When some of our wealthiest -
among the biggest beneficiaries of the “civil rights movement” -
taking actions on racial injustices rely on mimicking iconic
demonstrations of people who didn't have nearly the resources of
today's multimillionaires fifty years ago, it raises the question.
Nowadays, can't we be more effective than this? In the words Obama
made famous. “Yes, we can.”
THE
PROBLEM:
Finally, we are
addressing the last remaining institutional racial inequality that
few are aware is at the heart of the long unsolved race and social
justice problem. 46 million African Americans - spending $1.2
trillion annually - are without national news media representation.
This means the most visible, vilified race in the nation, African
Americans, are without the most effective accountability imposing
apparatus we can ill afford to be without. It also means we are not
effectively using our power. This self-imposed inequality is one that
only we can fix, a responsibility we must assume.
THE
SOLUTION AND HOW WE WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN
The
launch of our all-inclusive 24-7 national cable news television
network will give black Americans national news media representation
for the first time in history. It's spearheaded by our $50,000
minimum “GoFundMe” www.usathisweek.com
campaign to produce the pilot. Once produced, with corporate
commercials showing it to be a sound business concept, it will be
streamed nationally via YouTube. Included in the streaming will be
our “People Power” capitalization concept: One million shares
offered at $200 a share with no individual allowed more than five
shares. This allows us to raise $200 million to launch our 24-7
all-inclusive national cable news television network and 24-7 on-line
news magazine with a potential opening viewership of a million
partner/owners/ viewers.
https://usathisweek.com/how-well-make-it-happen/
“All-inclusive”
is the key - meaning
we are not going to continue marginalizing ourselves by being a 24-7
black national cable news television network version of Jet, Ebony or
BET. Our all-inclusive enlightened editorial philosophy will cover
the same national news but include the issues, interests, and
concerns of black Americans, which other news has been omitting. This
gives us a competitive advantage over the major news organizations.
Most important, we will include accountability where it has never
been.
We
are introducing a whole new way for us to see ourselves as black
Americans. No longer will we be this helpless powerless race relying
on demonstrations for news media attention, which goes through a
middleman mainstream news media. Establishing our own national news
organization will move us from the sidelines to the forefront in the
national news media arena finally making us full participants in
society. This is the all-inclusive national news media concept
America has been missing, has needed, and has waited for.
WHY
HAS THIS OBVIOUS SOLUTION BEEN SO ELUSIVE UP-UNTILL NOW?
Supporting
this news media endeavor is this rare opportunity since the civil
rights movement to finally get this “race and social justice”
thing right. The widespread, misleading belief is that integration
ended racist practices in law enforcement and the news media. The
reality is that racist practices of police abuse and police killings
of unarmed blacks have continued to this day, with black officers
contributing their share of the abuses and killings of unarmed
blacks.
While
the integrated news media is presumed to be a checking factor against
these racial police abuses, it actually has a tradition and practice
of siding with the police in racial situations, leaving black
Americans completely vulnerable. We are exposing America's news
media's well-- kept, ugly racist secret, which explains why the “race
and social justice” problem has remained unsolved. The
accountability presumed to be provided by the integrated news media
in police and race matters is practically non-existent. In reality,
the news media has been complicit with their racist tradition and
practice of deferring to law enforcement in race matters, including
knowingly covering-up police misconduct in cases involving race.
THE
ALL TIME GREATEST NEWS MEDIA SCANDAL INVOLVES RACE
This
is where the importance of having our own national news media
organization leaves no question regarding its urgency. “The
Big Cover-Up” video is critical in showing an example of this press
and police complicity. https://usathisweek.com/featured/caught
-the-big-cover-up/
This
video shows the entire integrated news media knowingly covering up
police misconduct in a case featuring President Obama, showing that
even he was not exempt from this racist practice by the news media.
While this racist tradition doesn't happen in every case, it occurs
often enough to show it is as real a practice in the news media as
the code of silence is in law-enforcement.
The
video shows that despite integration, these updated racist practices
are deep-seated and continuing with both police and press, thus
explaining why the problem remains unsolved - the news media's
presumed role of watchdog does not apply often in police and race
matters. Most importantly, the video shows the awareness required to
cover and report racial injustices that have been routinely ignored
and where accountability needs to be applied. The take away is if the
President, highest black man on the food chain, is not exempt from
these racist actions, where does that leave the rest of us?
The
number of cottage industries and community actions groups sprouted
over the years around solving this “race and social justice
problem,” all over the country is countless. In the meantime,
press and police complicity has been flourishing undetected and
unaddressed right under our proverbial noses. The
recent Obama committee of CEO's, police chiefs and civil rights
leaders plus Roger Goodell's NFL owners and players panel are the
latest high-profile endeavors completely stumped trying to solve this
thing.
Though
these two groups committed $687 million to racial concerns, the race
and social justice issue prompting their efforts remained unsolved
because like all the other efforts, they never identified the main
problem, which is lack of accountability and the news media's role in
the complicity. This means these problem solvers are
looking for solutions everywhere but where the problem is located -
the lack of the ability to impose accountability. The mainstream news
media does not often extend that protection to black Americans. As
the song says “God bless a child who's got his own.”
WE
HAVE A CHOICE. THIS
IS AN ALL-AMERICAN WAKE-UP CALL
For
the first time in history we finally have a clear choice as black
Americans. We can support establishing our own national news media
representation and become full participants in society or continue to
be marginalized second class citizens relying on marches and
demonstration as our go-to move to combat racial injustice.
Philanthropies have spent billions over these post-civil rights years
on the unsolved race and social justice problem. Understandably, not
everyone has an interest in seeing this problem solved.
The
concept of giving back is widely embraced but the awareness of this
opportunity to support unprecedented empowerment and full
participation in society is little known. Our
minimum
$50,000 GoFundMe
campaign
to produce the television pilot is sitting and waiting for the word
to get around exposing this logical, common sense solution, giving
black Americans the most significant advancement since the success of
the civil rights movement.
It
should be clear, this is not just filling a news media void, it's
finally putting in place the protection that comes with exercising
our first amendment rights of a free press in the constitution. One
thing we hope to achieve is changing the powerless mentality being
passed along to our youth, thinking our only option is to remain
powerless and subservient with demonstrations being our go-to move.
This, we are countering by showing, can assert ourselves in the news
media arena and become full participants in society.1
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