A new study has revealed the disparities of people of Color in the media. However, People of Color have been neglected in every sphere of society.
Not long ago natural "Black" hair has come under attack! However, the fact is that Blacks have been dealing with the 'hair attack' through a biased unbalanced beauty industry since slavery or until they threw Madame C. J. Walker 'under the bus' so to speak.
Take for instance something as simple as a foundation. Until recently, there have been few foundations that meet the needs of the variety of shades and skin tones in women of color. Therefore, retail outlets refuse to carry products specifically needful to women of color because their buyers think there is not a market. There is not a market because they think they know what is best for women of color! As a result, they order the wrong product that is left on their shelves.
People of color who are "seeking out news about their communities, they can't find it. And what they see, they don't think is accurate," said Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute, which teamed with The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research on the project. The survey was funded by the American Press Institute and the McCormick Foundation.
When asked whether they thought news about their communities was accurate, 75 percent of blacks said only "moderately" or "slightly/not at all." When Hispanics were asked the same question, 66 percent replied "moderately" or "slightly/not at all."
Tia C. M. Tyree, a Howard University professor and the assistant chair of the university's department of Strategic, Legal and Management Communications, said the stereotyping of African-Americans and Hispanics in the media, and a distrust of systems in the United States that used to be rife with racism contribute to the distrust. lol...Use to be?
Anyway, there is racism, hidden and most often overt through the USA that many people of color call, 'institutional slavery'. It is because of these biased systems, from the Beauty industry, Media, Hollywood, educational, financial, legal therefore, any products as a result of racism is not only rejected but problematic
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