Exploitation
I can't believe ABCNews went there with OJ Simpson
This is what passes as journalism on mainstream media. And they still have the temerity to question the integrity and bias of bloggers.
Have they no shame?
Submitted by liza on 10 December 2007 - 11:58am.
Crime | Exploitation | Journalism | Parody | Racism | ABC News | OJ Simpson |
Crime | Exploitation | Journalism | Parody | Racism | ABC News | OJ Simpson |
A brief history of the "nappy headed ho", brought to us by BlackProf.com
Image found at Jim Crow Museum
of Racist Memoribilia :
Jezebel Stereotype
The power of slaveholders to exploit, expose, and control the sexuality of black women was overwhelming. Slaveholders could keep black women and their children in a state of near-nakedness while asserting that modesty and civility required full clothing. They could and did encourage frequent slave pregnancies through a variety of punishments and rewards. They then interpreted black women’s evident fertility as evidence of their uncontrolled sexuality.
The insatiable, sexual black woman did important work for Southern society. The myth of Jezebel created space for white moral superiority. Because she was a seductress, Jezebel justified the sexual brutality of Southern white men. Jezebel not only protected white men’s morality, so assured the purity of white women by offering a sexual alternative to white prostitution.
The point here is that Jezebel is more than a demeaning and false stereotype of black women [...] Jezebel is a deliberate characterization that does a specific service in the context American politics and society.
Blackness | Exploitation | Mysogyny | Myths | Prostitution | Racism | sexuality | slavery | Stereotypes
Should we boycott Don Imus and the media conglomerate he represents?
It's not shocking to see how the corporate masters of people like Ann Coulter and Don Imus to insist in selling them as valuable assets. They prop up and pay bigots because they represent millions of dollars. Hate is the road most travelled.
Hate is easy to exploit, it's an emotion that replicates faster than love thanks to the addictive qualities of adrenaline. Capitalism is based on the mining of adrenaline through the celebration of hate, the use of addictive substances in food, the exploitation of fear.
The big companies behind the likes of Rush Limbaugh will make sure their well-oiled money machines keep on raking in the benjamins. What is shocking to this cynic heart is to see how civil rights advocates fall for the money crap when it comes to gauging the worthiness of a cause.
It's still astounding to me to hear and read people on the left rationalize keeping racists and mysogynists by the measure of money they generate or popularity they have. More than once I've seen people on TV or read emails of people who said "why bother" when it comes to calling for Imus' oust.
And you know this is not just on big media outlets --FireDogLake is the perfect example of the racist pox on the lefty blogosphere being defended by many because of their popularity and for the amount of money they've raised for democrats.
Sigh.
Don Imus' money machine should be unplugged in much the same way Ann Coulter's and Rush Limbaugh's. Here's what Chris Rabb has to say about that :
Bigotry | Exploitation | Media | New Media | Racism | Radio | Don Imus | Microsoft | MSNBC | NBC | Procter and Gamble | Staples Inc
