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Making blacks look bad
To the editor, I don't not understand many things in life but this happens to be an extreme case of puzzlement. Why is it that every time a black athlete happens to be on the front page of the Wildcat, you show a mug shot picture of them? Why is a mug shot photo required to show your audience who the focus of the story is? Take for example the Donnell Harris story featured in the Monday October 19 issue. He has played basketball at this university for two or three years and you all couldn't find another picture of Harris to put on the front cover of yesterday's paper? You couldn't find a basketball photo from a previous season to put on the cover? I didn't even need to read the article yet. When I picked it up I already knew that it was about another man "acting buck wild" and "not following the rules." And how often does that picture become the one painted by the media about black men? Harris is not the only black man who has been portrayed in the manner. There have been others and instances when black men have been showcased on the front cover who didn't even attend the UA at the time of the incident being reported. This madness needs to stop and soon.
Whitney Love |
