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I just don't see minorities being shoved around unfairly. I mean, check out the sports section. Seems to me African-Americans get a lot of good press (unless you're one of those people who think athletes are performing for "the massah" -right, at several mill a year; put me in the same chains!). I see a lot of Asian kids winning academic awards but perhaps that's being critical. Perhaps that is "categorizing" them as one dimensional so let's leave them out of the paper all together. Then there is the issue of illegal aliens. Well, they ARE illegal aliens. I know, they have every economic right to break the law so we should not make that judgement in the news and withhold the truth. In fact this whole argument is about withholding the truth or, as truthful as the news gets and I do understand it's for sale.

This whole last week our paper has been littered with white criminals. Of course Bush is white and I don't see much positive about him these days. Yet Rice can't buy an enemy. Same with Obama. Reporting on those two doesn't seem too negative. I routinely read several Black columnists who write about as prejudical a perspective as anyone could have. Were they white, they would be castigated. And then there was the white teacher who was put through hell but the black students were excused brcause "that's the way they were socialized".
This is , as many questions of it's ilk are, designed to poloraize people; not get at the truth. Few people are able to jump outside their race or color and have any kind of perspective. When it comes to who we are we always give ourselces the highest marks.
There certainly may be times when minorities aren't portrayed as they want to be. Sometimes though, it's deserved. While they shouldn't be unfairly portrayed, neither should they be coddled. I think a week-to-week careful examination of the news would show that minorities are getting a pretty fair shake. And, I might even go so far as to say media people are careful because there is that omnipresent fear of being labelled a racist whether deserved or not.

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