The Black Pathology Biz.

Black pathology is big business. Two-thirds of teenage mothers are white, two-thirds of welfare recipients are white and white youth commit most of the crime in this country. Yet in the popular imagination blacks are blamed for all the criminal activities. Now that network news shows have become "profit centers," news producers have found a lucrative market in exhibiting black pathology, while coverage of pathologies such as drug addiction, child abuse, spousal battering and crime among whites and their "model minorities" is negligible. When it comes to singling out blacks as the cause of America's social problems, National Broadcasting Company and Cable News Network are the worst offenders.