I'm Becoming Disillusioned

I get my news articles from a variety of sources, and when the quality of these news sources becomes flaky, I tend to cast that source off and never deal with them.

That's why I'm saddened to find myself seeing poorer and poorer quality reporting coming from CNN.

Here's a perfect example:

CNN's been promoting this whole "Black in America" series for a while now, and to tell you the truth, it's done nothing but turn me off.

I think the only real reason why they are doing it is because of the Presidential election.

I've even seen a few episodes of these "news" stories, and I've got to tell you, I'm not impressed.

People that they've been interviewing have no special problems that any other American of a different color face. It comes across like some folks I knew back in the 90's who'd blame everyone else for their problems but themselves. "It's because I'm a BLACK man that X is happening to me".

Yeah....that's it.

Look, certainly racism exists, but it exists across the entire spectrum of color of people's skin. I can go to certain parts of the country and get looked upon with disdain because I am white.

I blame no one for my problems, but myself. Do you know why?

Because I'm the only one that can fix them.

Sure, I COULD blame others, but what have I accomplished? What good does it do me to blame black people, Jewish people, Hispanic folks, or any other group of people for my ills when they clearly don't have anything to do with them?

It's all in an attempt to bring to the surface, racial tensions for ratings.

That's not news, it's CNN.

We as a nation have become the most powerful in the history of the world for a reason. We worked together. We encouraged others to come here and build a life for themselves and their families. We did it regardless of race, religion, creed, or financial status. We can and will do more.

Which is why Obama is wrong.

It's not "Yes we can". It's "Yes, YOU can.".

"Change" begins and ends at home. Start with yourself, work on making your life and the lives of your family better. Once that's fine, then worry about your neighbor. Get involved in your community, tutor a child, volunteer at a school, help out your elderly neighbor get around.

Make your immediate life better, and the rest will fall into place.


Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com