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This Should Challenge Some Media and Racial Conspiracy Theorists

Here are two arguments I come across quite often. The first is that the media’s coverage of unarmed Black people being killed by police or vigilantes is part of some greater scheme to exploit fabricated racial conflict in order to achieve some sinister agenda. This same argument is applied to any media coverage of racial conflict where a Black person is the victim. The second argument is that the government — or Obama specifically — is working with the media to selectively highlight these issues because they want to provoke a race war, pitting Black people, who make up only 12% of the population, against white people, who make up 70%.

So if media coverage of racial conflict where a Black person is the victim is either fabricated or deliberately amplified to advance some evil scheme, then explain this: why are five Black church fires in six days following the white supremacist terrorist attack in Charleston not being reported with high frequency across the majority of media outlets?

This would be the perfect ammunition for the alleged scheme. These are Black churches — historically they have been targets of racist terrorists. The first domestic terrorist laws passed in the United States were in response to Black church bombings. If the media and the government were truly invested in stoking racial conflict, this story would be wall-to-wall coverage.

Again, if the media and the government’s primary motivation for reporting on racial issues where Black people are the victims is to provoke a race riot or divide the country on false premises, then explain why all of the parties allegedly involved in this plot are not reporting on these church fires with the same frequency as other racial stories. This is a legitimate news story. It is not as though there are white church fires of similar frequency that are also going unreported.

How, why, and what the media chooses to report is not this simple. Black people can only wish the media were somehow on their side and acting as their champion — but there is countless evidence proving that is not the case, such as the recent Meet the Press episode.

So the question stands: why isn’t the media giving these church fires frequent and consistent coverage enough to dominate the news cycle?

Here is a list of the church fires as of today:

• Knoxville, TN — 6/21
• Macon, GA — 6/23
• Charlotte, NC — 6/24
• Warrenville, SC — 6/26
• Tallahassee, FL — 6/26
• Greeleyville, SC — 6/30
• Jackson, MS — 6/29

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Further Reading:

6 Black Churches Have Burned In the South, Here’s what the Media Isn’t telling you

Who’s Burning Black Churches -Raw Story