Hate Crimes
The trend of media coverage and reporting has taken a stereotypical and racist dimension over the years and hence having a bias on some of the races. This is in particular reference to the crime rate and crime coverage. It has been an observed trend that crimes committed by African-Americans on whites are not given as much coverage and emphasis as those committed by whites against the African-Americans, though they could be of equal seriousness and driven by the same motive and produced same results.
This can be said to be some racial stereotype, which is a fixed belief or idea that most people have about a given group of people or particular person or a given thing, though it may not be necessarily true or based on reality (Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, 2011). These are social constructs that evolve over a long period of time and engrave themselves into the society among a given people about another group.
The above problem is one of the results that come with stereotyping trend in America; this is between the African-Americans and the Caucasians. This is the idea that most, if not all the problems that are faced by the African-Americans are caused by the whites, ranging from marginalization, segregation, domination to the financial problems. This has been a stereotype that has held on to the society for a very long period of time and has refused to shake off. This perpetuation of the stereotype presumably sprouts from the slave history in America where majorly the Africans were forcefully transferred to America and systematically located at the base of the social rung. Even though decades have passed, this stereotype has dogged the American society even in instances where it could be completely untrue.
The FBI look at hate crime also known as bias crime as "a criminal offense committed against a person, property or society which is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender's bias...
Hate Crimes Against African-Americans The media has lots of potential to be agents of positive change in the society. One of the aspects that the media can easily put a tight grip on, for change, is stereotyping. Unfortunately, the same media has been implicated in the court of public opinion as being supportive of stereotypes. There is a host of factors and methods adopted by the media that help to promote
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The fear of adolescents and young adults is also being driven by the media's choice to sensationalize events that are actually very isolated in their number, and occurrence. CONCLUSION As Canada continues to grow and its focus on crime continues to change, it is important to understand the freedom that the media has when it comes to what to cover and how to do it. Crime is rising in Canada in areas
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