Rejected petition Introduce more positive images of black culture and families on the media,

Rejected on 19 March 2019

The History of black African people which our taught in settings reflect a negative imagine on the minds of black children and families. Media and government settings produces many negative stories and images relating to the black African race.

Major media outlets routinely present a distorted picture of black families — portraying them as dependent and dysfunctional — while white families are more likely to be depicted as sources of social stability, according to the report released Wednesday by Color of Change, a racial justice organization, and Family Story, an advocate of diverse family arrangements.
“This leaves people with the opinion that black people are plagued with self-imposed dysfunction that creates family instability and therefore, all their problems,” said Travis L. Dixon, a communications professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who conducted the study.

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