“Birth of a Nation” was one of the films that started the negative perception of black men in films. Black men are not fully represented by society and portray themselves as invisible. Black men suffer from invisibility syndrome (Green 1998). “Invisibility syndrome” is the repeated racial offending that can manifest in racially adaptive behaviors for African-American men as they attempt to manage racism.” The study concludes that Black men see being invisible as a burden and force Black men to see America as very racialized (Franklin, 1999). The stereotypes of Sambo and Jim Crow have transformed black men into this one-dimensional hybrid racial equality. The popular MTV (Music Television Network) program called "The Real World" repeatedly shows black men as angry, violent and sexually aggressive through the use of coded messages. On March 7, 1998, Real World titled one of the episodes “Most Dangerous.” The episode centered on the black male cast member portrayed as a politically radical or black revolutionary (Orbe, 1998). The words radical and black revolutionary are coded messages that symbolize the wild and angry black man. The real world also used nonverbal coding by repeatedly showing a Malcolm X poster to establish the troublemaker label (Orbe, 1998). In the Los Angeles season “The Real World Show” introduces the potential of black men to turn to violence. Several cast members expressed their discomfort with black men. From the beginning the white cast members had a preconceived notion of black men. These preconceived notions about Black men amplified into conflict and developed into a scary situation despite the Black cast member identifying as a comedian (Orbe, 1998). The New York season filmed by Real World with... middle of paper... n age, presents them as threatening and thus appears to justify some forms of violence used against them. No one in the United States today would give police the authority to shoot unarmed civilians without fear of recrimination or public investigation, even if it promoted law and order, but that is the justification sometimes given for the infamous stop -demand-and- program frisk in New York City” (Adams & Govender, 2008). Moore's death was underreported, due to George Zimmerman's death of Trayvon Martin. The media fails to report Moore, because it would increase the already intense racial narrative related to the shooting of Trayvon Martin (Adams & Govender, 2008). The shooting of unarmed black men continues the narrative expressed in “The Birth of a Nation” that black men must be controlled through violence (Adams & Govender, 2008).