Posted on Jun 5, 2016
Why are the stories about race relations always negative? Why don't we speak about the positive stories?
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That's easy; 1. Bad News sells, and get ratings. Networks are a money making business so that is an easy thing to do. 2. Others don't want to change. It's easier to point a finger and blame someone else, but you cannot take a second to see that you're part of the problem? 3. Everyone wants a label. Can't be cool without a label. But when the label given is counter to what you thought you wanted, then we have a problem. Note that 99% of the cops are good men and women. The SECOND one screws up, the entire industry is a bunch of racist and bigoted people with no one to hold them accountable. The news plays on fear. Make it as dramatic as possible. "Johhny broke his toe playing ball". When the news gets it Johnny Jones of whatever ghetto you want, was running from the police, and while he was running, the cops found that he had a weapon on him. The police then attempted to bring Mr. Jones down with a hail of bullets and in the process of shooting, they shot 3500 rounds of .50 cal ammunition, Johnny fell and broke his toe. None of the expended ammo hit Mr. Jones. That is what lamestream media does to folks. Make it as big and bad as it possibly could be.
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SSG Warren Swan
SSG Pete Fleming - when it comes to money and journalistic integrity, we loose every time. If you control the airwaves and you control the content, you control the sheep. Just so happens that 80% of America are those sheep.
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SSG Pete Fleming
SSG Warren Swan - You know it is sad that this is so true! But why I said it is sad, not because people blindly believe what they are shown/told. No, but because the means to research and find the truth is right at your fingertips. You can have a different opinion, but it should be based on facts. Perhaps your interpretation of those facts differ from mine but based on facts. People don't research.
If I started a movement that the sky has glass particles and that is why the sun reflects light and I were able to go some followers, and then just one was able to produce 'facts', people would begin to join the movement. If I were then to get a famous person to endorse the theory it would then become real. If others were to deny my claim, my theory would then become fact... with hardly anyone doing research themselves.
"bah! bah! bah!"
If I started a movement that the sky has glass particles and that is why the sun reflects light and I were able to go some followers, and then just one was able to produce 'facts', people would begin to join the movement. If I were then to get a famous person to endorse the theory it would then become real. If others were to deny my claim, my theory would then become fact... with hardly anyone doing research themselves.
"bah! bah! bah!"
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One of my favorite stories occurred about 100 years ago in Nebraska. A black fellows wife died and he was on hard times with a family to raise. He borrowed $5.00 from a local lawyer and judge. A few years later he went to pay the loan back. His benefactor had died. So he looked up the man's heirs. That had now idea what the loan was about and told him to forget. The Black fellow insisted he pay. The paper work was found and the debt paid. How many people have that muc integrity?
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This was awesome...another life lesson from the greatest generation...This made my day. This older man will never know how much him helping a total stranger will mean. That young man may get a job and it might be the starting point he needs to jump start a fantastic career. The older man probably didn't think anything about it. The good thing is that it just reinvigorates the heart of humanity in all of us. Thanks for sharing. I wish this would make the news but unfortunately it won't sell...the only way this would sell if it was spun that the older man was choking the younger man...then it would be over every network out there.
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You have good answers from other posters -- I just wanted to thank you for posting. What a neat story that we can all take something away from.
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Dog bites man is not news. Man bites dog is. Well, that was the once practiced wisdom in journalism. But journalism is dead and its wisdom has been replaced by the "narrative". All the news fit to print now only includes that which fits the narrative. Anything that does not further the narrative of the Left will be suppressed. Fortunately, we don't need the Fourth Estate anymore. We are now a nation of citizen journalist, almost each and everyone carrying a smart phone connected to the Internet.
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SSG Pete Fleming
So true, I do agree but as others said the negative news sells, look at Facebook I would like to know the rate of good post verses negative.
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CPT Jack Durish
SSG Pete Fleming - That is a very interesting question. I know that my wife and I always stop to look at the "tear-jerkers" and stories of kindness, and then share them
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Respect! But you wont hear about acts of kindness like this in social media. People hate love, and love hate...Need more of this!
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SSG Pete Fleming
I agree... We are all Americans, lets drop the silly false labels and pull together. Thanks for the reply
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"If it bleeds, it leads."
That said, generally speaking, people aren't as progressive as we'd like to think (hope) they are once we get out into the wilds. African-American dude in Uptown Manhattan trying to get taxi after dark? Good luck. And I hope you're wearing comfortable shoes. Same dude, trying to get gas at a rural gas station in rural Tennessee, there's a good chance nothing will happen. And a small chance that something will. FWIW, I avoid both.
The so-called "Post-Racial" society is mostly just a hypersensitized society with a 12-hour news cycle that is driven almost entirely by the pursuit of advertising dollars.
Meanwhile, for the most part, people get along just fine as small groups and individuals. It's the pack we've got to worry about.
That said, generally speaking, people aren't as progressive as we'd like to think (hope) they are once we get out into the wilds. African-American dude in Uptown Manhattan trying to get taxi after dark? Good luck. And I hope you're wearing comfortable shoes. Same dude, trying to get gas at a rural gas station in rural Tennessee, there's a good chance nothing will happen. And a small chance that something will. FWIW, I avoid both.
The so-called "Post-Racial" society is mostly just a hypersensitized society with a 12-hour news cycle that is driven almost entirely by the pursuit of advertising dollars.
Meanwhile, for the most part, people get along just fine as small groups and individuals. It's the pack we've got to worry about.
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SSG Pete Fleming
SFC Marcus Belt, great comment. I think you summed it up... one question, I am not so naïve to think problems don't exist (it's human nature), but how much is real verses imagined verses prompted and fueled by the negative news stories, and the people need to identify 'problems' (and point fingers)?
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SFC Marcus Belt
SSG Pete Fleming - Brother Pete! Man, speaking as a middle-class, middle-aged (how the HELL did that happen) citizen, taxpayer and voter: most of the systems in my community work FOR me, rather than against me. I call the cops, they show up, call me sir and go looking for my stolen goods. I call animal control, they show up, call me sir, and go deal with the raccoon in my garage. Most of the people I associate with are of about the same Socioeconomic status (SES), and we generally get along just fine.
I honestly believe that to some extent, while racism may not be genetically influenced, the tendency to group ourselves and others we perceive to be "like us", and to simultaneously group those who are dissimilar into "them".
The older gentleman in the video probably saw some elements of himself, younger, trying to get a job, trying to find or make a place for himself in a sometimes hostile world, in that young black gentleman, and decided to help. I'm guessing, but I don't think I'm far off.
So really, to me, it seems that how we, collectively define who is "us" and who are "them", is the reason why we have the race issues that we have. And while I didn't live through the 60s, I can say that the 90s weren't especially peaceful from the race-relations standpoint.
Fascinatingly, that was also the last time we had a 2 term Democratic President....
I honestly believe that to some extent, while racism may not be genetically influenced, the tendency to group ourselves and others we perceive to be "like us", and to simultaneously group those who are dissimilar into "them".
The older gentleman in the video probably saw some elements of himself, younger, trying to get a job, trying to find or make a place for himself in a sometimes hostile world, in that young black gentleman, and decided to help. I'm guessing, but I don't think I'm far off.
So really, to me, it seems that how we, collectively define who is "us" and who are "them", is the reason why we have the race issues that we have. And while I didn't live through the 60s, I can say that the 90s weren't especially peaceful from the race-relations standpoint.
Fascinatingly, that was also the last time we had a 2 term Democratic President....
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