Oy The Media: from a Two Dotter

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I don't expect most people to distrust the media.  It took me the experience of two dots before I started to suspect anything.

My two dots were the fact that my family hails from Haiti. The other dot is that I am Jewish.  With the former, everytime I went to Haiti, I fell in love with the people. The colors. etc. Whenever I came back to America I had to block out the manner in which USA wasp media spoke of Haiti. Its poverty was always stressed, not as a call to do something about it, but as a permanent status- as a zing or a sting. I didn't detect any love for Haiti. In fact, quite the opposite if you know the history.  The latter, being Jewish I began to see Jews and Israel with my own eyes. And while there are problems, the way things are slanted in the media leaves my head reeling. But most people do not have the two dots to connect. Most have one dot --or one worldly "strike" against them: For example, a Black male-- the "black" may be something American wasp would try to hurt; whereas his maleness receives a hat tip.  Another example, a female politician. Her "femaleness" may cause her flack in America, whereas the fact that she has a normal job as a politician earns her approval.  And so some go on believing whatever the media says while dealing with their own personal self esteem wounds.

For those two-dot connector folks, like say Black  women, I only hope they connect the dots and then see where the line is going.

Now the media is attacking everyone indiscriminately. It seems to have an agenda. This is quite interesting for me to watch because i often wondered how would the dominant group, the whites protestant anglo-saxons in America, deal with a taste of their own medicine? Now the media is not going after the underdogs, they are going after anyone that do not fit their agenda.  Now, interesting videos such as these are out!




and this one!


(hat tip =Vlad Tepes blog)

Now its getting interesting. A real group effort; one idea against another idea -barring skin color, race, religion. This is a spiritual battle. The media is not necessarily all white anymore. its all "an agenda". And those fighting against it are the two dot (or more) connector activists and the newly attacked whites in America. I guess we can thank Muslim terrorism for this one. It rose the world to a new plane. Now what's the strategy to win?

(Come to think of it, I guess I'm more of a three dotter! Black, Jewish and woman).

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Some Worthwhile Reads

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Symphony, over at Essential Presence said this perfectly. She has a post about keeping the "angry black woman" -ness in check.

Gina McCauley, from What About Our Daughters, published an article on in the Guardian about Michelle Obama's media makeover.


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