A while ago I was watching a talk show and the subject was interracial relationships. At one point, the conversation came to people who claimed to be pure white or pure Black. The host claimed that no one was of pure ethnicity because there had been too much race mixing in the past. This brought the conversation to how white slave "masters" raped their Black female slaves. The white female host made the implication that the only reason the white men raped Black women is because their wives refused to give them as much sex as they wanted.
This is insulting because it implies that the white men didn't find the Black women attractive and only wanted them because they couldn't get what they really wanted. The truth is, in that time period, women had no more rights than Black people. If a white man wanted to rape a white woman, it would have been just as easy as raping a Black woman. In fact, the only reason a white man had to rape a Black woman is because that is what he preferred.
Black people get insulted every day in media, whether is be on television, radio, newspapers, or the Internet. There are entire web sites devoted to the degradation of people of African descent, not to mention TV and radio programs. The fact is evident in the examples provided by news stations covering the Mike Tyson and O. J. Simpson trials. Both people were talked about as convicted criminals before their trials ever started. Only messages that supported those beliefs were broadcasted.
The producers of the media do not concern themselves with evidence or lack thereof, because they only have one goal: to fulfill the need of white America to believe that nonwhite people are worse than them. White Americans feel shame for the wickedness their people perpetuated and cannot rest until they justify their own wickedness by convincing themselves that the people they mistreated deserve to be mistreated. This is what they want to believe so this is what their news media delivers to them, and they believe it without question as to the accuracy of the reports. It is past time that white people stopped twisting the truth to make themselves feel good about the things they've done.
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