Racist suspect media outlets are angry [HERE] and [HERE] that a guest on Joy Reid's MSNBC talk show actually had the courage to talk about reality by briefly discussing racism/white supremacy. Mychal Denzel Smith, a Black writer from the Nation magazine, in the context of a discussion about Ferguson said that the US was founded on a system of white supremacy. Nothing really mind blowing here but still this is not what most white folks want us talking about. 

The White elite owned media controls what you consume in order to try to control what you think and do. A major goal of the media is to make White dominance and control over everything seem natural. Black people live under the power of the white supremacy system implying the absence of any true power to determine ultimately what happens to their individual and collective lives. This is the major problem facing Black and Brown people. [MORE] Nevertheless, in this system of racism nothing is the way it should be and the phrase racism/white supremacy is rarely even whispered in the media. In the video above, Joy Reid does not indulge Smith on the issue that Blacks must confront in order to produce justice for ourselves - in spite of our programming. 

The following are Amos Wilson's ideas on the subject from [HERE]: 

Ideological Processes of Afrikan-centered Opposition

The foregoing discussion only hints at the social-political construc­tion and power of the White-owned and -controlled media/establish­ment system, a system founded on political and economic oppression and exploitation of the masses in general and of Afrikan peoples in particular. In the aftermath of that discussion we need not belabor the need for an aggressive Black-owned and -controlled countercultural media information network. However, to counter the propagandistic White media/establishment the Black media information network must be supported and financed by Black-owned businesses which in turn must be primarily supported by Black consumers. The Black press today is not a free or powerful press because it lacks these necessary supporting pillars. The more "successful" and wealthy the Black media become, meaning the more they are financed by White-owned corporate advertising, the less free and weaker they become. Fear of incurring the disapproval of their White advertisers effectively prevents them from providing their audiences with truthful, critically astute and informative analyses of the nature of White domination. Forget their providing a detailed political-scientific, political-eco­nomic, social-scientific, historical/cultural education to their audi­ences: an education which would revolutionize their consciousness and prescribe the practical means for overthrowing their oppressors and exploiters. This media fears becoming the focal establishment for politically, socially and economically organizing a truly nationalistic Black American community.

If an Afrikan-centered liberation movement is to be successful it must rescue the collective Afrikan mind and soul from the clutches of Eurocentric and non-Afrocentric ideology. Such a movement must organize itself for a struggle to the death against the continuing internalization of self-defeating, self-destructive ideas by Afrikan peoples. It must unite these peoples around the ideology of Afrocentr-ism and inculcate within their breasts a life-saving, life-giving, liberating, Afrikan-centered consciousness and identity. It must incite the peoples to new self-knowledge, to the discovery and development of creative, operative strategies, social relations and arrangements; new values and visions with which they will break asunder — forever — the shackles of White supremacy. These ends can only be attained if the Afrocentric movement goes on the ideological offensive with an overpowering vengeance. [MORE]