05.07.07
Weekly Poll: “Special Interest Group”
When Don Imus used the now infamous phrase “nappy-headed hos” to refer to the Rutgers basketball team, the African American community spoke out against it. The mainstream media referred to them as the African American community.
When Jeff Vandergrift (”JV”) and Dan Lay (”Elvis”) aired a series of highly insulting and racist radio segments (radio program 1, radio program 2, radio program 3) that denigrated the Asian American community, the Asian American community spoke out against it. However, the mainstream media referred to them as “a special interest group.”
Why is the African American community referred to as it is, but the Asian American community is referred to as “a special interest group?”
- A) The African American community has more people (34.9 million) than the Asian American community (12.5 million)
- B) The Asian American community is viewed by the mainstream media as “less important” than the African American community
- C) Asian Americans are expected to keep quiet. Any attempt to speak up is belittled by mainstream media.
- D) Asian Americans are viewed as perpetual foreigners. Therefore any interest their community has is viewed as a “special interest,” and is never viewed as something that is “worthy”
- E) The Asian American community has been marginalized to the point where it is, on a mainstream-media level, effectively powerless. The mainstream media intends to keep it this way, and by repeatedly using the term “special interest group,” it ensures that it succeeds in doing so.
- Some Other Answer
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