Editorial

Remembering a time before cellphones and beautiful women taking their own damn picture were the norm. Asking if you could use someone else’s phone on too many occasions, now seems way creepier than virtual reality and Facebook friends and frenemies. Routine beat downs and killings by ‘the fuzz’’ went uncaptured, and all of the sudden today, I notice for the first time in a while I haven’t heard the phrase ‘Lighten Up’ since police beatings and murders started to be aired on the network news like Blacks used to appear, being handcuffed, or when the topic was Welfare or Crack it was  symbolized as an urban silhouette to scare the viewers and condition our minds to see Black as a threat as do the cops while target practicing by shooting Black silhouettes, sometimes even armless ones. Mass Murderers to this day are not symbolized on network news by White Silhouettes. Upon reflection, why is that exactly? Serial killers, mad bombers, domestic terrorists…seem to have avoided being type-cast/stereotyped by their color. Mass media causes us see what they want us to see, the way they want us to see it. There is always a bit of truth in most lies. You can’t always believe what you hear, but at least now with big brothers watching, even after the cops turn off their bodycams there is a chance justice will out.