African AMericans in the Media
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African Americans in the Media
As we have zoomed into the 21st century, you might assume that as a people we have conquered such trials like racism, but the hard reality is that racism still exists even though it may not be painted on signs in front of water fountains, restaurants, and voting ballots. I will be addressing the racism or rather stereotypes of African Americans through out the framework of the media. I will be covering two major issues of African Americans within the news media: African Americans in the media work force, and African Americans in the news coverage.
Before African Americans were "accepted" as journalists they were employed as "translators". What this meant was that they had to sit in the newsroom and when a story came in involving an African American, or the African American community, the translator would be there to interpret what this event meant to the African American community and why it was going on.
In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois said, "then, the white world, I have stepped within the veil, raising it that you may view faintly its deeper recessesthe passion of its human sorrow, and the struggle of its greater souls." As African Americans came into the work force in was painstakingly obvious the trial that they were to face; unequal opportunity of employment advancement, biased criticism of their work, and racism against their skin color...