Black Lives Matter In The Media

Breaking news, “In recent events, a white male was seen outside making obvious gestures towards a black male.” This is one of the many ways the media shows its interest in certain events. By inserting a person’s race, more individuals will be agitated and think negatively towards a group or groups of people depending on their view of the subject. It does not stop there, however. The media, also, makes it apparent to create arguments and controversy over other topics that include, but not limited to, gender, race, and birth control. A huge problem is sprouted from this subject, and this pushes Americans and others to create a divide between people of different race, gender, or beliefs. If this behavior continues, more and more problems will …show more content…
Groups such as Black Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, or the recent feminist movements, many participants think they are doing it for a good reason, and some have no idea why they are doing it, they just want to be a part of it. Black Lives Matter movement consists of many people whom think they are fixing the white-on-black crimes and fighting for equal black and white rights, but how does violence or rioting fix anything? Upwards of one thousand riots and protest have broken out in the assimilation of Black Lives Matter (Kline). How does all this begin with the media? Every time an altercation was had between a black male and white male, and the black male was killed, more crimes would be stirred up as a result. For instance, In the state of Minnesota, during a Black Lives Matter movement, protesters attacked police using various items including bottles and rocks. This attack injured twenty-one people and an officer suffered a broken vertebra due to a cinderblock being dropped on his head (Fench). Also, around the same time this attack happened, another one occurred in Missouri, as a black male shot a white officer in the neck after a traffic stop. These crimes all sprout from the news and media inserting race in the news …show more content…
Start at the source of the problem and expand the reach from there. If the media stopped using race in the title of breaking news headlines or videos, less controversy would develop. The media needs to, also, show entire situations as they escalate to the severity at which it becomes controversial, instead of beginning at the point of controversy when it is shown to viewers. Looking at the statistics for white on black crimes that result from the media: on average, more whites are killed by blacks, blacks are killed by blacks, and whites are killed by whites (Cella and Neuhauser). Blacks killed by whites has the lowest average of all four categories, so the need to bring about movements and create other problems is unnecessary. People need to understand what is right and wrong as well. For example, as seen many times, people get riled up when a white officer is being recorded and taking down a black male, but what people fail to understand is the police officer is doing his job. The officer has asked many times in the video for the individual to get on the ground, or ask for identification, and that individual refuses to do so, which is failure to obey, so the officer will escalate the situation to get it taken care of. Stopping media racial profiling will decrease violent acts such as riots and killings. A few examples of riots that broke out in the recent years are; the Ferguson, Missouri riots, which totaled