Blog post #4

Berger presents some ideas about how publishers and newspapers reached out to “white people” readers. He claimed that the white press used images of black people as victims and not as people defending their rights. However, these photographs, far from demonstrating the skill of the blacks, only served to feed the ego of the whites. For the press, it was easier to expose blacks as victims, thus alleviating the racial anxiety of whites. I agree with Berger that it was easier for the press to harm blacks because whites oppressed them. These kinds of violent images gave whites the power to treat blacks however they wanted. However, blacks have stood out as people who have always fought for their rights. They have always wanted to be treated as part of society, not by their skin color.