The Culture of Fear -- Chunk 3

Barry Glasner's "The Culture of Fear" talks about how Americans fear black men, illegal drugs, and plane wrecks. He talks about how people think that black people involved in crimes is so common that sometimes they wont put it in the news because its boring. Glassner also mentions how people are ignorant as to say that blacks are anti-semetic because they are anti-white. How the media will keep pounding on a little thing that a black person does wrong, but when a white person does the same or worse it just goes by unnoticed. For example how rap music has a lot of violence in the lyrics. How it talks about people killing others, but when country music says violent things it just gets ignored. He also gives facts proving that heroin is making a comeback. How it is now a middle-class drug. He also proves wron the idea that airplane crashes are a common thing. "The average person's probability of dying in an air crash is about 1 in 4 million, or roughly the same as winning the jackpot in a state lottery." Glassner must set the facts straight in order for Americans to see the truth and so they can prepare for what is really causing us harm.
Vocabulary: None
Tone: Sarcastic, Informative, Corrective
Discussion Questions: Does fearing the wrong thing really harm America?
If you could chose one problem to be compltetely eradicated from society which problem would you chose and why?