Raheem Sterling
Racism and The Fake News
“Racism is
everywhere and has to be fought each day” was the predominant European media response after the
racial abuse of Raheem Sterling a
black Manchester City soccer player by Chelsea fans on December 9, 2018
.
The good news was Sterling caught no bananas .occasionally
thrown at soccer players of African heritage in other parts of Europe. I don’t believe many Americans have
heard of Sterling who sounded not surprised by racism
and wisely pointed out that just
recently two players with different backgrounds had received
strikingly different media coverage for purchasing homes in well-to-do
neighborhoods in England.
The tendency to reinforce societal
misconceptions seems to be universal . I
believe
fake news
harming progress everywhere.
Instinctively many Americans believe we are more progressive than Europeans that something like this will not happen in America for as a nation we have evolved because of
our painful past.
Why do then
American prisons are home for much
greater numbers of blacks, Hispanics and immigrants?. What can justify the
disproportionate numbers?
Is it possible to watch television without
thinking African Americans are born to box , become superstars in sports ,
or selling crack, and committing crimes?
It
seems difficult to read US papers
papers without believing that many doctors get rich by making
Americans drug addicts.
It seems
equally difficult for an average
American not to believe that Muslims or dark skinned people are bad for National security. Remember 911?
If anybody points out that the US and ,Israeli armed Forces and the New
York city fire department engineered the
controlled demolition of the World Trade
Center and a wealthy New Yorker Larry Silverstein to receive $4.5 billion from an insurance
company you will be labeled anti-American ,anti-semite conspiracy theorist.
Fake news
harming us slowing down progress in politics sports medicine
and social life.
Pres. Eisenhower warned us about the dangers
from the military industrial complex.
That’s the force behind the fake news.
Do my fellow Americans realize that
around the world same mistakes made by the Ottoman Empire , Nazi
Germany and the Soviet Union are being repeated.
Some of
these mistakes reinforce racism as it
was observed in London on December 9, 2018.
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