I am interested in this topic because at a young age I've been concerned with the problem of racism and how it ties in today in our society. While looking at the topic, it seems to me that the news continuously biases their information to provide a status quo on how we stereotype various minority groups. In terms of being racially discriminated against, I don't have a personal experience. However, I feel like because the news media racially discriminates against minority groups, it makes it seem that all people in the "white" supremacy group are racist. To me, it is important to understand that racism is still alive and prevalent in today's society and it is a huge problem. We've seen a lot of racial problems in the news these past couple of years, for example the riots in Baltimore and the mass killing that we saw in Charleston, South Carolina. This research topic affects me and my values because it is important to understand how racism is still being sought out today, not just in day to day experiences, but in the media for all people to see. In regards to me being qualified to write about this topic, I am not. I've never been racially discriminated against, mainly because I am not a part of a minority group. Yet, this is what makes me credible on this topic in a sense, because from an outside stand point, my outlook on the situation is unbiased. 

1. The central claim in this article is that the media is responsible for sustaining African Americans as second class citizens, relating actions such as crime, violence and drug use with their everyday lives. The main piece of evidence that was supported in this article was the Rodney King trial. In 1991, Rodney King was severely beaten by four white cops and their reason behind this was because they felt "threatened". This supporting the claim that the news media still biases their information against minority groups, such as African Americans. Due to how the media portrays minority groups, we are taught how to judge and automatically assume certain stereotypes to certain racial backgrounds. 

2. This article gives a few specific examples on how the media biases their information to project racial profiling and stereotyping within their information. The article also gives data and statistics that prove that while the media projects minority groups as second class citizens, they aren't. 

3. Stephen Balkaran is a professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Central Connecticut State University. This author is a credible source in this field because not only is he African American, but he is an expert in the field of African American relations within topics such as the media. 

1. The central claim of this article is that the media is crucially important in how we see the norms of today's society. They reinforce our values and they show us what happens to people if they don't abide by the status quo. They also teach us how we see people of different races.  

2. This article shows how the media projects racial views on people that belong to a minority group. The article gives a specific example of a study that was done that found how people automatically associate people of a minority group with negative connotations. 

3. This author is credible in this topic because she dedicates all of her studies to this topic. The author could have bias in this topic because she belongs to a minority group.

The central claim of this article is that the media, just like in the past, group minority races as a problem. The media tends to talk about people in minority groups as "them" instead of "us". The article only really gives one piece of evidence, that certain journalist have recognized the problem and have come together to do something about this problem.

The major interest of this article is to show that people in journalism that are in the news media are aware of this problem and that they are trying to do something about this reoccurring problem. Most of my articles are arguing that this keeps happening in today's society, but this article proves that people in this occupation are aware of the racial profiling that is happening.

This author is an expert in the field of text and linguistics. This proves that he is a credible source for my paper because he is a scholar in language and how it is perceived and conceived, which is what my topic specifically argues.

This topic is arguable due to the variation in how people perceive the media. However, I'm not implying that this happens on a daily basis on every single news program, but it does happen and it is something that people should take more seriously. I tend to agree with the majority of what my sources point out and say. It's hard for me to disagree with what these authors of these sources are saying because this happens more than it should. The only thing that has changed my outlook on this topic is my third source because it proves that people in journalism and in the media are aware of this problem and that they are doing something to stop it from happening. To revise my topic question, I might want to look at why this problem happens, as well as how it happens. It is important to understand how the media pushes racial profiles upon their viewers, but if possible, if I could find why this happens it would provide more evidence to my research question.  

