Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Another day, another travesty of so-called journalism
UPDATE: As of the day after, where CNN and others failed, the reviews are in and it looks like the print media actually gets it. Cheers. And onward.
There's missing the point of Sen. Obama's speech on race today - and then there's this travesty of a headline from our friends at CNN.
Might as well have said this:
Completely. Missing. The. Point.
To their credit they eventually changed the headline to "Obama: We can move beyond racial wounds."
But why is it that right out of the gate they presented his speech - his challenge to move beyond racial wounds - framed in such racially charged and anti-patriotic language? Completely betraying an inherent inability to rise to his challenge?
And CNN is not alone.
It's like you can't acknowledge the difference between the ideals of what America professes to be and the realities of what it's been - even if your endgame is a coming together, a positive movement beyond the past towards attaining that ideal.
The focus is always going to be "why are these Negroes so damn angry?"
Here's the CNN headline you'll never see:
That quote isn't made up. It's directly from the transcript of his remarks.
So is anyone going to condemn his grandmother? Ask him to "renounce and reject" her?
Why are these Negroes so damn angry?
It reminds me of the white fellow at the Halloween party wearing blackface.
I attempted to politely inform him that, while he may consider it all just a joke, blackface has an undeniably racist history.
He was offended that I was offended.
Why are these Negroes so damn angry?
Not unlike the woman who claimed there was no racist motivation when her family hurled racial epithets at a black news reporter as they were beating her to the ground.
Also: you'd think that someone as smart as this guy wouldn't refer to the accusations of using racially-charged language as a "mugging." Racist? I dunno. But race baiting? Like I said... he's a smart guy. And remember: he was cautioned to cut the shit two months ago.
Like I said, it's taking every ounce of my being to keep from exploding onto the pages of this blog about how gross and disgusting this so-called election has become.
Back to my hole.
Pleasemakeitstopitshurtingmysoul.
There's missing the point of Sen. Obama's speech on race today - and then there's this travesty of a headline from our friends at CNN.
Might as well have said this:
Completely. Missing. The. Point.
To their credit they eventually changed the headline to "Obama: We can move beyond racial wounds."
But why is it that right out of the gate they presented his speech - his challenge to move beyond racial wounds - framed in such racially charged and anti-patriotic language? Completely betraying an inherent inability to rise to his challenge?
And CNN is not alone.
It's like you can't acknowledge the difference between the ideals of what America professes to be and the realities of what it's been - even if your endgame is a coming together, a positive movement beyond the past towards attaining that ideal.
The focus is always going to be "why are these Negroes so damn angry?"
Here's the CNN headline you'll never see:
That quote isn't made up. It's directly from the transcript of his remarks.
So is anyone going to condemn his grandmother? Ask him to "renounce and reject" her?
Why are these Negroes so damn angry?
It reminds me of the white fellow at the Halloween party wearing blackface.
I attempted to politely inform him that, while he may consider it all just a joke, blackface has an undeniably racist history.
He was offended that I was offended.
Why are these Negroes so damn angry?
Not unlike the woman who claimed there was no racist motivation when her family hurled racial epithets at a black news reporter as they were beating her to the ground.
Also: you'd think that someone as smart as this guy wouldn't refer to the accusations of using racially-charged language as a "mugging." Racist? I dunno. But race baiting? Like I said... he's a smart guy. And remember: he was cautioned to cut the shit two months ago.
Like I said, it's taking every ounce of my being to keep from exploding onto the pages of this blog about how gross and disgusting this so-called election has become.
Back to my hole.
Pleasemakeitstopitshurtingmysoul.
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