial type than Hutus, a numerical majority, thus began the seeds that would blossom into a full blown genocide once the European colonists Germany, and Belgian uprooted.

For 100 days, a million people were murdered, shot, raped and hacked to death with machetes. It was called the most efficient and coordinated genocide in human history, but in America there was a perverse obsession with the O.J. Simpson Murder case (for which thousands of hours were dedicated), and during the genocide, the corporate media garnered more sympathy for the silver back gorillas who were being slaughtered in the cross-fire than their human brethren. 10,000 black, African bodies floated down the Nyabarongo River hundreds miles to neighboring countries, as America watched O.J. Simpson.

The reasons the genocide was so efficient was the media: world media turning a blind-eye, and the local radio disc jockeys telling the murders where to find people hiding, broadcasting their whereabouts. The radio stations stirred the hatred and fueled the holocaust that was Rwanda, which brings me back to Fox News and its war on intelligence. The huge social digression of American culture is unsettling, and what’s more disturbing is how Fox News gets away with their divisive discourse.

Scholar and author Neely Fuller, Jr. described the four stages of racism (white supremacy) in his book, The United Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept as follows:

1. Establishment of White Supremacy: The sum of all speech and/or action, by those white persons who seek to dominate those classified as non-white
2. Maintenance of White Supremacy: The sum total of all speech and/or action, by those white persons who seek to continue the practice of racism.
3. Expansion of White Supremacy: The sum total of speech and/or action by those white persons who practice racism in a manner that directly, or indirectly help promote an increase in the number of non-white persons made subject to racism.
4. Refinement of White Supremacy: The sum total of all speech, and or/action, by those white persons who practice racism in a manner that improves the methods that help make the practice of racism more efficient, and/or, more “acceptable” to the victims.

A Complicit Media

Although Fox News and its other corporate media counterparts fulfill all four stages of white supremacy, they tend to maintain and refine racist propaganda by passing it off as news and analysis. Let’s take the Tea Party coverage for example. For the past year and half during the healthcare debate, Tea Baggers from the Tea Party marched in the streets with racist imagery of President Obama, carried guns to his speeches, called him a Nazi, socialist, communist, racist, voodoo witch doctor, Kenyan, Muslim, and many other variations.

Tea Baggers stormed townhall meetings and demanded their country back from a democratically elected president and party. The corporate media protected the Tea Baggers by overstating that Tea Baggers were not racist, just angry about a government takeover (code word) of healthcare.

Check out how CNN NEWS “The Most Trusted Name In News” covered the Tea Party:



Here is some footage major news chose not to show on television:


Now here’s Fox News jumping headlong into the fray (unabashedly, with an inarticulate house negro who seems straight out of central casting):



The house negro in the footage is obviously a plant. He had no idea what the hell he was talking about, noticed how his handler jumped in to save him?

FOX NEWS AND THE POLITICAL SEASON

Logic would follow, that if the Tea Party=white supremacy, and Republicans are the Tea Party, then Fox News’ support of both parties renders it a white supremacist corporation.

Fox News was constructed as Rachel Maddow once put it, to destroy the Democratic Party. I would add to that by saying Fox News was also constructed to maintain the equilibrium of white supremacy, to subjugate people of color and completely obliterate their credibility on any issue. Fox News does this by having, outliers on Black, Latino, or Muslim issues debating their hosts. The outlier is usually someone or some organization on the fringe, which Fox uses to set up its straw man arguments.

If one black person represents the race, goes white supremacy theory, that person if discredited, will naturally discredit Black thought, ergo discredit a movement. This strategy was/is used in all social movements from the Civil Rights’ movement, Women’s liberation movement, to Gay Rights movement. Discredit the so-called leaders, and the movement is discredited.

The most recent example of this is the weeklong New Black Panther Party intimidation case, which got hours and hours of airtime on all of Fox’s shows. Look at this interview closely:


Tea Party members are outliers too, but get no such treatment from corporate media. Fox News manufactures issues out of whole cloth and then it finds its way into mainstream media, transforming the absurd, and fringe into the normal. Here is more background on the so-called New Black Panther Movement story.

Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have purposefully devalued the word racist by over using it, and using it inappropriately. If they charge Obama with being racist every day, then when they are charged with it, it has no meaning. They no longer need code words, they just say exactly what they mean, daring anyone to speak out about it.
No matter how educated or well heeled a black person; it only takes white doubt to undermine black credibility. This happened with a black Harvard professor, Henry Lois Gates, Jr, when he found himself locked out of his house and was arrested by a white cop--this happened notoriously after Hurricane Katrina, when a poll (which interviewed 848 whites and 262 blacks) found that 56% of blacks felt the government response was slow because of race, while 51% of whites felt the government response was due to ‘bureaucratic inefficiency’. So the story played out as scripted in the media, minimizing the racism that was indeed part of the government's response to the manmade disaster.

Post Rational Society

I understand why corporate media and wealthy Republicans support Republicans, but why does the average, poor and down-trotted? The answer is as simple as the question, posed. Back in the 60s the Republicans, specifically Richard Nixon, seized upon disaffected white voters who began leaving the party in droves when the Democratic Party began supporting a host of social movements, but mainly the Civil Rights Movement.

The Southern Strategy was designed by Nixon and the Republicans to comfort the bigotry, sexism and prejudices of Southern white men who felt disenfranchised by the Democratic Party’s tacit support of minorities’ and women’s challenge to the white male paradigm. The Democratic Party’s embrace of civil rights and civil liberties in the 60s during the empowerment movements caused a mass exodus of disenfranchised Southern white men.

The Nixon Doctrine was not adopted to address the misperceptions or heal the grievances of these so-called disenfranchised but to build a voting block of white men by pitting their interests against those of people of color and women. Although all of the disenfranchised shared more, in common than not, the Southern Strategy was a euphemism for divide and conquer. This tried and true strategy worked because it fractured communities by individualizing them, if people are fighting rather than discussing their shared grief, a collective revolution is less likely. Politicians and dictators the world over understand this concept.

No matter how horrible Bush was for the country and the world, his support in the polls never faltered below 30%- 33% because Nixon laid down the foundation. The poorest of the poor of Republicans are the most dogmatic about wedge issues such as race, gay marriage, abortion, and Mexicans. The so-called wedge issues keeps the Republicans’ poor wrapped up in their xenophobia. These folks have been convinced that they are the moral center of the country. They have also been convinced that being educated is elitism, staying in and living in squalor is noble, and working two or three jobs to make ends meet is American pie.

We live in a society, an American society were politicians lie outright, and despite Youtube, get away with being a Maverick®., or Reformer®., or a Maverick-Reformer®.. This bullshit works because Americans are jackasses, and was trained to be so.

Rationality has nothing to do with voting Republican because voting Republican has been transformed into a belief system similar to that of religion, where evidence is not necessary to believe in the convictions, because it’s all based in emotions and irrationality. For example, when a major conglomerate ships its company overseas for cheaper labor, the Republicans can convinced their base that it is the Mexicans who are stealing their jobs, contrary to reality. After nearly 40 years of indoctrination, Republican and media tested words like Elitist®, Value Voters®., San Francisco Liberal®., The Most-Liberal Democrat®., American Values®., Tax-Cuts®., HardWork®., and many others, trigger a response in the reptilian brain of the Republican voter that keeps them from accepting reality, which is why Republicans have dominated national politics for 30 years with help from their greatest ally, the corporate media.

So now when you hear these dumb asses shouting, "USA! USA! USA!" to their own demise, you know why.

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