How Mainstream Media Is Dangerously Normalizing Messengers of Bigotry

Ezinne Ukoha
7 min readSep 5, 2018

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There’s not much to say and yet so much more to express when it comes to the quiet methods of enabling that mainstream media courts at an intensely high rate.

CNN prides itself as the bearer of bad news in ways that are meant to incite the activism aspect of things as we’re overfed the main course of discourse with a terrifically bad President, who revels in the reality of how his presence dominates — with overpowering force.

Trump is the man who can visit Puerto Rico after a massive storm and playfully toss paper towels while ridiculing natives on camera for their complacency with how the news reports inflate the direness of what they barely survived.

Trump is the man who can publicly declare that White supremacists are very fine people with characteristics that match the bowels of hatred intertwined with the residue of the glorious past, that hyped up the dispensability of non-whites with comfortably callous attitude.

The mastermind of this currently toxic administration is the real MVP of the White nationalists universe.

Steve Bannon is a disturbingly charismatic figure who has the ability to bring this world to its knees. His mission was always to advance the agenda of White supremacy as well as the securement of all the resources that will be needed to compete the task of the ultimate takeover.

Trump is the idiot puppet head who provided the seamless partnership that gave Putin the audacity to relegate the President of the United States to the duties of messenger boy under the shiny armor of the tattered American flag and the bloody national anthem.

The fiasco with Helsinki was nothing more than a nagging snag in the grand scheme of things.

The real detriment to civilization has already been manifested through the virus of relevancy that mandates those who profess loyalty to all things anti-Trump, to fall deeper into the hood of false prophets for a cause that isn’t their own.

How else can you explain the fact that none of the media outlets passionately matched the reverence for the immigrant crisis with the messiness of Puerto Rico, by avidly exposing the emotional and physical hell of helpless…

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