Fair Representation In The Media

The fifth circuit court has recently voted to halt Obama’s executive orders known as deferred action for parental accountability, DAPA, and deferred action for childhood arrival, DACA. The two orders would prevent deportation of immigrants whose children were born in the United States as well as children who had arrived in the United States before they were 16 and before June 2007. The issue will be taken up by the Supreme Court of the United States in 2016. The Supreme Court will decide whether or not 4.4 million immigrants will get deported. It is important not to deport immigrants because they create a more multiracial America, which helps to redraw and blur color lines in America. Becoming a more multi-racial society will also change …show more content…
Currently the media does not represent minorities as well as it should. An example of this is HBO’s television series. Currently 32 of 42 of HBO’s main characters in their television shows are white; additionally 37 out of 42 of those television shows do not have an African American has a main character [4]. Also Blacks and Latinos are often overrepresented as criminals on the news [5]. Fair media representation is changing and minority groups are also demanding fair representation in the media. Latino advocates have begun to demand fair representation in the media. The advocates stated the media paint the picture that the Latino community only cares about immigration, when in fact other issues such as health care and job availability are important to the Latino community as well. Maria Kumar, a prominent Latino advocate, stated that an equally represented media is not only good for minority groups, but also good for the entire country because news stories will be covered from more perspectives [6]. With minority groups speaking out, it is only a matter of time before some media source begins to meet the demands of those groups. As the multiracial demographic begins to grow in America so will fair media representation. With fair media representation the racial/ethnic color lines will begin to blur. The lines will blur because fair representation in the media helps to remove the stereotypes of certain minority groups and it may help divided low income groups see each other as equals. If immigrants were to be deported there would not be as much pressure on the media to have diversity in the news coverage and television shows. The deportation of immigrants would thus slow or halt the blurring of color