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Your (article\show\book\magazine\other) is intended for (list ethnicity) so therefore it is (select perjorative).

# 37 – Not only can you read others minds to know their intentions you like # 42 can project racism into other peoples thoughts and actions. What an incredible gift.

What was his secret? He took them to church every week and it became a part of their life. They came to visit me after I moved back to New York and the first thing Sunday the kids asked where the Catholic church was so they could go to mass. They all had some space for themselves to be themselves. They all knew that they did their homework first before they went out to play. They all had chores to do and did them without asking. It was a real pleasure to visit them because the whole family made you welcome. The kids all wanted to show you their latest papers or the things they had made. The part that really sold me on them was that they were a family and they wanted to share what they had as a family. Even with all the kids Steve still found time to mentor a couple of druggies in the neighborhood and taught them how to use tools and how to fix things and how to track in the woods and how to fish. No drugs. It worked.

When I see the people who talk about how they were pushed down because of their race or something else, I always think it had to have been the way they were raised. If you demand respect and deserve respect from your kids, you will get it. If you don’t bother with them you will get that too. Your choice.

My suspicion is that the kind of people who don’t understand that you have to work at teaching your kids things, rather than just giving the cookies and the TV are also the kind of people who don’t realise that you need to work at relationships – they don’t just happen.

It’s all part of the same mindset.

I wasn’t disagreeing with your portrayal of minorities by the media, but I don’t believe it is as profit motivated as you suggest. Many members of the media and the corporate culture they live in truly believe that they know what is best for all of us…that they are so smart that only they can save minorities and everyone else from themselves. Therefore, they reject good ideas that come from other sources.

I think it is a shame that many media outlets only portray black and hispanic communities as being the only poor people in this country.

>>>I’ve read excerpts from Thomas Sowell’s book, and this is pretty much his point. City Journal might not talk about them, as white rednecks tend not to live in New York City and those who work at City Journal may not have grown up in “white trash” surroundings.”

It took me about 15 seconds to pull up statistics about the racial demographics of poor people in America from the internet. The information is readily available. The City Journal doesn’t “talk about” poor whites because it’s not in their agenda to.

–Cobra

By the way, it’s not just a matter of being poor (as one can see from poor immigrants who have worked their way up to success). It’s just that many of these attitudes are going to be more devastating to your life if you’re poor. Paris Hilton is white trash, but very very rich white trash. She can afford, in a material sense, poor morals. She doesn’t have to work, she doesn’t have to take care of kids. But if you’re poor, being an ignorant, coked-up whore is going to keep you poor.

>>>You point this out, but let us ask which side of the aisle the MSM claims itself to be. They say objective, but their self professed voting habits say otherwise.”

COSBY SHOW
http://www.thecobraslair.com/National%20Issues21.html

I believe that corporate media is concerned about PROFIT. If the formula for making the most profit reads “playing on the fears, stereotypes and anxieties of the largest population segment,” then that’s what the end result is going to be. When news is NOT considered a profit making entity, then all sides and facets of a particular story can be examined with no fear of losing attention spans. As long as the bottom line is increasing ratings/revenues/viewership/subscriptions, etc. the product will reflect an interest in such, not neccessarily an interest in truth or clarity.
Voting records of individual journalists wouldn’t be applicable to making money for the journal.

–Cobra

It is my contention that most of the intellectual elite (who vote Dem/Lib) in our nation has your described stereotype about minorities. Therefore, they believe that they are the only ones capable of enlightening the masses and saving minorities from their plight.

>>>The Manhattan Institute is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization. Contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. As Sponsor, you will receive selected publications and invitations to Manhattan Institute’s special events.”

The article comes from the City Journal, described here as:

“City Journal is the nation’s premier urban-policy magazine, “the Bible of the new urbanism,” as London’s Daily Telegraph puts it. During the Giuliani Administration, the magazine served as an idea factory as the then-mayor revivified New York City, quickly becoming, in the words of the New York Post, “the place where Rudy gets his ideas.” The Public Interest goes further, calling City Journal “the magazine that saved the city.”

But City Journal is a national, not just a local, force, with a readership that spans the U.S.—and an especially enthusiastic audience in the nation’s capital. The country’s most thoughtful journalists are among the quarterly magazine’s subscribers, as are top businessmen and financiers. City officials from coast to coast are loyal fans, and mayors from Milwaukee’s John Norquist to Oakland’s Jerry Brown happily acknowledge City Journal’s influence on their own thinking and policy. Newspapers across the land, from the Wall Street Journal to the San Diego Union-Tribune, regularly print adaptations of City Journal articles, disseminating the magazine’s influence to millions of readers.”
Subscription Rates

US $23.00 (1 yr) $42.00 (2 yrs) $60.00 (3 yrs)
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Foreign $31.00 (1 yr)

Copyright The Manhattan Institute.
http://city-journal.org/html/about_cj.html

There is no debate here. The City Journal is a product of the Manhattan Institute that is for sale via subscription, or reprint rights in various publications.

It also has NOTHING to do with my point, which was…
” Look at who the media is controlled by. You can NEVER rely on accuracy and truth from an institution which has a primary goal of attracting and retaining a 25-54 year old white audience demographic.”
My commentary on the Manhattan Institute stands alone in this context, since “media” is the “institution” referenced in the preceding sentence. It is certainly not an implication that the Manhattan Institute conrols all media.

Stephen writes:

>>>Put simply, this WAS a hatchet job. It served no valuable purpose. Bill Cosby told black people–”Dr. heal thyself”, this author simply told white people, “negroes are poor.”

There is a difference”

Amen, brother. The TRUTH is, according to a study of the Media at Yale:

>>>POOR PEOPLE
Shown in News Magazines 62% Black
Shown in Television News 65% Black
In Reality 29% Black

In a land where poverty is often taken as a sign of personal failure, the media’s exaggerated association of blacks and the poor cannot help but reinforce old stereotypes of African Americans as inadequate, unmotivated, and mired in poverty. The news media offers the public a portrait of poverty where blacks far outnumber nonblacks, while in reality fewer than three out of ten poor Americans are black.”
http://www.yale.edu/isps/journal/volume2/gilens.html

I highly doubt new subscriptions for the City Journal would rise significantly among the desired 25-54 white demographic if they wrote articles that reflected REALITY, and not stereotyping, scapegoating, minority-bashing propaganda.

–Cobra

First go read La Shawn Barber’s post on The Mission: Middle-Class vs. Lower-Class Families. Then go read James Taranto on…