Given the established press criminalization and generalizing of African American women and men, we now live in a culture where disdain wrongdoings and worthy segregation among minorities have gotten ordinary. The report shows that U.S. grown-ups spend more than ten and a half hours of the day burning through media (Georgiou, 2020). From a cultural pluralist’s perspective that long haul media openness makes individuals become more inundated in a battle to recognize media from the real world.
As an African American woman, I have witnessed many racist scenes both in reality and media. One of the earliest exposures to the cinematographic films which portrayed culturally different people from me was when I was 21. This was a movie called The Birth of A Nation which supposedly tells ‘the American history.’ The white men who praised the Ku Klux Klan were shown as superior and intelligent. They were powerful, rich, and righteous, according to the plot. Throughout the film, African Americans are depicted as brutal, sluggish, ethically degenerate, and dangerous. In the film’s peak, the Ku Klux Klan ascends to save the South from the Reconstruction Era-conspicuousness of African Americans in Southern public life.
I could not understand the popularity of the film nor its spurious message. I had mixed feelings about it as I felt as I was being offended and mocked by my culture. I had an impression that the Klan and its followers were extremely selfish and aggressive towards other races. When minorities begin to populate regions encircled in whiteness, they are decided by their skin color dependent on assumptions and racial generalizations. The absence of exact and different portrayals in media affects how we see minorities and how we cooperate with them.
Reference
Georgiou, M. (2020). Racism, postracialism and why media matter.Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43(13), 2379–2385.