Blown out of Proportion

Too long now Have I seen this mess about Jena 6 blown out of porportion. We have now been hearing about the story of Jena 6 for the past few weeks. Something that took place in 2006. The media is funny, as one who is going into the media field, I think its ridiculous how different races are depicted all over the news. We (African-Americans) get talked about bad because we fight injustice. We go to Jena, Louisiana and protest a right given to us and they tell us we blow it out of proportion. What will it take to get the world to notice us. What happened on the Edmund Petus Bridge back on Bloody Sunday? The world saw African Americans being treated like crap and the world spoke out...the media played its roled and showed everyone what was happening. And then the media does things to make us seem so cruel. We are stereotyped and portrayed as thugs, hoodlums, only rappers, and people who dog fight. It's amazing that Michael Vick was seen as the spawn of satan..No, dogfighting is not right, but what if Michael Vick wasn't Michael Vick what if he was an avergae person with no status? Would the America be own his case? What if he was Drew Breese? Would America condemn that man? No he'd be preparing for Sunday's game!!! And then the media stays on the story as if he's the only one to ever dog fight. Dogfighting is widely practiced in Latin America and in India! We don't have people flocking to those countries to protest though! Wonder why? is it because it's not America? OH come on!! Good ol' America cares about everyone! IF you care so much about animal rights, fly yo butt to India and Latin America and protest!!!!! In no form or fashion do I advocate violence or crime...im a believer of if u do the crime you should do the crime (fair trial and all) But soon as some Caucasion lady is kidnapped and rapped its on every single network and local channel and there is a massive man hunt on and everyone knows about it, but the same thing can happen to an African-American or a Hispanic, or Asian, but we never hear anything about it! I'm sry that just pisses me off. I know that rape, murder is all the same no matter what race you are and yes you should be convicted but the way the media covers it is ridiculous!! So excuse us for finally getting some coverage on the injustice of America. The bad thing about it is....it goes on all the time, but we never hear about it. SO we have to fight and fight to get our stories out there. There aren't many positive stories on us. We are the ones who get covered with crime and drugs..that's about it. We don't hear the stories of kindness and hope! I am not racist, but i can sit hear and say I know African Americans who are racist and Caucasions who are as well. So don't say I am being a racist. I just KNOW when I am in the field I will fight everyday in the morning meeting to get the stories that should be covered. Good Day