The Ethnic Nepotist

Growing up in an African-American community, the most prominent ethnic press that comes to mind is Jet magazine. Neither of my parents consumed news from this source, in fact I can’t recall my parents consuming much press from any angle. Both were from the baby-boomer era and were one of 10-plus children born to large farming families on the East Coast.
My mother, Caucasian, migrated from her ancestral home of Centre County Pennsylvania — where he family has resided for centuries after crossing the Atlantic ocean from London, England — to the rural coastal plains of the North Carolina eastern seaboard, where my father, African-American, and his ancestors have resided since the country’s independence.
As I myself have migrated to the West coast, the presence of ethnic media outlets and their role in disseminating homogeneous, American information into the expanding and seemingly impregnable first-generation immigrant community and their subsequent constituents is ever more present.
As in the case of Abraham Lincoln, the need to reach constituents within an electorate is inseparable from political campaigns. In the Information Age, this fact is ever more crucial to the future of the political process.