Racism in America continues to spread because the media fails to face it

Rather than addressing racism as what it is, the media uses euphemisms like "divisive" and "controversial" rather than admitting what it is.

The issue of the media dodging and whitewashing racist comments and acts as merely “divisive” and “controversial” was highlighted to me in an article by Dan Froomkin.

Our top newsrooms are too timid to go there, however. Racism, especially when it comes to calling specific people or practices racist, has long been the third rail of journalism. Newsroom l…