I'd also want to make a distinction between the right-wing media, which often peddles racist undertones, and conservatives.
What about the liberal media, which seems to have a clear, engrained bias against white people? How many horrendous black on white crimes get ignored in favor of bullshit like Tawana Brawley and Trayvon Martin? And what about liberal programs like affirmative action and quotas which are "reverse racism" against whites?
Red herring. One giant red herring.
For starters, I don't know what media you're watching (the "liberal" media is more the sensationalism media), but the one I watch is hardly biased against white people. The fact that you bring up Trayvon Martin, to me, shows you misunderstanding the heart of the issue, and the facts of how racist our legal system is - overall.
Also, I'd say you should make a distinction between someones personal motivations, and the actual effects of their actions, and the legislation they might pass. Someone could do something technically bigotted, etc, but the reason for that may not be bigotry, but ignorance, humor, etc.*edit* If you see the definition of bigotry, it's not doing something in a prejudiced manner, it's more, not dealing with your own prejudices if and when you overcome them.
It's absurd that I would even have to bring that up, but I think the point stands that it is possible to be a liberal (at least a self-identifying one) and a bigot. And if you look at most of the early progressives (John Maynard Keynes, Margaret Sanger, George Bernard Shaw, William Beveridge, Marie Stopes etc.) they were all ardent racists and eugenicists.
I just linked to the
current definition of liberal, and am accurately pointing out that you are
not a liberal if you are bigoted, and it doesn't matter if you "self-identify" as one. If I get married, I cant' still "self-identify" as a bachelor, nor still be considered a bachelor. If you want to argue for a different definition of liberal, I'm all ears, but what seems more absurd to me is to so blissfully ignore the definition of a word.