Let’s acknowledge at the outset that corporate liberal media—owned and sponsored by the mightiest economic forces in our society—have increased their talk about race and racism in recent years, especially since the rise of Trump.
They’ve even learned to throw around the phrase “systemic racism”—while avoiding scrutiny of the corporate systems that propel and reinforce racism.
The view of the world projected by such coverage is typically that of victims without victimizers. Although it’s acknowledged that Black people and other people of color are consistently at the bottom of the caste system, there’s no examination of the powerful interests that put them there—the profiteers who, for so many generations, have had their knees on the necks of poor people of color.
Enter killer-in-uniform Derek Chauvin.
Let me be clear that I’m heartened by the media coverage of George Floyd’s murder, and even more heartened by the mass protests that erupted in the wake of that
— source commondreams.org | Jeff Cohen | Apr 26, 2021