Is CNN’s Black In America A Sideshow?

...Last year’s Black In America series drew almost 16 million viewers (for perspective, the Sopranos finale drew just under 12 million viewers), and the CNN website drew nearly 15 million unique visitors. According to Mark Nelson, vice president and senior executive producer at CNN Productions, black viewership “increased almost 900 percent.” So how is one to think that CNN is any different in this regard than this network?

At this point, the answer to what it’s like to be Black in America is no longer relevant.

A far more interesting question would be, “In 2009, what is it like to be White in America?” To wit:

•Look at our current president, who provides a slight deviation from the prior 43.
•White people buy more rap albums than any other demographic. Why?
•White people were also the core audience of the Chappelle Show, a hugely popular racially-charged sitcom. Why?
•More and more multi-ethnic people in higher places.
•Slavery took place hundreds of years ago, yet, there are still angry blacks who will never approve of them, no matter how benevolent they are. How do white people deal with that?
•Gun sales have spiked since Obama went into office, over 450 percent.
•Views like this, while at once widespread, are considered anachronistic. Or are they?
•The Rush Limbaughs of the world are now opposed by a large voice of progressives liberals, something unheard of when there were governors were brazenly spouting this stuff.

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