Does Your Vote Count?

Sean Bell, Amadu Dialo, Abna Luima, Rodney King, These are just four out of many other victims that have been beaten by cops, often victims of police brutality are people who aren’t Caucasian, African Americans are not the only victims of police brutality young Hispanic/ Latin males as well as females are also victims of being targets so are Asian Americans, and the list goes on.

Alfred Lockwood

Before I begin, I would like to start off with a story that my journalism professor told the class.

One day a thief noticed a guy leaving his house and so he decided to climb up a tree and enter the house through the second floor window. The thief ended up falling from the ledge and crashing down to the ground, breaking his legs.

A few days later the owner of the house received a letter stating that he was to appear in court so that he could be put on trial and lynched because of the injury to the thief.

Alfred Lockwood
How does reality TV portray Race?

When thinking about reality TV shows such as The Real World, where the saying is “where people stop being nice and start being real” is the slogan used, other shows such as Road Rules, Big Brother, or more up to date shows like I Love New York, The Flavor of Love, Flavor of Love charm school, The Batchelor, The Batchelorete or the 2005 VH-1 hit Being Bobby Brown comes to mind. What’s the point of all of these shows being on TV? Well one is to entertain you of course that’s the main reason but the other is to supposedly show you the reality of things, because the only real way to find love is to go on TV and give the one you love a red rose or perhaps a large cartoon sized clock right? At least that’s what these shows want you to believe.