Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The legend of the persecuted white guy

Salon News
by David Sirota

"The Beached White Male" -- this bellowing cover headline from the new issue of Newsweek is only the latest installation of the most resilient parable in American cultural mythology: The Legend of the Persecuted White Guy.This narrative has been part of the media mix for the larger part of the last few decades, from the 1980s when it was alleged that civil rights initiatives (affirmative action, busing, etc.) were persecuting whites, to the last decade which lamented whites as "America's forgotten majority," to the present political moment in which the first African-American president is accused of caring only about his fellow minorities and harboring "a deep seated hatred of white people."

Full Story: http://www.salon.com/news/media_criticism/?story=/politics/war_room/2011/04/18/legend_of_persecuted_white_guy

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