Angry Black Woman Explodes on Innocent White Man
A Meme is Born
I thought The Hill was some neutral journalistic newspaper site that portended to objectivity when reporting on the doings of Congress. Man was I wrong. I’ve never visited or subscribed, just clicked on articles or web clips on YouTube that would pop up. But lately I’ve noted they tilted right pretty hard.
Sure, you can say the titling is actually ‘balancing.’ American journalists in every major outlet have an obsession, especially during and after the Trump years, of appearing “fair and balanced.” Those of with brains know there is zero interest — or profit — of Fox wanting to be either. It was a slogan, much like Trump’s repetition of lies, that obeyed the magic “six rule”: something repeated six times and people will then take it as fact. Some students of rhetoric might refer to it as the Truth Bias. There are about 25 of them, or 20 or 21 or 12 depending which scholar you read or talk to.
Fox was set up as a news channel originally by Roger Ailes with the express interest back in the 1990s of not being a news channel. Instead of some implicit bias toward the left or right while trying to maintain objectivity, he just decided out of love of profit that catering to the right-wing and branding the main news media as left would be a great business opportunity.
And it was, it became a gold mine. To be fair, there’s nothing wrong with being a good businessman in a capitalist state. Keeping the king or government happy by being fair is maybe the point of news, it’s the pint of profit. With free speech behind him, he went full in and Fox evolved away from decency until we got the full Tucker Carlson monster of racism Fox is today.
But in order to keep up, other news outlets had to start being fair and balanced it seems, especially The Hill that covers the inner sanctum of Congress. It must report on “both sides.” While MSNBC has it’s Rachel Maddow of liberalism that attack Trump and the GOP out of profit and rating, deciding to purse the same capitalist god Fox preys to.
But The Hill reports on all Congressional proceedings and needs to interview people on “both sides.” In doing so, it has pulled farther and farther to the right it seems. I just looked it up and it says for advertisers: “The Hill stands alone in delivering solid, non-partisan and objective reporting on the business of Washington, covering the inner-workings of Congress, as well as the nexus between politics and business.” Non-partisan? Maybe. Objective? Trying to balance a calm Jim Jordan with an exploding black woman on the other side? Is that just clickbait, or, knowing the history of America, more deliberate?
Certainly, the Hill thinks the far right is not the traditional business class right of Reagan or of the evangelical right of Bush, but the full white supremacist Trump right.
And catering to that group while trying to fair is a poor way to conduct journalism. Apparently, it isn’t working. Or it is. Since for them, reporting on Truth is reporting politics, political reality. You can’t show angry white men so much on the right without “balance.” That’s how we wind up with this opening screen shot, one which any decent racist will enjoy: the angry black woman “exploding” on the naïve white man, who is just sitting there expressing his views. Does he really deserve it?
Anyone who’s educated though will know that Jim Jordan is one of the leading Trump supporters from Ohio, who helped cover for a pedophile wrestling doctor who fondled the boys. To be fair to JJ: He just didn’t know what was going on, he claims. He also apparently helped organize the Trump Insurrection of January 6th, the one when white men, fearful they would lose their country to democracy, rampaged Congress when Trump said, Let’s go get them now, I’m coming with you. Jim was caught lying about his January 6th phone call and looked like a fool. So, maybe that’s the look The Hill is trying to portray in that meme (it’s a screen shot by The Hill but it is really an internet meme they create deliberately, or if not full deliberate, then full of implicit racist bias intent).
You might also know that Val Demmings is the black congress woman from Florida that is running against Marco Rubio, the suave Trump supporter/maybe not Trump supporter, known to Trump as “little Marco Rubio.” (It is a reference to race which Marco can’t pick up on; I’ll let you think on it.) By positioning Val as the Angry Black Woman now, it is taking a political stance. The meme to me shows her berating a reasonable white man, and in a Florida race for senate that equals Blacks coming for You. This is journalism now a days being fair and balanced, unconcerned it dabbles in racist tropes.
I didn’t watch the video clip, yet. The meme is too powerful not to talk of and discuss. Since Trump left office, Forbes, the business journalist website, and magazine, known for its annual ranking of the richest people and companies in America and world, starting a similar positioning of its clips on YouTube. All its snippets of politicians talking in these five-minute sprints showing some mild Republican being berated or ridiculed unfairly by some upset and unreasonable Democrat. I have seen these clips a couple times in the beginning, and they actually have shown a reasonable conversation or a justified questioning by the Democrat with the Republic appearing as reasonable as possible in that clip — which is hard to find on Ted Cruz.
The point of these daily Forbes memes is not for people to watch them, but for people to see how upset Democrats are. Its clickbait pictures are the end point in themselves, as they try to create “balance” by showing the GOP politicians as able to make and withstand “attacks” in a levelheaded manner. If you see enough of them, you might begin to think they are fair and that being called angry racists is wrong. Trump was that way, but don’t paint the whole party by his and his “trailer park” brush.
The white men have been mouth frothing angry on the right for a while. The black female politicians though have had to master non-anger, have had to appear assertive at most, without crossing that line into anger. Or they will be heavily Foxsplained to about keeping their anger in check by Ingram and Hannity.
As a middle-aged white male myself, I’m all for Ms. Demmings though unleashing on Jim Jordan. He needs heaps and heaps of shamming by black women just to bring him down a little. It will be good practice to take down Rubio.
I’m ready for their debates, where I hope to see her lash out at him in anger. In Florida, it’s about time black women started lashing out from all the justifiable anger they’ve been forced to kept in.
