Tarah Martin Bridge 115; Sharpe Seminar Paper on Race February 18th, 2009

Seminar Paper on Race

Over thousands of years of history being created, the media began to frame those of different races as bad people. History began to shape the media, which continued to shape the way white people look down upon other races. Allan G. Johnson states on page two, paragraph two that, history clearly shows that race has never been about skin color or for that matter, the logical description of reality. Over time the little facts that history, began to create the theory that race is the color of some ones skin. Johnson also says on page two, paragraph four that from the beginning, the concept of race has served as a social device for creating the illusion of fundamentally different types of human beings, which is precisely how whites have been encouraged to view themselves and people of color in the United States for hundreds of years. History began to form the picture that white people only mattered in the United States, causing the media to form the views of how colored people should be looked down upon and treated differently than whites. Michael Eric Dyson says in Frames of Reference, page 124 paragraph two, such a framework, one that weaves white innocence and black guilt into the fabric of cultural myths and racial narratives, is deeply embedded in society and affects every major American institution, including the media. History and myths over time has lead

to the media taking little information, turning it around making colored people the criminals and white people the innocent ones. The media has caused people to view the facts as truth, rather than false information given. In the movie Crash, where Sandra Bullock is complaining to her husband that the locksmith is going to sell the keys to someone on the streets, it shows that people have come to believe that people who arent white are criminals. The media le aves out the facts of white people committing crimes, which causes people to view other races as the criminals in the society. These sources show that history has shaped different views of the media. The medias framework is what causes the shaping of the society and government, to view people of color as the cause of all violence, rather than viewing all races as the cause of the problem.