How Does Mass Media Cause Racial Tension?

In the wake of the Newark riots, America is on its heels wondering where we went wrong. What could have possibly caused this overwhelming rise in racial tension? As it turns out, some of America’s greatest leaders have addressed what is behind this ethnic strain in cities all around the country. Some of these leaders include Governor Wallace of Alabama, Stokely Carmichael, and the late Malcolm X. George Wallace, the current governor of Alabama has a very clear idea as to what is the cause of the recent rise in tension. As an old time southerner, Governor Wallace is a firm believer of segregation and harshly opposes the civil rights movement. In his view, the challenge of the status quo in the south is what caused these dangerous conditions and rioting around the country. All was fine until the Northerners felt as if they had a responsibility to change how things had always worked in the south. However, our next
He views this racial tension as a direct result of pacifism within the black community. Similarly to how Hitler rose to power only two decades ago with appeasement by other European nations, the black community is allowing for these degrading states of mistreatment to happen, doing nothing about them. Another reason Carmichael views as a cause of racial tension is the mass media and its portrayal, or lack of portrayal, of the civil rights movement. The media either shows the movement in a negative light, or doesn’t even show it at all. Malcolm X, while he worked with SNCC, would not agree with its non-violent roots. X was a known advocate of “any means necessary” as long as it provided the movement with immediate results. X viewed racial tension as a result of the white man’s stranglehold over the black community. X believes that the black community has been economically exploited, politically oppressed, and socially tarnished by white