[All] National Geographic admits to sexism and racism. HUGE breakthrough

[Lanteigne]

Hi folks
Go to this link and read it. This will blow your socks off. 
National Geographic went public and they admit the following: 
An investigation conducted last fall by University of Virginia photography historian John Edwin Mason showed that until the 1970s, it virtually ignored people of colour in the United States who were not domestics or labourers, and it reinforced repeatedly the idea that people of colour from foreign lands were "exotics, famously and frequently unclothed, happy hunters, noble savages — every type of cliché."

White teenage boys "could count on every issue or two of National Geographic having some brown skin bare breasts for them to look at, and I think editors at National Geographic knew that was one of the appeals of their magazine, because women, especially Asian women from the pacific islands, were photographed in ways that were almost glamour shots."

"People of colour were often pictured as living as if their ancestors might have lived several hundreds of years ago and that's in contrast to westerners who are always fully clothed and often carrying technology."

Please read the whole thing. They influenced public perception about Indigenous people for generation and this legacy of racism influenced environmental policy and how treaty rights, human rights and land management issues failed to respect the Indigenous cultures around the world. 
It is a huge breakthrough to finally open the path for meaningful and respectful coverage! 
Lulu 

National Geographic acknowledges past racist coverage


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National Geographic acknowledges past racist coverage

​National Geographic acknowledged on Monday that it covered the world through a racist lens for generations, wit...
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