Media and tech are programming us to be distracted and divided, but campaigning and organising gives us hope for change, writes Lester Holloway.NEGATIVE STORIES are bad for your mental health. I guess you knew that instinctively. Yet it is easy to forget as we consume wave after wave of bad news.
As a lifelong campaigner for more racial diversity in the media, we are beginning to see change. But not all of it is positive. The justification for this is that it is important to expose racism and give voice to those hitting out against the injustice. Yet such articles rarely contribute to fixing the system. What they do is depress their audience into believing that systemic racism is so overwhelmingly endemic that there is nothing we can do.
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