Backdroppings
They say that eleven o’clock Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America, but I disagree. That distinction belongs to any hour, say, that Barack Obama is giving one of his speeches. At least that’s the impression one gets from the TV. Although there’s a wide variety of people who are drawn to these transcendent moments in the History of the Universe, the smaller groups of people arranged to stand behind him during his rallies are almost always white. Why is that? Why isn’t there more often a more diverse and proportionately represented group of people in camera shot with him?
I think it’s got something to do with manipulating the country through people-scenery for the news. Everything’s a prop if the stakes are high enough.
