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Duck Dynasty, however, I don’t want to talk about him but about how the news media covered the story. I don’t know if you noticed but all the headlines had about his statement on homosexuality but there were no headlines that said anything about his racist comments. For me that was more offensive than what he said about sexual orientation.

They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’ — not a word! … Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.”

Business Insider said in the article There Are Two Americas, And One Is Better Than The Other by
Josh Barro

In one America, it's OK to say this of gays and lesbians: "They’re full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, God-haters. They are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil." In the other America, you're not supposed to say that.

There's one America where it's OK to say this about black people in the Jim Crow-era South: "Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues." There's another America where that statement is considered to reflect ignorance and insensitivity.

In one America, it's OK to attribute the Pearl Harbor attacks to Shinto Buddhists' failure to accept Jesus. In the other America, that is not OK.

I am of the part that finds it reflecting ignorance and insensitive, it is from a perspective of white privilege, and it reeks of dominance.

So why do you think the news media headlines were all about sexual orientation? Why was it about “the gays?” Why was it not about racism and religious intolerance?

My theory is that the gays are an easy target; the news media is all about controversy and selling ads. I think that many people do not think that racism is a problem today; we solved that problem back in the sixties; even though racism is just as prevalent now as it was back then but now it is just more covert. Religious intolerance, the news media doesn’t even want to go there; that topic is way too controversial the news media, they likes to stir up bee’s nest but they don’t want to antagonize the sleeping bear. So they pick on the easy target… gays.