Media Matters for America

album 4:44 in June, there has been a galore of controversy and attention brought towards the topic of blackness in America. I chose to analyze the music video to the song in his album, “The Story of O.J.” This song adds a lot to the discourse of the representation of blackness in America. Specifically, this song advertises the endeavors black people have in being successful in America. This video aims to both challenge and reinforce the common belief that you cannot be successful and black in…

emails, messages to coworkers and communicate with the public. This is nothing new, people have been known to misuse grammar long before the use of smartphones and social media. The issue comes into play when the English language is misused in the workplace. Nowadays it’s easy to get trapped into the writing styles used in social media or texting because we spend a lot of time texting and tweeting, nevertheless, we must learn to turn it off when at work. Many can argue both sides of the issue,…

be the free, is this brutal. To get straight to the point, America urges the need to constantly be a part of violence that lowers us as a nation. In 2012, a group was created after the death of Trayvon Martin. Deaths happen all the time, but this particular death caused one of the most uprising movements today. The movement got even strong when two unnamed African Americans died. More people started following the movement.Black lives matter is an organization…

audience to turmoil. As matter of fact, The Daily Show made the public question why many cable news are so constricted and uncomfortable. Of course, The Daily Show’s influence is a more positive environment than the cable news. Therefore, I agree with Kakutani’s point that John Stewart deliver more clear-cut information…

The Black Lives Matter Movement Racism has been an ongoing issue in society since the biblical days and has spiked during certain periods of our history, such as the 60’s, and the present day with the black lives matter movement. The black lives matter movement has been a hot topic since it began in 2013 when three black natives created it as a political movement that was centered around black people. They created the movement in response to the dismissal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Since…

“Colorblindness” in America “We the people” has been the slogan of America for over two hundred years. We pride ourselves on the fact that we want to treat all people of any gender, background, age and race the same. America has come a long way in many areas like woman’s rights and racial equality. We want to think that everything is all fine and dandy when it comes to racism, but we still have a long way to go. According to the Color-Blind Privilege by Charles A. Gallagher, denying race as a…

Political correctness often manipulates the media into only projecting biased informations that conform with the standards of, mostly, the leftist ideology. A clear example of this phenomenon is the fat acceptance movement. Anti fat shaming today is often taken to extremes by politically correct social justice groups, often resulting in vandalism of advertisements that depict physically fit models and the pressure on media outlets to forcefully include overweight models. Vanessa Friedman…

discrimination against people of color in America. From the early 1700s, law enforcement created the slave patrol system where white policemen hunted down escaped slaves. The purpose, whether or not they had their freedom papers or not. During this time period, slavery was already the norm. Mostly in the south, the majority of all black…

speeches, and from social media post. Though Trump isn’t clinically diagnosed as a narcissist, his demeanor of self-love, selfishness, and lack of empathy says otherwise. Trump possesses the extraversion trait, due to his talkative, social, and dominant conversations, especially when debating on why he’ll be a better president than his opponents. The one trait that describes Trump and his followers are their gullibility trait, which Trump’s supporters displays on social media. It’s…

domestic labor campaigns. While the Black Lives Matter hashtag was created after Martin’s death, it did not gain national attention until 2014 with the death of unarmed, black, eighteen year old, Michael Brown…