Why is Fox and CNN making such a big deal on Obams's skin color?

Question

Why is every one who has come in contact with Obama being exaimined to see if there is any dirt on them?

Has there been a mention of the suicide in the Clinton Whitehouse? Has there been a mention of how McCain voted on a certain national holiday? Does it seem that the powers that run the media are now trying very hard to stop Obama?

Why are so many Black radio hosts and Jesse Jackson now asked to speak on the election? Is it because the biased media wants to hear something inflamatory?

Answer 1

Historically, the U.S. is a nation that became prosperous enslaving blacks. After emancipation, laws were created to oppress blacks from having any economic opportunities in the U.S. After segregation was officially

outlawed, social "norms" prevented blacks access to mainstream society. What is going on right now is a REALLY big deal and I totally support Obama, not because he is black, but because of his stance on issues I feel are of utmost importance not only to the U.S., but world wide. The fact that Obama is a black man is big plus in my eyes on many different levels. Others still feel threatened by the fact that he is black; they just will not admit such. The media is trying hard to find something wrong with him so people can continue to deny the fact they don't like the idea of a black man as President of the United States.

Answer 2

Very true. No one seems to want to talk about how McCain voted against making MLK's birthday a national holiday in 1983.

The media wants to make an issue out of anything that they can - it stirs up attention and gets people watching, regardless of what it costs the people whose names they're smearing. Like the Rev. Wright fiasco - how they only played a little snippet of his sermons - just enough to make them appear completely horrid, when in reality, they weren't that bad if you watched them in their entirety. I'm white and even I can say that he made a lot of valid points. I think he could've certainly worded things a little differently, but he truly did have valid points.