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Have you ever seen the show C.O.P.S.? Is it me? Or, do the cameras only typically show white officers chasing black subjects? There are images of our people running from the police. There are images of our people fighting with the police. And sadly, there are more images of our people being arrested by the police. I’m sure the average American watching these images would assume African Americans committ the most crimes.

C.O.P.S. and Real Stories of the Highway Patrol are famous for putting black people in a negative light. Young, black males are constantly seen as criminals on these shows. In every other episode, we’re beating our spouse, carrying a sack of weed or some other drugs in a car or putting some kind of theft. Replaying these images over and over has a sobering effect on most black and white Americans. African Americans aren’t able to trust their own kind. White Americans always think we’re up to no good.

Hollywood thinks it’s “entertainment” to show the police in action. However, crime doesn’t just happen in ghettos and trailer parks. Criminals aren’t only black guys in white tees and poor whites in cut-off shorts. The Mendelez Brothers, O.J. Simpson, Robert Blake and Phil Spector committed murders in Bevelry Hills (Ca). Rodeo Drive is a haven for tourist assaults, muggings and smash and grabs. But, let’s not have some pickpocket get caught in an outfit from American Eagle!

C.O.P.S. in Las Vegas patrol The Strip looking for underage prostitutes. Of course, the ones they find are African American. A viewer watching this show every week could develop an aversion to meeting people of color. I have yet to see the first “illegal” that can speak English properly. Some educated Latinos do exist!

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When will the U.S. Today stop headlining black athletes’ being arrested? FBI INDICTS BARRY BONDS. 41 NFL PLAYERS ARRESTED IN 18 MONTHS. MICHAEL VICK INDICTED FOR DOGFIGHTING RING. TITANS DEAL WITH VINCE YOUNG DRAMA.

These are some of the slanted, and borderline racist headlines from USA Today. This established periodical maintains its “lynching in print” of African American athletes. It fails to relate both sides of the “color” issue. The newspaper acts as a sounding board for whites who feel blacks receive too many benefits from affirmative action and a multiculturalistic society. They would publish statements calling Cincinnati Bengal wide receiver, Chad Ocho Cinqo, a “selfish, self-promoter”. However, in that same newspaper, they won’t refer to Jacksonville Jaguar wide receiver, Matt Jones, as a “first-round bust and a drug addict”. Ocho Cinqo is black. Jones is white. There’s no equal billing in racial stereotyping in USA Today.

These articles are insulting to our people. They are written to injure and not heal. We should do just like the 1955 Negroes who disliked their treatment on Montgomery, Alabama buses. We are no longer taking our “act” to the back. We’re going to “keep our seat” and make our stand.