The national media’s distorted portrayal of Black America that amplifies the negative to the point that it distorts reality is more than just biased media reports. They function as media manipulation psychosocial programs. It is a covert system of control that ensures the continuance of white dominance by ensuring that Blacks remain the most racially devalued and most economically exploited group in America.

The constant relentless bombardment with deplorably negative images of themselves that of which African Americans are so inundated with throughout the media is a very carefully and deliberately designed psychological conditioning program. It is a program designed to break down African Americans’ sense of Black racial heritage, allegiance and unity by subjecting them to seeing only the fraudulent worst in themselves while implying that they admire, respect, and trust only Whites.

Its daily assault on the Black psyche is designed to corrupt African Americans’ sense of racial unity and cohesion, mold the character of self-hatred, and engender self-doubt, self-loathing, and distrust among their group. This media psychosocial treatment is deliberately designed to divide and manipulate Black people into accepting white dominance over their lives by convincing them that it is now they that are their own worst enemies. Blacks own negative interactions and experiences with their fellow Blacks merely act as confirmations to what is being implied.

This is all possible because the mass media form for us our image of the world and essentially everything we know—or think we know—about events outside our own neighborhood or circle of acquaintances comes to us via our daily newspaper, our weekly news magazine, our radio, or our television. By employing carefully developed psychological techniques, the mass media guide our thoughts and opinions. The way in which the news is covered: which point of views are emphasized and which are played down; the phrasing of headlines; the choice of words, pictures, and illustrations—all of these things subliminally and yet profoundly affect the way in which we interpret what we see or hear. The media tell us which side of an issue that we should favor, forms our images of various groups of people. Even our images of ourselves is greatly influenced by what media shows us about our own group. Given these factor the media has been used for decades by government elites to manipulate public opinion and to socially engineer society towards governmental objectives.
Therefore it was logical that the U.S. government elites would use this same well proven method of control against its (greatest organizers, protestors, and fighters of institutionalized white racism) Black population as a means of maintaining its white dominance and control. This media deplored psychosocial program manipulates the minds of the Black masses to admire and love whites while blaming and hating themselves.

Through its suppression of certain news stories that are contrary of the myth of white supremacy and its blatant propagandizing of distorting TV documentaries that deploringly characterizes its Black population, the white controlled media have taken the lead in persuading a whole generation that Black people are the most physically abusive, the most users of drugs, the laziest, the worst parents, the worst children, the lesser intelligent, and have contributed nothing at all to the benefit of society.

This media psychosocial program perpetuates a depiction of Black people that expresses a profoundly distorted view that elevates what is wrong with Black America above all that we know is right with Black America. Its portrayal of Black America is one that ignores all facts that conflict with the racist conceptions of the white elites and sees the endemic problems of Black America as rooted primarily with Blacks themselves, instead of emanating from white racism. This program revises the past to conveniently make whites appear less inhumane through out America’s brutal racist history; and despite a brutal history to the contrary– fraudulently depicts whites as being the standard of ethics and morale values while portraying Blacks as being all that’s wrong with America. It also facilitates a national consensual environment of where in which Blacks cries for equality are lesser heard and their mistreatment appears more justified.

And although this media psychosocial program is less blatant than those earlier racist systems used in the past against Blacks, its affects are very real and detrimentally. In fact this method is by far the most proficient system ever deployed against America’s black population.

To the detriment of Blacks, this system of applied psychological conditioning has been an extremely effective. It has successfully conditioned many African Americans to not only accept, but in some cases to prefer the dominance of Whites and white institutions over their lives by misleading them to believe that they are, themselves, their own worst enemies. These thoughts when injected into the Black psyche engender an aberration of internalized self contempt that pulverizes Black unity and halts Black upward mobility.

Molding Black Minds

Reading your pledge I could only say “Dieu soit Loué!” other Black brothers are starting to understand. However being a Haitian that paid dearly for the right to self-dertermination there is a point I want to make to re-align the Quest.

In 2004, the right to self determination was taken away from the Haitian people. The Lavalas party is a symbol of that right. We have to be very carefull in asking for the return of whoever…We have to analyse the international situation now and see that a return now would be a step backwards because history doesnt repeat itself the same way… We are still in the confusion and chaos that 2004 created…Bon mas mele ak move mas…We must take the time to regroup and reorganize ourselves…the election way might not be the only way at this point…The grassroots have been really injured siince 1991 and never really been able to regroup…Lets support them and see what kind of a leader will rise from that work (that as started in the grassroots but needs support) We have to be able to organize fair elections with a Permanent institution (we are still in a KEP provisoire, in any country that would be considered a fraken joke, since 1986) We have to look forward now and we have to ask for the right to make our own choices, our own way, for and with the majority of people in all works of life. This moving backwards by asking for a return, is a bit far fectched and really looks like cheap propaganda.

Hopefully we can reach a higher consciousness by understanding all the implications in the actions we undertake.

Solidarity
Nadine Dominique

I agree, and I could speculate about this a great deal, having studied a fair bit of Haitian and Haitian/U.S. history, but it would be just that: speculation, about an often inexplicable constant of U.S. foreign policy, since Washington and Jefferson sent $400,000, late 18th century dollars, worth of munitions to Napoleon’s forces, to crush the Haitian Revolution, which Napoleon, who was way overextended at the time, in the Mediterranean, failed to do.