The Importance Of Racism In The Media

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Now, try to picture a world where you live in paranoia every day, being sure that everywhere you go and everything you do is being ascertained and judged. Try to picture yourself walking into a clothing store or a grocery store having someone watching every movement you make thinking that you are going to steal something, or even accuse you of having a bomb under your clothes. Try to picture yourself being mocked or left out just because you are ¨different¨. I am pretty sure no one likes to be left out. Then why do you judge? Why do you emphasize hate against others? And why do you discriminate others?

Everywhere you go and everywhere you look, you will always find someone who is different. However, many of us concentrate on the differences and not the similarities of

“Upbringing is the largest cause of racism”. Even if you allow yourself to get to know some of those people, these ideas will always be in the back of your mind.

Another reason as to how racism makes its way into our heads is through the almighty media. As the days pass, media becomes a major factor of our lives whether or not we want it to be, and it is also a major source of how racism can keep itself active. Already since the 70’s, the media has been giving us many racial labels, one of the largest supplies coming from crime showed with “Law and Order”, and “CSI”.
When dealing with different crimes, people of color are reflected in the demarcation of “them” and “us”. Whites are often represented as the “good guys”, or the strong, law obeying citizens. Meanwhile They often target people of color, sometimes without any sort of evidence at all. Writers and directors use racial stereotypes to make a more complex story with more