The desire to talk only about how wonderful things are helps explain elite media’s tendency to foreground the parts of I Have a Dream that celebrate the end of de jure segregation, but set aside King’s insistence that segregation’s end did not mean the end of grievous inequality.... Racism as part of an inglorious past, media can handle; racism in the present day, tangled up in issues from healthcare to housing to the effects of the recession—that they’d just as soon not confront. --Janine Jackson on media misuse of Martin Luther Kings legacy, from the October 2013 Extra!.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:22:08 +0000
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