Media Stereotypes
For countless years, various religious and ethnic groups have been portrayed on television based on the popular and, many times, false stereotypes. “Stereotypes are general assumptions and popular ideas about a group of people which can often be exaggerated or unsound”, (unknown). Our older generations have grown up with their religion or ethnic group exposed in a light that may be very negative and insulting to their culture. Television over the years has changed the minds of its viewers and showing them the way that a certain group of people are being described, is the way they really are. Particular groups of people are though, shown in a particularly good light, but are becoming narrow-minded, and feelings of advantages …show more content…
For instance, the stereotype that are mostly used in the media nowadays such as, black people always have guns on them, are in gangs, having multiple affairs, or just has “Baby Mama” drama. The idea that white people are always rich, with big homes, and that most of them are scared of the black people, or their kids are always doing better than the black kids are a stereotype for white people. When these television shows are viewed by these young people, they are thinking of these certain groups, and might even classify them any time they see that certain group. For example, the television sitcom Good Times from the 1970s. Good Times features the Evans family, a typical black family of five living in a cramped two bedroom apartment. Mr. Evans, the father is, characterized as an unintelligent man because he as can hardly read and write and is forced to work at a low paying job. He is also pictured as a man who is jealous of his own wife because she is more easily employed than he is. But then again that’s every man. No man would want their wife to make more money than them. However, that was how it was portrayed and that certainly isn’t true for us black men. On the show, the apartment in which the Evans family live is roach infested and in disrepair; in other words, they live in the ghetto. Not all black people live in a house full of roaches, or in the ghetto. While writing this series, …show more content…
We have police officers killing black people just because their black. The excuses that are being used is that “Oh, I thought he had a gun!” or “He resisted his arrest!” or anything of that nature. That is quite unfair. As of July, we’ve had had 558 black people killed by police. Terrence Crutcher for one has been shot by police. The reason stated that the reason they shot him to death is because he did not follow instructions to put his hands in the air when the advised him to. As we might’ve already seen, there has been a video released showing Crutcher walking back towards his car with his hands up in the air. Still they shoot him. Will justice be properly served? No, because the officers were white, and he was black. “Race is a trigger for police brutality,” Jack Glaser. Another death due to police brutality is Alton Sterling. The officers were responding to a report of a man carrying a gun, threatening others and selling CDs in front of a convenient store. There has been a video released of him being detained on the floor, and another officer that shot him in the head. He was really close by! The video does not show Sterling going into his pockets or anything of that nature, neither did he have a gun on him. I believe that even if he had a gun on his, he has a right to do so as
For countless years, various religious and ethnic groups have been portrayed on television based on the popular and, many times, false stereotypes. “Stereotypes are general assumptions and popular ideas about a group of people which can often be exaggerated or unsound”, (unknown). Our older generations have grown up with their religion or ethnic group exposed in a light that may be very negative and insulting to their culture. Television over the years has changed the minds of its viewers and showing them the way that a certain group of people are being described, is the way they really are. Particular groups of people are though, shown in a particularly good light, but are becoming narrow-minded, and feelings of advantages …show more content…
For instance, the stereotype that are mostly used in the media nowadays such as, black people always have guns on them, are in gangs, having multiple affairs, or just has “Baby Mama” drama. The idea that white people are always rich, with big homes, and that most of them are scared of the black people, or their kids are always doing better than the black kids are a stereotype for white people. When these television shows are viewed by these young people, they are thinking of these certain groups, and might even classify them any time they see that certain group. For example, the television sitcom Good Times from the 1970s. Good Times features the Evans family, a typical black family of five living in a cramped two bedroom apartment. Mr. Evans, the father is, characterized as an unintelligent man because he as can hardly read and write and is forced to work at a low paying job. He is also pictured as a man who is jealous of his own wife because she is more easily employed than he is. But then again that’s every man. No man would want their wife to make more money than them. However, that was how it was portrayed and that certainly isn’t true for us black men. On the show, the apartment in which the Evans family live is roach infested and in disrepair; in other words, they live in the ghetto. Not all black people live in a house full of roaches, or in the ghetto. While writing this series, …show more content…
We have police officers killing black people just because their black. The excuses that are being used is that “Oh, I thought he had a gun!” or “He resisted his arrest!” or anything of that nature. That is quite unfair. As of July, we’ve had had 558 black people killed by police. Terrence Crutcher for one has been shot by police. The reason stated that the reason they shot him to death is because he did not follow instructions to put his hands in the air when the advised him to. As we might’ve already seen, there has been a video released showing Crutcher walking back towards his car with his hands up in the air. Still they shoot him. Will justice be properly served? No, because the officers were white, and he was black. “Race is a trigger for police brutality,” Jack Glaser. Another death due to police brutality is Alton Sterling. The officers were responding to a report of a man carrying a gun, threatening others and selling CDs in front of a convenient store. There has been a video released of him being detained on the floor, and another officer that shot him in the head. He was really close by! The video does not show Sterling going into his pockets or anything of that nature, neither did he have a gun on him. I believe that even if he had a gun on his, he has a right to do so as