Mushmouth
03-13-2018, 05:33 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — National Geographic acknowledged on Monday that it covered the world through a racist lens for generations, with its magazine portrayals of bare-breasted women and naive brown-skinned tribesmen as savage, unsophisticated and unintelligent.
“We had to own our story to move beyond it,” editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg told The Associated Press in an interview about the yellow-bordered magazine’s April issue, which is devoted to race.
https://apnews.com/52098332431c4ef1be3046487451684e/National-Geographic-acknowledges-past-racist-coverage
“We had to own our story to move beyond it,” editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg told The Associated Press in an interview about the yellow-bordered magazine’s April issue, which is devoted to race.
https://apnews.com/52098332431c4ef1be3046487451684e/National-Geographic-acknowledges-past-racist-coverage