The
purpose was not only to keep up with current events, but to study the
diction and grammar of the anchors.
As a 60's baby, it was exciting
to watch television and see the faces of people who looked like you,
particularly if they were in leadership roles.
It meant that there were
possibilities.
Many have joked about it, but it was nothing to hear
someone in the neighborhood screaming out of a window, "Black people
on TV!!!"
Then and now, representation, and those who represent well,
really matters.
There goes that unrelated, fictive, kinship thing again.
Some
people instill so much pride; they're like an institution; you're
honored to meet them; and when they die, the loss you feel is genuine. You feel
it as if you knew them.
RIP, Jim Vance.
News 4 won't be the same.
*sigh*
#representationmatters
#journalismmatters
#IHateCancer
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