The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
    mageduley's picture

    We are not as divided as our MSM suggests

    It is interesting to note the MSM insists on slicing and dicing us into racial groups. While our constitution says everyone is equal, it seems the boomer generation's reporting keeps pushing the racial/gender meme. I don't mean they are degrading one race/gender or another, but by merely reporting it broken down that way, only exaggerates the lines drawn from the past.

    Think about it. As far as race and gender are concerned, you cannot use the "n" word on tv, but you can say how many black folks voted vs white. You cant imply a woman needed a man to get where she is, but yet they can report how many feminist women are behind a certain candidate. We have rejected the former arguments, but still accept the latter.

    It is the reporting by the older generation that have experienced these real divides in the past that perpetuates these artificial divides into the future.

    So truthfully, we need to get away from the reporting on which group is voting for what. We really are not as divided as the MSM suggests. The walls need to be broken or else it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

    If you look, you can see the walls tumbling down around you. The younger generation is especially gender/colorblind. There are women/ethnic CEO's, doctors, lawyers, and just about every business you can think of, and they keep growing. When we'll we be at a point when we can drop the subject? When it is 50/50 across the board?
    We will never get there if we allow ourselves to be continually be sliced and diced along gender/racial lines. Even in elections.

    People may think it is newsworthy to report these. News outlets may think it is important to project a certain outcome. But does the need to project outweight the need to overcome our predjucies?
    Every vote is counted equally, so just as we reject deragatory stereotypes of race and gender, so too we must reject election coverage that breaks us down this way.

    Just as we want to change the mindset of what lead us to war, so too we must change the mindset that insists on supporting those crumbling walls that separate us.