What did we do before the major cable and broadcast distributor of us the news came to be as it is today?
While most of us back in the day watched the news on the television or listened to it on the radio we also discussed every morsel with our peers in the beauty salons, barber shops, after the church services and at home with family and neighbors to bring about a true sense of what was being reported and how it related to us.
What’s the difference?
We had community, but since our communities have been purposely fragmented by the falsehoods that are so shrewdly placed in our subconscious minds by innocent looking candy coated poisonous media, we now believe that upstanding looking stranger that we allow to come into our living roots every night over the neighbors who are the real eyewitnesses to the events in our communities that have no monetary motivation to spin their account of a happening at all.
So while I wouldn’t say that there is no value to what is shared on the nightly news, you have to remain cognizant that it is laced with so many other ingredients that will clog your ability to see the forest from the trees. Translation? The TRUTH!
Take a fast food meal for example, while it may have to “some” nutritional value, no one could deny that there are ingredients within that literally cancel out all benefit that could come from the little nutrition that may be there in the minority of the overall calorie count.
The same thing goes with the media, it can be a deadly sword that benefits some while beheading another.
I can speak on a tactic that is being executed locally here in my adopted hometown of Orlando Florida. As some of you may know, I am a born and raised New Yorker. But that’s beside the point, here is Orlando there is a blatant move of genocide that is transpiring right in front of our very eyes.
There are several predominantly Black neighborhoods that have been targeted for destruction in order for a new people to come in to inhabit it after the unwanted resident’s have long been removed.