Negative Images Brainwash African Americans

What Tom Burrell is saying in this interview is something that I have always thought about but was never able to put into words. The way that black people are portrayed in the media (and by media I mean ANY SOURCE of media) compared to white people is noticeably different. It is as if black culture has embraced the idea that they are inferior without them realizing that they are portraying a form of inferiority that is less noticeable because they embrace it themselves. What Burrell is saying about our culture being brainwashed and the way in which people act and think about themselves being passed down from generation to generation all the way back from early slavery days is very believeable. What makes this all so interesting is that the people that are being hurt most from this issue are the ones that are embracing it. They bring up Tracy Morgan and Tyler Perry, who the author equates to earlier actors or comedians that portrayed blacks as silly, unintelligent, and baffoons. Is it really possible that years and years of media exposure has brainwashed us on a macro level that we don't even realize that black people are portraying themselves in a way that harms their view, both from their own perspective and the perspective of white people? I think it is. I think that we have become so conditioned to seeing how people are portrayed racially that we now see the differences in media-related situations as "normal" or "cultural differences".
What Burrell says about black people who thrive to be smart being pushed away from the rest of their culture is very important to note. If the norm is for black people to reject other black people for trying to smart or "white" then that right there signals that black people themselves view their race as inferior, whether they realize it or not. I realize these comments might seem a little politically incorrect, but I'm rolling off of what Burrell is saying in the interview. Burrell makes a lot of really good points in this interview and I think this really makes you think about race and race relations in a whole different way. I think there needs to be a massive movement in our society to move away from the way media portrays black people. If things continue the way they are then racism, prejudice, and stereotyping may never be optimally minimalized. If we are truely brainwashed, it will take a lot of work to reverse a few centuries worth of brainwashing to get people to view races differently. Not to say it couldn't be done, but it is something that will take decades, possibly more, to undo. Check out the website they mention, it has a lot of interesting information on it:

www.stopthebrainwash.com