Comments on: CNN Blows It http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/04/12/cnn-blows-it/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:03:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mgs http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/04/12/cnn-blows-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2484 mgs Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:04:08 +0000 http://www.racismreview.com/blog/?p=235#comment-2484 I put the link out there with a vague idea that the stories were connected, but I hadn't fully made the connection. The ESPN article discusses reader response to race issues and the difference in response if the race issue is presented as current or historical. The ESPN-reading public, or atleast the most vocal, love racial stories which present racism as some problem from the past, but turn outraged as soon as racism is presented as a current issue to be addressed. This might go some way to explaining the CNN piece. They are just supplying what their most vocal constituency demands: nonsense. I put the link out there with a vague idea that the stories were connected, but I hadn’t fully made the connection. The ESPN article discusses reader response to race issues and the difference in response if the race issue is presented as current or historical. The ESPN-reading public, or atleast the most vocal, love racial stories which present racism as some problem from the past, but turn outraged as soon as racism is presented as a current issue to be addressed. This might go some way to explaining the CNN piece. They are just supplying what their most vocal constituency demands: nonsense.

]]> By: Jessie http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/04/12/cnn-blows-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2483 Jessie Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:41:58 +0000 http://www.racismreview.com/blog/?p=235#comment-2483 I don't know the answer to your question, Pitseleh - perhaps Joe can answer it. Thanks for the topic suggestion and the documentary suggestion, mgs. I'll add the documentary to the video list. I'm not a huge sports-follower so I may not be the best one to write a response piece on that, but maybe one of my fellow bloggers here will take it up. I don’t know the answer to your question, Pitseleh – perhaps Joe can answer it.

Thanks for the topic suggestion and the documentary suggestion, mgs. I’ll add the documentary to the video list. I’m not a huge sports-follower so I may not be the best one to write a response piece on that, but maybe one of my fellow bloggers here will take it up.

]]> By: mgs http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/04/12/cnn-blows-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2482 mgs Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:33:33 +0000 http://www.racismreview.com/blog/?p=235#comment-2482 Good post. I'm not surprised by CNN running that kind of nonsense. BTW, I don't see any other forum for suggesting topics so here it goes: check out this article at ESPN for a thoughtful discussion of racial prejudice in basketball: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=schreiber_leanne&id=3345832 I also highly recommend the "Black Magic" series discussed in the article. Good post. I’m not surprised by CNN running that kind of nonsense. BTW, I don’t see any other forum for suggesting topics so here it goes: check out this article at ESPN for a thoughtful discussion of racial prejudice in basketball:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=schreiber_leanne&id=3345832

I also highly recommend the “Black Magic” series discussed in the article.

]]> By: Pitseleh http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/04/12/cnn-blows-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2464 Pitseleh Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:44:53 +0000 http://www.racismreview.com/blog/?p=235#comment-2464 Yes. I'm wondering, though, if there is a researcher that talks about this as an ideology? Something I can draw on when I write up results? Yes. I’m wondering, though, if there is a researcher that talks about this as an ideology? Something I can draw on when I write up results?

]]> By: GDAWG http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/04/12/cnn-blows-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2456 GDAWG Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:31:28 +0000 http://www.racismreview.com/blog/?p=235#comment-2456 To answer your question Joe,: Yes. He, Holmes, does get a measure of privilege for parroting his moronic observations and line of questions to these students. Its the price of the ticket. It's consistently practiced, it seems, in many aspects of the media IMHO. To answer your question Joe,: Yes. He, Holmes, does get a measure of privilege for parroting his moronic observations and line of questions to these students. Its the price of the ticket. It’s consistently practiced, it seems, in many aspects of the media IMHO.

]]> By: Joe http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/04/12/cnn-blows-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2453 Joe Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:01:24 +0000 http://www.racismreview.com/blog/?p=235#comment-2453 Yes, that is a misguided theory. It does not take parents for Black students to know about racial oppression. Whites impose it whatever your parents teach. Once they spend much time in white worlds, like historically white college campuses, they get huge doses of it. Ninety percent of the many Black students I have taught and am now teaching report facing great pain from racism virtually every day of their lives. They do not get that knowledge from parents, mostly, but from life experience. One very sad feature of this CNN report is his lack of knowledge of the substantial literature on Black college students, some of which has been presented on this site. Has he been conned by the privileges he gets in the white world to parrot the white racial frame? Yes, that is a misguided theory. It does not take parents for Black students to know about racial oppression. Whites impose it whatever your parents teach.

Once they spend much time in white worlds, like historically white college campuses, they get huge doses of it. Ninety percent of the many Black students I have taught and am now teaching report facing great pain from racism virtually every day of their lives. They do not get that knowledge from parents, mostly, but from life experience.

One very sad feature of this CNN report is his lack of knowledge of the substantial literature on Black college students, some of which has been presented on this site. Has he been conned by the privileges he gets in the white world to parrot the white racial frame?

]]> By: Pitseleh http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/04/12/cnn-blows-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2449 Pitseleh Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:29:29 +0000 http://www.racismreview.com/blog/?p=235#comment-2449 Is there a theory that discusses the idea that individuals are simply a recipient of their parent's ideas of racism? Not that this is true, but that it is an ideology of racism or colorblindness? This is very interesting to me as I ran across this same idea--black children as the victims of the racial beliefs of their parents--while doing research in the presentation of race in newspapers. Thank you. Is there a theory that discusses the idea that individuals are simply a recipient of their parent’s ideas of racism? Not that this is true, but that it is an ideology of racism or colorblindness? This is very interesting to me as I ran across this same idea–black children as the victims of the racial beliefs of their parents–while doing research in the presentation of race in newspapers.
Thank you.

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