Blog 3 3/27/12

We had Fireside chats earlier this week, and it brought up a multitude of different aspects of the Black struggles in America. I thought about all the different ones, from education to jobs. I found I feel that false media representation has the most detrimental effect on Blacks. They are born into a society that likes to mold. A society that splits people into cliques, racial groups, likes and dislikes. The media gives an assumption of what Blacks should be. They grow up expected to be that of My Wife and Kids, or even Meet the Browns. From great-grandparents to now, they are suffering from an expectation, and the media helps it continue. 

Black American children tend to suffer more from self identity then the average white person, due to the reason of not knowing what is considered 'normal' for a Black American. They are not able to be considered as another human being with a personality and feelings, they are considered a character, a puppet to the media assumptions. Until the media brings back positive roles like The Cosby Show and The Color of Friendship, Black children will be stuck in a constant cycle of a self identity crisis, and will not have the chance of growing into their own version of what they are, instead of the media version.