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People of Color Fill Supporting -- Not Starring -- Roles

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Author: 
Jean Marie Brown
May 23, 2012

The mainstream narrative focuses on controversy and celebrity and fails to show people of color in assertive and active roles. Consider the report about the psychologist who wants to exterminate “young black thugs,” or the GOP image makeover around the Civil Rights Movement, or the sentencing of a white supremacist who injured a black official in Arizona with a bomb. All reference people of color as  supporting players in examinations about white umbrage over race.

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