Blog post #4 I Angel Zamora

According to the introduction of the book “Seeing through race”, Martin A. Berger states that the editors (who were mostly white) of newspapers and articles used photography pictures where the blacks were seen as victims in order for the whites to feel sympathy for them. I agree with Martin A. Berger because in today’s society it is still happening. For example, the whole George Floyd protests that were happeningĀ  weeks back, newspapers would report pictures of blacks in which were seen as victims and being beaten by the police. They did not show while the blacks marched together as one in order to show that they are fighting for their rights and justice to what had happened to George Floyd. Not too mention that there were many stories circulating around that he was armed or that he was not cooperating with the police offers when in reality, no one was reporting the true story. Newspapers then and now do not show the fact that they all march as one in order to fight for their rights and for justice of the inequality is happening in today’s society. Many would say that these newspapers and their photographs are simply trying to show you the reality of the news, but if that were the case then why show all the bad and make blacks seem like the bad people. Not too mention that they would make up so many stories and always leave some thing out making the blacks seem like “just another victim”.