Black leftist candidates received drastically less media coverage than mainstream white candidates.

Evidence

“It’s part of a conspiracy to prevent us from getting our message to the people,” she said, sitting at a table with undistributed press packets. “If Ronald Reagan were holding a press conference here you wouldn’t have been able to see anything for blocks, there would have been so much press here.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1076

Categorization

• CANDY: Davis’s image of Reagan’s hypothetical press conference flooding the block is a vivid, tweetable snapshot of media bias.
• XREF: connects to: Red-baiting black candidates backfired when Atlanta’s white elite closed ranks — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 98