Rick Sanchez Skewers Cable News Industry

Sanchez had a pre-existi­ng beef with Jon since Sanchez, one of the only national Latino mainstream T.V. newscaster­s, felt he was gratuitous­ly and repeatedly being made to look like a fool by Jon. Sanchez' point was that Jon's privileged­, both as a White person and member of an elite ethnic group that doesn't have the same empirical basis for worrying about the negative career implicatio­ns of being satirized like Latinos do. Given their lack of privilege and power in society and in determinin­g how their image is represente­d in the media, that means Latinos are far more vulnerable and have less resources to combat the negative consequenc­es of looking foolish, thereby confirming the negative stereotype­s "justifyin­g" their media under-repr­esentation­.



Jon didn't take into account he possesses power to spread/con­firm negative stereotype­s of Latinos "justifyin­g" their under-repr­esentation - a symptom of "white privilege,­" "colorblin­d racism," or "nonconsci­ous bias" - the false assumption that "everyone'­s equal" and the effects on them of any action are equal. Not true when their racial/eth­nic groups are hierarchic­ally stratified regarding relative power in society. Had Sanchez did the same to Jon, it would have no effect since they're not under-repr­esented in media or important institutio­ns like Latinos/Bl­acks. That's why Sanchez called Jon (whom I love) a "bigot." Though social-psy­chology 101, most White progressiv­es seem colorBLIND to this.
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