MAMEWorld Forums - Welcome to the War Room - Re: How about a light hearted Bin topic... race.

Some blacks are violent. Some whites are violent. Or, better yet, some people are violent and are looking for an excuse to channel that rage in destructive ways against other human beings.

And the corporate-owned/corporate-subsidized mass media *LOVES* to play that "If it bleeds, it leads!" angle, especially when it involves subdividing the human species by the color of skin.

It's just like professional sports. Except I doubt that be any beer-sponsored brawlfests involving blacks and whites such as handegg^*, boxing, and hockey.

Some of us know the score and refuse to play that game. That makes me, for example, yet another minority. The mass media, whether from one political direction or another, is nothing more a tool to make anyone who gets sucked into the hype a fool.

The end result for those wonderful mainstream media gatekeepers across the entire spectrum and their sponsors?

$$$ PROFIT! $$$

There's a reason why television was once called an "idiot box" back when the receivers were based on bulky vacuum tubes rather that flatscreen panels. And the "content" is just as empty today. Think about it.

It's a troll of the mass population. And the brainwashed cathode-addled zombies feed it. Daily.

---Bekki

^* American "football" is not. Soccer *IS* football. When the "ball" is shaped like an egg and is carried by hand most of the time that's "handegg", su-uh-uh-uh-uckers! (A tip o'tha hat to Maddox)

Combating functional illiteracy with latex-clad drama since the '80s, because old video games rule!