8 Responses to “Informal Survey - Dallas Morning News portrays blacks as athletes, homeless, bank robbers, suspects”

1. SB Says:
   November 30th, 2007 at 1:55 pm

   This is the stupidest “survey” I’ve ever seen. Find something useful to do with your time.

2. J Says:
   November 30th, 2007 at 2:35 pm

   Your argument may be more persuasive were it not for your many typos and grammatical errors.
   Also, your seemingly arbitrary exchanging/interchaning of the terms Anglo and white, neither of which accurately portray many if not all of the people you labeled as such, for example labeling Tony Romo as Anglo is completely incorrect he is of Mexican/American and Polish/German descent, no English any where in there.
   Maybe you should get your facts together before attempting another attempt at the argument.

3. Rawimage Says:
   November 30th, 2007 at 3:17 pm

   Why is this such a surprise? I hope it’s not to anyone who has ever followed the News. True, they have done stories that highlighted the achievements of minorities. But their newspaper generally fails to recognize the positive contributions of minorities, many of whom are just living law-abiding lives. Any wonder why the News will be out of business in 10 years or so?

4. Scott Says:
   November 30th, 2007 at 3:57 pm

   Make this a weekly feature and I bet you’ll see some fast change at the paper.

   Good work.

5. Kevin Says:
   November 30th, 2007 at 5:26 pm

   What do the population percentages say? It’s not like we’re overrun with African-Americans around here. I would think there would be more Whites and Hispanics than anything, percentage-wise, which may explain the “bias” in reporting.

6. Linda Says:
   December 1st, 2007 at 1:51 pm

   I’m not surprised at any of your findings.. if you want to know what’s going on in the African American community and to read articles by African American writers pick up the Dallas Weekly. You’ll find balanced writing.
   As long as papers like the Dallas Morning News are out there you’ll forever get only negative reports about African Americans.. and Dallas says there’s no racial problem here… HA!

7. Francis L. Holland Says:
   December 11th, 2007 at 7:37 am

   The evidence shows over and over again that the only things whites are united in is their determination to put Blacks down. Look at global warming and whites are at each other’s throats. Look at abortion and they are bombing each other’s abortion clinics. Look at shopping and they are shooting each other in the shopping mall. Look at religion and they are shooting each other in the church sanctuary. Look at Iraq and they are wasting billions of dollars and can’t figure out who’s fault it is - “white man A” or “white man B”.

   As they destroy themselves bit by bit, hanging themselves with their own ropes, they can’t decide whether their catastrophe is caused too much immigration or not enough.

   It all comes down to dysfunctional white leadership that is unable to unite their color-group behind meaningful goals. And they cannot unite their color-group because whites themselves have lost the capacity to work in unison.

   When will America’s whites EVER get their act together and resolve some of the pressing problems that most threaten their survival?

8. Lakeith Amir-Sharif ("Sharif") Says:
   March 1st, 2008 at 4:10 pm

   Shawn, this is an interesting issue, and one of great importance to the black communities around the country. From my personal observation I’ve concluded that Dallas Morning news, like all the other big mass medias (i.e. FOX, CNN, MSNBC, TIME) have and continue to play a crucial role in the way the world perceive African-Americans and other people of color. As a result of the overwhelming media focus on crime, drug use, gang violence, and other forms of anti-social behavior the media have fostered a distorted, pernicious, and often times anti-black public perception of African-Americans. The reasons for this are many and varied, and too extensive for me to go into here. But I will briefly touch on a couple significants.
   Our histroy as a people in this country is one of centuries of struggle against exploitation, oppression, racial discrimination and systematic genocide. The media has played a key role in perpetuating the negative effects of our historical relationship to this country by contributing to our continuing status as second-class citizens and the proverbial scapegoat for all things that are and dop go wrong in America. As a result, white America, and people in genearl have suffered from a deep uncertainty as to who we really are, what we are about and who to interact with us.

   African-Americans are more than robbers, rappers and sports figures, but long as someone else controls the keys to the media people receive we shall forever be subject to these and other unfair and distorted preceptions and indignities.

   We need to build our own medias!!!

   Lakeith Amir-Sharif (”Sharif”)

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