HellRell804
Banned
I think this era of being "constantly connected" via social media, television, and 24/7 news has actually had the opposite effect of disconnecting us from reality.
I was having a friendly debate with a breh and he used the example of a school bully beating up a kid and taking his lunch money. Now this type of bullying doesn't exist anymore except on TV. Schools have been handing out assault charges for fighting since I was 12 years old. If a kid doesnt have lunch money, the school will cover it and send a bill to the parents. At that point the kid has to tell, if he tries to hide it his parents will get a call from CPS. Almost every school has a resource officer posted up. In fact, the face of bullying is now teenage girls engaging in psychological abuse.
Movies like The color purple, beloved, and modern Tyler Perry films have whole generation of women thinking men were all "Mister" style predators ready to beat and mistreat them at will. To the point where black men and women's relationships are almost irreparably damaged. I live in the south. While there were some stories like that but it wasn't the majority. Southern girls generally adore their fathers. "The ditch digger's daughters" a more realistic story about an old school, sometimes, hard southern black father doing whatever it took for his daughters to succeed in life, or the pursuit of happiness don't get the love they deserve.
The news also thrives on sensationalism. They constantly find and air the most damaging stories to the point where people believe in the myth of super predators and are afraid of their fellow men. Out of millions of black Americans the thousands who commit heinous crimes are branded as the face of black america.
In my 31 years on earth, I've never seen a gay man beat up for being gay. When I was younger I saw gay men get teased but that was the 90s. Its damn near a hate crime to do so now l. Besides, we're all just trying to live, people don't have time to form coalitions to oppress people based on what they choose to do in the privacy of their bedrooms. But shows like empire and other propaganda take the actions of a few and have people believing that their is an epidemic of oppression on gay men when, actually, gay black men are employed more and make more money than straight black men and women. Gay black men are represented on television way more than the percentage of the population dictates.
What are some other ways propaganda has shaped the black american experience.
I was having a friendly debate with a breh and he used the example of a school bully beating up a kid and taking his lunch money. Now this type of bullying doesn't exist anymore except on TV. Schools have been handing out assault charges for fighting since I was 12 years old. If a kid doesnt have lunch money, the school will cover it and send a bill to the parents. At that point the kid has to tell, if he tries to hide it his parents will get a call from CPS. Almost every school has a resource officer posted up. In fact, the face of bullying is now teenage girls engaging in psychological abuse.
Movies like The color purple, beloved, and modern Tyler Perry films have whole generation of women thinking men were all "Mister" style predators ready to beat and mistreat them at will. To the point where black men and women's relationships are almost irreparably damaged. I live in the south. While there were some stories like that but it wasn't the majority. Southern girls generally adore their fathers. "The ditch digger's daughters" a more realistic story about an old school, sometimes, hard southern black father doing whatever it took for his daughters to succeed in life, or the pursuit of happiness don't get the love they deserve.
The news also thrives on sensationalism. They constantly find and air the most damaging stories to the point where people believe in the myth of super predators and are afraid of their fellow men. Out of millions of black Americans the thousands who commit heinous crimes are branded as the face of black america.
In my 31 years on earth, I've never seen a gay man beat up for being gay. When I was younger I saw gay men get teased but that was the 90s. Its damn near a hate crime to do so now l. Besides, we're all just trying to live, people don't have time to form coalitions to oppress people based on what they choose to do in the privacy of their bedrooms. But shows like empire and other propaganda take the actions of a few and have people believing that their is an epidemic of oppression on gay men when, actually, gay black men are employed more and make more money than straight black men and women. Gay black men are represented on television way more than the percentage of the population dictates.
What are some other ways propaganda has shaped the black american experience.
