Bernard Creamer, Jr.
The Divine Nine
The Clear the Airwaves Project
Media’s Continuing Assault on Black People
On July 13th, Sandra Bland was found hanging in a jail cell days after a blatantly unlawful arrest. Another high
profile “mysterious death” of a black person. We all went to social media with our positions and pontificating.
We all grieved and lamented. We all felt the pain of hearing about another black person being dead for no reason
beyond his/her life having little or no value in the eyes of a white police officer.
Less than 2 months later, like clockwork, as with the rest of our high-profile lynchings, the dust has settled and
the masses have gone silent again. The media is on to something else for the most part, and as “directed” by those
news outlets, so are we. We have the unfortunate habit of engaging these stories in direct correlation to how
much time the media spends saturating our consciousnesses with them. They stop talking about it, so do we.
These indiscretions and transgressions against black people are an almost daily occurrence. Every story does not
make the news as every story isn’t captured by an individual with a cell phone camera who just happens to be in
the right (wrong) place at the right (wrong) time. Either way, most of us are back in silent mode . . .life goes on.