The challenge for smaller news agencies and private bloggers to get the facts before the larger population was always a steep climb. However, with Donald Trump’s actions on net neutrality, that challenge became a mount- Everest.
Large tech giants like Google and Facebook get to decide what viewers get to see. Hosting platform Hostgator had this to say about net neutrality.
(If net neutrality ceases, we could be looking at an internet bogged down by fees, where users must pay to access certain types of content. The various streaming services available today, from NetFlix to Amazon, would impose additional tolls that would then be passed onto the end-users of their services. This would not affect just streaming services but all content).
The FCC has hardly done anything to curtail the desires of big-tech to control the information superhighway like truckers control the I‑84.
So even though private bloggers like your humble servant have been warning about the Supreme Court’s actions in solidifying and maintaining police violence in America, those facts hardly get to the larger reading public because of what large corporations like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and others are allowed to get away with by deciding what you are allowed to see, even though the idea of the internet was supposed to be a place where information should flow freely without, discrimination, blocking or throttling internet usage by all ISPs (Internet Service Providers) or any governmental intervention.
Having said that, I must be candid by adding that among the Black population in the United States, there is a certain segment that stubbornly refuses to seek out and find information that informs and educates.
At the risk of attracting incoming fire- I venture to add that African-Americans, to a large extent, seem to be reading averse.
Sure, a sizeable percentage of the African-American female community is earning college degrees but we are yet to see the data on how this positivity impacts the younger generation one way or the other.
By and large, the focus appears to be on entertainment and preening of feathers, except for a few standouts like Stacey Abrams et al.
Large News Agencies have a duty to inform and not engage in fluff reporting, but fluff gets eyeballs on television screens these days, not solid news reporting.
So I was surprised to read an article by CNN’s Brando Tensley titled (The Supreme Court has sided with the police at the expense of Black Americans).
You think?
In his article posted on CNN’s website on August 26th, 2021, Tensley wrote; Mostly, civil rights activists have laid the responsibility for curbing police abuse at the feet of national lawmakers, whose efforts have so far yielded nothing. For all the ferocious debate about the US’s racist policing régime, there’s been minimal discussion about an actor that deserves a lot of the blame for the wretched state of present-day policing: the US Supreme Court.
Tenley’s short but brilliant article was a breath of fresh air, for me at least, in that as a local blogger constrained by the lack of neutrality on the web, I felt like a lone voice crying out in the wilderness —at least before Tensley’s article.
But in fairness, I have not been silent in pointing to the real cause of police violence in America today: the US Supreme.
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It isn’t that this is news; every single step that America takes, in whatever direction it goes, stitched in those steps are threads that protect white supremacy.
Every yard of the American body fabric is intertwined with racist protections for whites that are antithetical to the interest of Black & Brown Americans.
The Supreme Court is the chief architect of white supremacy in America; it will not protect Black and Brown people from police violence.
Police are the enforcement arm of American Fascism, and that’s the bottom line.
https://mikebeckles.com/supreme-courts-qualified-immunity-a-death-warrant-on-black-americans/
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.