THE RACE ISSUE: VOLUME 121, ISSUE 150
COLOR CORRECTION
by Malik Isasis
To go along with its theme of colored people ruining the lives of white people, the corporate media has targeted black Democratic Congressman Charlie Rangel, representing Harlem, and Congresswoman Maxine Waters, representing Watts. With power comes corruption, and no ethnic group is beyond corruption, but what makes this a targeting is the veracity, and certainty of guilt in the media's conjecture. Writer Earl Ofrai Hutchinson explains it this way:
The names of Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel and California Congresswoman Maxine Waters are now firmly imprinted in the media and public mind as the poster duo for congressional corruption. They're black, high profile, are ranking Democrats, and they're outspoken. That instantly made them inviting and even dispensable targets. The media crucifixion of Waters and Rangel absolves Congress of taking any real action against its worst offenders. Since the Rangel and Waters imbroglio broke, there's been much wild and loose talk, speculation, rumor and innuendo that Waters and Rangel will take your pick: resign, cut a deal, receive a reprimand, or a censure, or the most absurd of all, be expelled.
A media which has disappeared the failings of George Bush and the Republicans' torture policy, illegal wiretap, embezzlement of federal funds, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq, and many other inhumane offenses, have chosen to make Maxine Waters, and Charles Rangle the face of corruption of 2010, inspite of there being several Republicans like David Vitter who sought out prostitutions, and is still in the senate, advocating rightwing policies. How about Republican Senator John Ensign, who had an affair with his staffer's wife, and then bribed the staffer with his parents' money; of course he is still in the seante carrying on with rightwing advocacy.
MAN BITES DOG
Waters and Rangel fit into the narrative the media creates to deflect, more accurately to sustain the political amnesia, which is apt to put Republicans back in power. Misinformation plays to the ongoing white paranoia brought on by economic distress, where white folks are having to reconstruct their egos, and what better way of reconstructing your ego than to blame others for the lack of employment and opportunities? Last I checked, corporations aren't owned by Black folks. Hitler proved to be a genius in this regard, blaming German's loss of World War I and its economic depression on German and Austria's Jewry. Blaming so that he can consolidate power.
White supremacists in America are doing this tried and true formula, using the economic downturn to racialize every aspect of American life, pitting poor whites against poor blacks, immigrants, and other people of color. It's what white supremacists do, they need the constant distraction of race wars to steal, and consolidate power and influence.
TOO BIG TO FAIL, TOO BLACK TO PROGRESS
COLOR CORRECTION
by Malik Isasis
To go along with its theme of colored people ruining the lives of white people, the corporate media has targeted black Democratic Congressman Charlie Rangel, representing Harlem, and Congresswoman Maxine Waters, representing Watts. With power comes corruption, and no ethnic group is beyond corruption, but what makes this a targeting is the veracity, and certainty of guilt in the media's conjecture. Writer Earl Ofrai Hutchinson explains it this way:
The names of Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel and California Congresswoman Maxine Waters are now firmly imprinted in the media and public mind as the poster duo for congressional corruption. They're black, high profile, are ranking Democrats, and they're outspoken. That instantly made them inviting and even dispensable targets. The media crucifixion of Waters and Rangel absolves Congress of taking any real action against its worst offenders. Since the Rangel and Waters imbroglio broke, there's been much wild and loose talk, speculation, rumor and innuendo that Waters and Rangel will take your pick: resign, cut a deal, receive a reprimand, or a censure, or the most absurd of all, be expelled.
A media which has disappeared the failings of George Bush and the Republicans' torture policy, illegal wiretap, embezzlement of federal funds, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq, and many other inhumane offenses, have chosen to make Maxine Waters, and Charles Rangle the face of corruption of 2010, inspite of there being several Republicans like David Vitter who sought out prostitutions, and is still in the senate, advocating rightwing policies. How about Republican Senator John Ensign, who had an affair with his staffer's wife, and then bribed the staffer with his parents' money; of course he is still in the seante carrying on with rightwing advocacy.
MAN BITES DOG
Waters and Rangel fit into the narrative the media creates to deflect, more accurately to sustain the political amnesia, which is apt to put Republicans back in power. Misinformation plays to the ongoing white paranoia brought on by economic distress, where white folks are having to reconstruct their egos, and what better way of reconstructing your ego than to blame others for the lack of employment and opportunities? Last I checked, corporations aren't owned by Black folks. Hitler proved to be a genius in this regard, blaming German's loss of World War I and its economic depression on German and Austria's Jewry. Blaming so that he can consolidate power.
White supremacists in America are doing this tried and true formula, using the economic downturn to racialize every aspect of American life, pitting poor whites against poor blacks, immigrants, and other people of color. It's what white supremacists do, they need the constant distraction of race wars to steal, and consolidate power and influence.
TOO BIG TO FAIL, TOO BLACK TO PROGRESS
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