Do Black Journalists Even Exist? Not If You Watch the Presidential Debates
Here’s a newsflash: Black journalists DO indeed exist. You might not know this because their jobs are being taken by professors, pastors and civil rights leaders looking for a new TV gig. Men like Toure, Melissa Harris Perry, Michael Eric Dyson and Al Sharpton are hogging up the MSNBC hosting jobs for their entertainment value, with black journalists being few and far between.
The most direct slap in the face was the passing over of African American journalist Gwen Ifill for the presidential debates. Ifill was a perfect candidate to moderate a debate, but was barely given any consideration whatsoever for the job.
Where have black journalists gone over the last four years? The answer is that they are right in front of your nose and they are starting to speak up.
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) recently stated that the Commission on Presidential Debates is treating black journalists as if they are unqualified or invisible. The group says that there is no time period more appropriate to fight for journalistic diversity than during debates featuring the first African American president.
Candy Crowley of CNN, Jim Lehrer of PBS and Bob Schieffer of CBS News were chosen to moderate three debates between President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Martha Raddatz of ABC News was selected to moderate the vice presidential debates. Not a single African American is on the list of moderators.
African Americans aren’t the only ones feeling left out of the “whites only” party at presidential debates. The president of the Spanish-speaking network Univision also spoke up on the lack of diversity. They are pushing to have their own separate forums and turning off the television during the all-white debates.
The commission hasn’t made a statement about its alleged racial exclusion. They’ve only said that they believe the moderators represent all Americans, even though all of them are white and they typically don’t ask any questions of direct relevance to minority communities. Isn’t that something people would have said in the 1950s?
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This just proves how racism exist in BOTH OF THESE PARTIES! They are one-in-the-same…klanners!!!
If this country is so great, why do Blacks still suffer from racism? Why is this country indebted to china? Forty cents of EVERY dollar goes to china! And, y’all THINK this racist country is BROKE!!! This country ain’t broke; the elite bankers are controlling the cash flow, and got you negroids and caucasoids beLIEving this county is broke!!!
How come they are still gettng their million and billion dollar bonuses, if this country was broke? How come they are sending jobs to china, india and other 3rd world nations for cheap labor…so, they can pocket the rest!!! The bottom line is…this racist country is BREAKING y’all!
BOYCOTT AND SAVE YOUR MONEY BLACK PEOPLE!!!
Well said Derrick! White women, gays and hispanics are the buffer to continue to practice racism against black people. BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT MINORITIES! WE ARE MAJORITIES!!!! White women belong to the oppressive race who is dominating ALL the resources. The only victim she is, is to her white male counter-part. That is a completely different issue and separate from white racism! White women are not trying to champion righteousness for black people (in general) against her man! We keep getting TRICKED into thinking we have allies. WE HAVE NO ALLIES! We built this country and have yet to receive “economic parity.” Forty acres and a mule, jack! I am sick of seeing Afirmative Action being HIJACKED by the WHITE WOMAN! Football games (commentators, interviewers,on the field, etc.) No black women and very few black men! I’m sick of seeing white people, period! This minority has dominated EVERYTHING! And he/she is a minority on the planet and perpetrates as if they are superior.
@Tameri Kemet:
Nothing, but the Black Truth you just spoke! It’s really sad, how our people are MENTALLY ENSLAVED with this xtian b.s. and this political b.s. because they’re both the same: A GAME!
When I tell people, that MLK was part of the Margaret Sanger’s planned parenthood program, they didn’t know, or they don’t want to hear, that Truth about King. This is why Malcolm X didn’t agree with King’s submissive program of NON-VIOLENCE!
This is why negroids today are so PASSIVE, SUBMISSIVE and WEAK toward caucasoids…thanks to King! These caucasoids claim they ‘love’ King, but they only USED this negroid to keep Blacks submissive and weak toward them. THE RESULTS ARE RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR FACES!
YOU KNOW THE TRUTH about the Blackness of the MAJORITY people on the planet. We are 90%, while caucasoids are only 10% of the world population: they are the True minor-ities, or they are OUR CHILDREN because they are MINORS!
It’s ashame, that negroids let caucasoids tell them ANYTHANG, and they will beLIEve it. They let caucasoids call them MINORities, racists, murderers, and Blacks agree to all of these names because they have been BRAINWASHED by King to stay in this knee-ling position! These terrorists are the REAL racists, murderers and minor-ities on the planet, but they have REVERSED this Truth, like they do EVERTHANG else.
It’s time for negroids to GET UP OFF OF THEIR KNEES and start STANDING UP, and start FIGHTING for our LIBERTY, FREEDOM and JUSTICE because these yankees are not going to give us ANYTHANG!!! THESE negroids need to STOP BEGGIN’ AND START DEMANDIN’!!!
I AM GLAD, I’M NOT ALONE
Peace & Love, my Sister
Well White women are considered minorities… So technically… Also It’s indicative of Corporate America too. Once we as Blacks come together and fight against our enemy the white woman we can rise…
The issue of public interest becomes even more pertinent in the case of The Government and The Peoples Owned Media,News Agency,and Broadcasting Corporation,for the simple reason that they are funded either wholly or in part with the Taxpayer’s Money and are Accountable to the people of The United States of America.The[FCC]Federal Communication Commission has been emphasizing the importance of granting Equal Opportunities,Ensuring Equal Access,The Same Amount of Time and Space to The Government and The Peoples Owned Media,with The Taxpayer’s Money…The People’s Media shall provide Fair Opportunity to All Political Parties to Present their programs to The Public by Ensuring Equal Access.
PEOPLE,VOTE-VOTE-VOTE!!..OBAMA-OBAMA-OBAMA 2012!!
DOESN’T DERRICK EVER TAKE A DAY OFF!!!
JUST SAYING…..
NAW! My ‘job’ is to wake up dead thinking negroids like YOU! It will take a 24/7 a day shift to wake y’all up!!!
I’m trying to ‘save’ y’all like zeus/jesus! lol
Just saying…
once again, boyce attacking msnbc and the black people in the tv jobs he surreptitiously desire.
us boyce, how come you didn’t attack cnn? is it because that’s the only tv network that will allow you on tv? you’re banned from fox due to bill oreilly, and msnbc isn’t interested in having you their network. msnbc has hired every kind of black person they can find, but have ignored the great boyce watkins. obviously you’re upset at their decision to avoid you and it’s apparent in your petty, immature attacks.
therefore you jealous of every black person working on msnbc. stop taking your failures in life out on the blacks by printing their names in your twisted articles. if you’re so bold, aim your attacks at the white male executives who do the hiring by printing their names instead of the blacks who have no power in who is hired on these networks.
we know this will never happen, you will never print the names of the white executives because then you would have sealed your fate in never landing the job you truly desire, working on tv to feed your already elitist and inflated ego.
Isn’t it time for African Americans to start dropping out the word “black” and insist using their real African roots. Some are comfortable being colorised like things, places and animals, yet there’s no colors attached to Chinese,Indians and Latinoes, only Africans are good be colored as of slave times.
Men like Melissa Harris Perry?
Yes she is a professor. I gather BJ’s want more money than the pastors and professors?
It’s about time they start speaking up for their position as a journalist and the lack of respect for them. The producers are always to say that they are not racist, but still they don’t employee any minorities journalist to work for them. They love to say that they are hiring the best qualified for the job, but never consider minorities that are qualified like they are saying this is a white man or white woman’s job so quite to break into it.
YES! Black journalists speak up! And do like the Spanish- have your OWN forums! Don’t depend on racists!