They are obsessed with comparing Black people to whites and other races. I'm not going into the history, details, examples and all that. My first sentence says it all, and I'm only about my health, happiness and healing at this point.
One thing I want to note, is how the media becomes rather silent when it comes to comparing their headlines and articles about Black people vs their headlines about whites/other races in the same exact situations.
The terms they use, the photos they use, the people they interview, the adjectives used, the narratives they construct...
The differences are daring.
They will dissect and analyze us on every trivial topic imaginable. But when it comes to examining the language, images, and framing used in stories about Black people versus the exact same situations involving white people or others—suddenly the analysis disappears.
The media functions like a massive, living machine—an intricate system with countless moving parts all working at once toward the same outcome. Challenging something that vast, holding it accountable, or trying to dismantle its patterns is incredibly difficult when you're confronting an entity that helps shape how the world itself operates.
As Malcolm X brilliantly stated, "The media will have you hating the oppressed and loving the oppressors."
My solutions to my own healing:
+The power and hypnotic lure of the media is undeniable. It's inescapable. It's magazines and newspapers, commercials and advertising, sports coverage, fashion, on and on, oh yeah, the crime stories as well are the absolute key ratings factors. But only if the criminals are a certain race. Other criminals just get the online social media mug shot coverage.
So, through the years I have definitely been able to eliminate a huge portion of any media...print, online, TV, but it's difficult to avoid.
+However, even avoidance alone does not bring healing. This is a new thing that I have learned.
+Writing, emailing, making phone calls etc do not help. I've tried it. I even called a news station one time.
These people simply DO NOT CARE. Of course, groups should continue to fight for fair media representation. Again, solo individuals shouldn't be taking this giant, wealthy, immovable entity on alone and stressing themselves into a state of hopelessness.
+I know that there are great organizations doing great work, but my healing is not about overwhelming myself with any extra information. They exist and I hope they grow, and especially reach out to younger people
+Let's just say if I were still in my let me find out more about this or that positive organization," I'd be bombarded with so much hopeless and depressing information that would add to my trauma so much, that I wouldn't even see any point or hope in continuing my reading or work
+Stop Googling. It is absolutely 100% "the media" that needs to look in the mirror in regard to its anti-Blackness, anti-humanness.
+I'll be glad when Google is no longer so powerful that it's both and verb and noun. Hopefully future generations will only know it as a noun that is of bygone days and no longer rules the Internet by bombarding it with a historical amount of anti-Blackness on every topic imaginable
+As dangerous, damning and deplorable as the media is, I have to think about how they can't snap their fingers or wave a wand and directly hurt my life. For instance, they can't say, "All Black women under the age of 50 are about to experience (Whatever) in 3 minutes after this commercial break. Stay tuned."
I mean seriously, that's about all I can think of. It sounds weird and funny, but I've had to wrack my brain and spirit, to try and stay afloat. And when I concentrate hard on this "what they CAN NOT do to me" it really does help me 🌹🌹
+Someone should construct a Black Humanity Act, to be a continuation of the Civil Rights Act. "Civil Rights" means everyone. We need laws that focus on Black people only.
If it's determined that the media or another entity is not treating Black people in exact same accordance as it treats white/other races, then there should be consequences.
+Since non-Black people are always touted as the 'positive and superior standard of humanity,' The Black Humanity Act will consist of hundreds/thousands of years of racial comparisons and information that can be made into a Bill or a law requiring that Black people be treated as humanely as other races. If any entity is found to be violating Black human being rights by continuing on with these hundreds/thousands of years of oppression, then they will be held liable
((If they gonna compare our behavior and health and income etc to other races, then be sure to compare the treatment, laws, wars, genocides, colonization, and infinite amount of other horrors Black people have endured vs what other races have endured))
That's too much like right, huh.
[Update 3/18/2026]
"Anti-Blackness" is retired from my vocabulary.
Just the other day, I was at someone's house, news was on, and the news goes, "Coming up, we will discuss how DNA determines your likelihood of getting sick." Some crap like that.
Me and the other person started talking about the absurdity of such a segment. I went on and on about the racism and the media's obsession to make Black people sick, when damn, they get sick just as much. Like the other person said, EVERYONE GETS SICK!
Absolutely insane that these people are like this.
And yeah of course, the video they showed during the upcoming segment was of an overweight Black woman, so you betcha me and the other person were really venting about this sickness that these people have in their minds. They're the ones who are sick.
Here is the HALO!
So we vented for like 2 or 3 minutes or so.
Didn't even care to watch the stupid segment of course, we had other things to do with our non-sick selves.
Life to live, things to do.
And hey, my body did not feel the tension and discomfort that it would usually feel with this type of venting and exhaustive topic.
Usually I would be so angry that I could feel the blood rushing in my arms, my heart would beat fast, and my stomach is where I would feel the worst.
This time, I was able to vent without feeling anything in my beautiful body.
This is absolutely major and miraculous.
I used to think that healing meant I won't ever get upset again about these exhausting attacks, but what it really means is being able to keep the attacks outside of my body.
😀🦋🦋
