NBC complaint: Racist Reporting

In light of this siege of the Capital building, and in particular, the response by law enforcement as opposed to how the police responded to Black Lives Matter protestors last summer, I’m writing to convey a point about racist reporting and why racism is continually perpetuated in this country.
The incident where the white woman attacked the black teenager about what she thought was him stealing her phone; I’ve seen this report on every major network in the city: ABC, NBC, Fox, and CBS, and it was consistent throughout every one of them, without deviation: The woman who attacked the BLACK teenager over what she thought was her stolen iPhone.
So, I’m thinking (although I know the answer, but…) what color is the woman? You mentioned the color of the teenager, but not once do you mention the color of the woman. And it’s consistent throughout the networks, which let’s me know that it’s deliberate. Because the woman’s race is never mentioned, we’re to assume that she’s white. So a white person is the norm, whereas his or her race need not be mentioned, but the black person is not the norm, and need to be labeled andor pointed out. So the black person is thus labeled not regular, or not the standard or normal.
This type of reporting continues to perpetuate the thinking that black people are less than normal, or are substandard.
Now, one might think that this is not a big deal; however, it sends a very subtle, subconscious message that black people are not the norm, and are inferior to regular people. This type of thinking is what leads our police departments to treat one group of people one way, while treating another a totally different way.
Now, I love Darlene Rodriguez very much. She’s one of the reasons I watch NBC. But she continually mentioned this report about the woman who attacked the BLACK teenager. I don’t think Darlene Rodriguez is racist. She’s a person of color herself, and I assume that she was just reading the teleer. But each time I heard it, I began to cringe. It’s racist reporting that I know goes back years and years to when black people were terribly depicted in the media. But it has to stop, because it continues to perpetuate racism in this country.