If you watch the news, you can’t help but notice that race relations in America are in bad shape. Of course, usually the news only focuses on the most extreme opinions from all sides. Here are some refreshing exceptions.
The constant barrage of media coverage on race in America does little to get to the heart of the problem.
But Fox 2 Detroit’s Charlie LeDuff offers a little insight with this recent dispatch from Milwaukee. The video is a refreshing departure from the coverage we’ve all become accustomed to on matters of race in the U.S.
Next up, is the remarkably honest man who called C-Span’s Washington Journal last week.
The show that day featured guest Heather McGhee who heads up the progressive think tank Demos Action.
The caller, Gary, said: “I’m a white male, and I am prejudiced. The reason it is is something I wasn’t taught but it’s kind of something that I learned.
“When I open up the papers, I get very discouraged at what young black males are doing to each other, and the crime rate.
“I understand that they live in an environment with a lot of drugs ― you have to get money for drugs ― and it is a deep issue that goes beyond that, but when, I have these different fears, and I don’t want my fears to come true.”
Gary added that he doesn’t like to “be forced to like people.”
“I like to be led to like people through example,” he said, before asking, “What can I do to change? You know, to be a better American?”
McGhee’s response couldn’t have been better, from noting that “people of all races and ethnicities and backgrounds” have certain prejudices to suggesting that Americans watch less of mainstream media’s coverage on race.
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