{"id":1971241,"date":"2023-07-12T18:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T22:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/on-affirmative-action-media-once-again-prove-they-have-no-idea-what-black-people-think\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T18:58:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T22:58:23","slug":"on-affirmative-action-media-once-again-prove-they-have-no-idea-what-black-people-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/on-affirmative-action-media-once-again-prove-they-have-no-idea-what-black-people-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Media&#8217;s Misunderstanding of Black Perspectives on Affirmative Action Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fon-affirmative-action-media-once-again-prove-they-have-no-idea-what-black-people-think%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1971241&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>The Media&#8217;s Misrepresentation of Black Opinion<\/h2>\n<p>The mainstream media portray the Supreme Court&#8217;s recent ruling against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-proves-clarence-thomas-point-that-race-based-admissions-uphold-the-bigotry-of-low-expectations\/\" title=\"MSNBC validates Clarence Thomas' argument on race-based admissions and the perpetuation of low expectations.\">race-based university admissions<\/a> as a devastating blow to black Americans. But black Americans are actually fine with the decision, polling shows.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hardly the first time the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/janicegassam\/2023\/04\/23\/recent-figures-show-that-media-is-still-overwhelming-white\/?sh=45979ec25bf4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overwhelmingly white<\/a> press corps have misrepresented black opinion, and the error always seems to point in one direction.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Supreme Court&#8217;s June 29 ruling, headlines have blared dire predictions about the future of black students in American higher education\u2014many by black college students and activists.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;If affirmative action was to go away, the diversity of schools would decrease and we would see the Black population be poorly represented,&#8221; rising senior Gabrielle Wilson said before the ruling. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JG9F3fjUHa\">pic.twitter.com\/JG9F3fjUHa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/1674841517645496325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/students-react-landmark-supreme-court-affirmative-action-decision\/story?id=100493823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a>: &#8220;Students React to Landmark Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decision&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>For Bunmi Omisore, a student attending Duke University, addressing in an essay how race has impacted her as an African American woman would be difficult. <\/em><em>&#8220;If I were applying to college today, I would have to write about those traumas in my Common App essay. I would have to write about those traumas and those very hard experiences for admissions officers to accept the overwhelming truth that we all know\u2014which is that it is hard to be a Black person in America. And I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s fair,&#8221; Omisore told David Muir in an ABC News Special Report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For students applying under the new standard, it is &#8220;going to be hard to see themselves as someone outside of their race&#8221; if they can only address it through an essay, as opposed to simply disclosing it as one factor among many considered in the admissions process, Omisore said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/affirmative-action-advocates-fear-students-color-elite-colleges-may-fe-rcna92090\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News<\/a>: &#8220;Without Affirmative Action, Advocates Fear Students of Color at Elite Colleges May Feel Disenfranchised&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s why leaders Friday concurred that it&#8217;s more important than ever for colleges to ensure all students feel like they belong on campus. They said they intend to do so by publicly embracing diversity and inclusion, as well as rejecting and condemning racism.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While leaders were reassuring students like Agust\u00edn Le\u00f3n-S\u00e1enz, a sophomore at Harvard, that they belong on campus, many students on the school&#8217;s campus Thursday were expressing concern about how the ruling will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/on-affirmative-action-media-once-again-prove-they-have-no-idea-what-black-people-think\/\" title=\"Media's Misunderstanding of Black Perspectives on Affirmative Action Exposed\">affect aspiring college students<\/a> of color.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is literally high stakes for my family,&#8221; Le\u00f3n-S\u00e1enz told MSNBC. He said he thinks about how it will affect his little brother, who will apply for college in a few years, and his cousin, who will apply for college in the fall. It makes him think about &#8220;the people from my community, specifically from the state of New Mexico, where I am one of two students from New Mexico in my school year. So this has immediate impacts.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/06\/29\/us\/affirmative-action-impact-reaj\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>: &#8220;The Gutting of Affirmative Action is a \u2018Clear and Present Danger\u2019 to Equal Education, Critics Say&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Wisdom Cole, national director of the NAACP Youth &#038; College Division, called the rollback of affirmative action a &#8220;dark day in America.&#8221; &#8220;<\/em><em>Affirmative action has been a beacon of hope for generations of Black students,&#8221; Cole said in a statement Thursday. &#8220;It stood as a powerful force against the insidious poison of racism and sexism, aiming to level the playing field and provide a fair shot at a high-quality education for all. Students across the country are wide-awake to the clear and present danger encroaching on their classrooms.&#8221;&#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, however, elite college students and racial justice activists are not representative of black America. An <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.cdn.yougov.com\/kpnwbn3sup\/econTabReport.pdf#page46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economist-YouGov poll<\/a> published last week finds more black Americans than not approve of the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling against affirmative action.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A new poll finds an overwhelming majority of Americans\u2014including a solid plurality of black and Hispanic Americans\u2014back the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/group-trying-to-convince-asians-that-america-is-oppressive-has-ties-to-chinese-state-media\/\" title=\"Group Trying To Convince Asians That America Is Oppressive Has Ties To Chinese State Media\">race-based affirmative action<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McCormackJohn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mccormackjohn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vLgV3WibIU\">https:\/\/t.co\/vLgV3WibIU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 National Review (@NRO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRO\/status\/1678773378344456192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just 19 percent of black Americans feel affirmative action impacts them, and only 11 percent of those feel the policy affects them &#8220;positively,&#8221; according to the survey. The poll is not an outlier, as political reporter Aaron Blake <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/07\/06\/whos-okay-with-the-affirmative-action-decision-many-black-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">details<\/a> in the <em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists similarly stretch when they try to make black Americans avatars of progressive views on crime, abortion, and transgender rights.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition to policing is often portrayed as a grassroots movement by and for black Americans.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For many Black Americans, real change still feels elusive despite the Chauvin verdict. The trial &#8220;is addressing a symptom, but we have not yet dealt with the disease.&#8221; \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abscribe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@abscribe<\/a>\u2069 \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amy_harmon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@amy_harmon<\/a>\u2069 \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stavernise?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@stavernise<\/a>\u2069 \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emilymbadger?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@emilymbadger<\/a>\u2069  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ttUH1wlbhl\">https:\/\/t.co\/ttUH1wlbhl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterbakernyt\/status\/1384847165755887616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But polls show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2021\/10\/26\/growing-share-of-americans-say-they-want-more-spending-on-police-in-their-area\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">again<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2021\/07\/25\/paleologos-black-detroit-residents-views-police-vary-gender\/8067147002\/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/316571\/black-americans-police-retain-local-presence.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">again<\/a> that black Americans overwhelmingly support maintaining or increasing police funding.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Grio\/KFF poll:<\/p>\n<p>Only 17% of Black voters want to decrease police funding.<\/p>\n<p>34% of Black voters want to increase police funding.<\/p>\n<p>48% want to keep it the about the same.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oSSoX21msr\">https:\/\/t.co\/oSSoX21msr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomBevanRCP\/status\/1585222436361945088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Abortion is regularly covered as a black &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/why-abortion-is-a-civil-rights-issue-for-black-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">civil rights<\/a>&#8221; issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Black men know the Black women in their lives will suffer some of the gravest consequences of Roe v. Wade\u2019s reversal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;For the Black man, it\u2019s all painful, because these women mean so much to us,&#8221; professor Rodney Coates told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCBLK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBCBLK<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zfTEZ2octe\">https:\/\/t.co\/zfTEZ2octe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/1542605409642504193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But black Americans are less supportive of abortion rights than most Democrats, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/religion\/fact-sheet\/public-opinion-on-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveys<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/opinion\/polling-matters\/318932\/black-americans-abortion.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Black Americans are increasingly at the center of <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/lgbtq\/4032605-black-americans-pivotal-role-lgbtq-pride\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LGBT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/nbc-out-proud\/black-history-month-17-lgbtq-black-pioneers-who-made-history-n1130856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advocacy<\/a> coverage, particularly on transgender issues.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rally for Black trans lives draws enormous crowd in Brooklyn. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J3qlK0r89X\">https:\/\/t.co\/J3qlK0r89X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/1272510175740649472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But a large majority of black Democrats\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/americans-turn-even-more-against-transgender-sports-gallup-poll-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">like Americans in general<\/a>\u2014reject progressive ideas about gender identity.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Black Democrats differ from other Democrats in their views on gender identity, transgender issues <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SZvGLH7naA\">https:\/\/t.co\/SZvGLH7naA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZVd0ZF82GF\">pic.twitter.com\/ZVd0ZF82GF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pewresearch\/status\/1610698087110000649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With the media so out of touch with black America, it&#8217;s no wonder some leading Democrats have lost the plot, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden said on Friday that black voters torn between voting for him or President Trump &#8216;ain\u2019t black.&#8221; His comments came at the end of a testy exchange with Charlamagne Tha God on &#8216;The Breakfast Club.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uG4l7F4piD\">https:\/\/t.co\/uG4l7F4piD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1263848939465445379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media misrepresents black opinion, as seen in their portrayal of the recent Supreme Court ruling against race-based university admissions. Polls reveal that black Americans are actually supportive of the decision. This biased pattern of misrepresentation by the predominantly white press corps consistently favors one perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":1971242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}