Whitosphere

"White-News" vs. the Blackosphere

I have lived most of my life in a “white-news” media environment. In my experience, “white-news” can be defined as “daily facts mixed with propaganda prepared and controlled by whites for the purpose of maintaining white people’s unreasonably exalted self-image and their privileged status in American society and the world, while systematically depriving others of information that would help Blacks and others to improve their status or support their positive self-image.”

The existence of Black History Month is an official acknowledgement by white America that white-news has been so pervasive historically and remains so pervasive that Blacks and whites have systematically been deprived of positive information about Black people, so much so that only by focusing on Black people intensely for a month each year can we begin to undo the damage done by “white-news”. (Ironically, Black history month continues to be necessary precisely because white-news remains so pervasive.)

But now that we have blogs, to what extent have American blogs changed the white-news paradigm? In my experience, white blogs are just as committed to white-news as is the mainstream media. White blogs are mostly dedicated to exposing injustices that affect white people, for the purpose of empowering “progressive” white people to gain more control over society and make society more “progressive”.


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