This raises a question, of whether the media reflects society or re-creates its own world? Were the minorities represented on TV because the American society had invited them to the ceremony, or the media made an extra effort to represent minorities on television? On inauguration day, the above scenarios were applicable. And we got coverage that reflected diversity in the American society.
I was watching the inauguration of Barack Obama with friends. The comments made were not the ones I usually get when we have such a time. It started when they saw a black American boy. One of them said "... a a! bona ngwananya.... a ke setlogolo sa ga Obama? (see the little boy, is he Obama's nephew) Next was "...a! bona bo magogo (mosadimogolo)... (see the old woman)" Later it was "a a! leba diwheel chair ba ile le bone" (are those in wheel chairs attending too) The other one said "go riana batho bantsho ba bantsi jaana kwa Amerika mama? (By the way, are there so many black people in America). Their comments were destructing me and I asked them to stop as one of them was saying "le ma 14 baitse sengwe ka President" (do teenagers know anything about the presidency?)
