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The everyday musings of a St. Louis based Erotic Writer and Sex work advocate!

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    Being Black in America (CNN Presents)

    I'm going to step away from my normal writings about kink related stuff, and delve into this program that I watched last night with my folks on CNN called "Being Black in America".  Before I even sat down and watched this program, I already knew how blacks were going to be portrayed in it.  To CNN, being black in America means Struggling, down and out, despair, poverty stricken, uneducated, crime infested, unhealthy, unmotivated, and blah... blah...blah. 
     
    Why in heavens name would I think that CNN would shed some light on the majority of the working class blacks that actually live in this country, instead of constantly showing the underachievers, knuckle draggers, struggling lower class, and crime infested ghettos.

     

    Contrary to popular belief, not all blacks are poor, been to jail, and have substandard education.  I live in a black community for Christ sakes, so I'm trying to figure out why in the hell does the media constantly focus on a class of blacks who are actually not in the majority.  How come CNN failed to shed some light on the percentage of blacks that work in Corporate America, Health care Industries, Postal Industries, and Car Manufacturing?  How come CNN failed to talk about our faith and Church?  How come CNN failed to mention the number of growing black businesses?  How come CNN failed to mention the deterioration of inner city schools in order to support Faith Based Initiatives?

     

    I hate when the media makes us out to be these whinny little knuckle draggers standing in line waiting for "DA MAN" to give us a handout.  Blacks don't want handouts; they want opportunities, safe neighborhoods, good schools, low prices, good health care, more time, and higher wages, just like the rest of human civilization. 
     
    Then this utterly ridiculous black Harvard Professor comes  on CNN and says that blacks have a different genetic makeup from whites.  What the hell does that mean?  Is he implying that blacks are genetically predispositioned to fail?  Is he implying that blacks have the long lost "Looser Gene".  Oh for crying out loud!

     

    Maybe it's this country that makes blacks fall disproportionately behind whites.  In other countries, blacks excel in education if not economically.  Statistics show that a black child has a better chance at getting a good education in Turkey and Russia than in the US.

     

    I guess in the end, blacks have a long way to go before the image of them is changed in the mass media.  The CNN program was actually a step backwards for blacks as it perpetuates the negative stereotype about us.  But hey, I'm just a Canadian black chick living in America, so what the hell do I know?
     
    Erika

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