Hartnett Racist Image Analysis

The stereotype’s the media love to circulate is directly affects me in many ways of my day to day life. I get judged by the way I look, dress and talk. Often I get mistaking for some thief or criminal. As the police will like to say I “fit the description”. Furthermore, Hartnett, adds: “creating a perception in viewers that black men are violent or intimidating. Over time, this pattern means that viewers com to chronically access stereotypical narratives about and images of black men, hence creating a foundation of racist thinking.” (18). I agree with Hartnett’s analogy that more and more people are not hiding their racist views any more. For the evidence to that look no farther than the republican presidential front runner Donald Trump and