Second Section of Larson

Diving right on into content here, as someone who grew up in a relatively small town that was close to Houston, being exposed to racist discourse, especially in the news, was no new thing. Growing up around people that had a "small town" mindedness have a tendency to believe that the news, like Biblical parables, is law. It's like historical movies, while there may be some similarities between the film and the truth, there is likely going to be some gaping hole in the story.

Racist news rears its ugly head often in Houston. Whites are often framed as victims or saviors, and tend to comprise most of the news staff. If a staff member happens to not be white, they are often "white washed". Consider anchorman Isiah Carey, whom I believe is an anchor for FOX in Houston; a few years ago a  video was released of Carey conducting a field newscast when a bug flew into his mouth. As he reacted to it, his "real" voice came out... which there happened to be nothing wrong with.   He was criticized for going from "zero to ghetto" in a matter of seconds. While that's another entire racist issue altogether, it's a shame that anyone that doesn't "sound white" should be expected to change their voice to fit better in a news setting.

Additionally, I can speak form experience that blacks and latin@s are often depcited as evil, lazy, dangerous, easy, etc in the news. When war on drugs, crimes against police, or welfare stories are done, the first pictures shown tends to be that of minorities, but back in the newsroom where the "successful" people are, it's nothing but white.

I'll be the first to admit that all I know of Native Americans comes from a class that I took here at TXST with Dr. Cohen. I certainly received no legitimate information from my public school experience nor from the news. If left to the media, all we'd know about them is of gambling and alcohol problems...as if those aren't concerns with every race. The same goes with Asian groups; according to the media, all the Asian people are capable of doing is driving poorly and stealing our jobs, or being adopted, of course. It's very offensive and tasteless and honestly makes us as Americans look ignorant and careless. What's even worse is that so many people, and not just those in my hometown  consider the news to be concrete and factual. Racist ideologies are being spread every night at 5, 6, and 10.