Saturday, April 25, 2009
Mainstream news: perpetuating stereotypes for the public
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Saw this posted in Womanist Musings and I was utterly appalled. This is a "news" story on how a Popeye's restaurant ran out of chicken one day, causing customers to be outraged. Do you see a pattern amongst the people who were interviewed? What a racist piece of crap this is.
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April 25, 2009 at 2:43 PM
It could be that that Popeye's is in a neighborhood where more African-Americans live. My white husband and I live in a "black neighborhood", so something like that newscast wouldn't be so unusual.
April 25, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Rochester, NY is about 48% white and 38% black. But you wouldn't know that from the newscast.
May 19, 2009 at 3:22 PM
Read the news site and change your pad.
http://www.13wham.com/content/blogs/story/Popeyes-Story-Sparks-Newsroom-Race-Debate/xFATXxpXwESdIXQLJx1Emg.cspx
May 19, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Period jokes. Haven't gotten those before.
Thank you for providing that link - it was interesting to see different takes on the story.
For the record, I wasn't on my period when I wrote this :)