Posted on 10/15/2020 10:11:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Media coverage of Sen. Kamala Harris’ vice presidential nomination disproportionately focused on her race and gender, according to a report published by Time's Up Now, an organization founded in the wake of the #MeToo movement that aims to fight gender-based discrimination. A quarter of the analyzed coverage incorporated at least one racist or sexist stereotype — most of which derived from the repetition of President Donald Trump’s ad hominem attacks on Harris.
The report, released last week, compared media coverage of the announcement of Harris’ nomination this year and 2016 coverage of the announcements of the vice presidential nominations of then-Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va.
The racist and sexist “angry Black woman” trope was the most prevalent stereotype in “mainstream U.S. top-tier media coverage” of Harris, emerging in 13 percent of the analyzed coverage surrounding the August announcement that she would be Joe Biden’s running mate. Trump’s attacks on Harris’ character - as “nasty,” “mad,” and “mean” - largely fueled the prevalence of that trope, according to the report.
Some journalists also contributed to it - albeit less than Trump did overall - by characterizing Harris as “uncooperative” and “unlikeable,” the report noted. But most biased coverage resulted from mainstream news outlets perpetuating racist and sexist storylines.
At a time when the journalism industry faces its own reckoning over race and racism within the industry, the report shows the persistence of sexist and racist biases in both media and politics, and the unique blend of both that Black women experience.
In her first joint interview with Biden since their announcement as running mates, Harris shied away from explicitly blaming Trump’s attacks on racism and sexism, and instead characterized his descriptions of her as distractions from his administration.
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Considering Biden only considered women of color for the spot, well, duh!
You beat me to it.
It’s not like Slow Joe announced weeks in advance that he was going to name a Black Female.
Isn’t that why she was chosen for the ticket, her race and gender? If she was a white male, she would not have even been considered. Can’t. have it both ways
Harris is of Indian descent.
Black is the word that expresses a lot more than skin color.
I’m not into the racial diatribe ‘some’ Blacks are pushing
these days, but the word does signify more than skin color.
It addresses people who have descended from the ugliness of
slavery. Even then a lot of Black folks have immigrated to
the United States, so even that isn’t fully true.
What is true is that Harris seeks to claim she’s down with
the struggle ‘some’ Blacks have faced during and post
slavery.
She is in effect, stealing something that isn’t hers.
If I were Black and my ancestors had gone through slavery,
it would anger me something fierce that a woman was trying
to capitalize off something her family had never had to
deal with.
Then knowing that her family had run three plantations and
had many slaves?
Harris is a fraud on Black Americans.
I’m honestly shocked she hasn’t been called on it.
make that five plantations (oops)
So the decision was made on the color of one’s genitals?
Media cites thier own media driven narrative as a “trend”?
Liberal logic.
“Race, gender dominated coverage of Harris’s VP announcement, report finds”
Her public speeches are dominated by the topics of race and gender. I guess it’s OK when she does it.
Same old stuff.
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