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RSS FeedsShree Paradkar: National Geographic´s reckoning on racism is a big deal. And that´s a problem
(The Star Food)

 
 

15 march 2018 21:33:42

 
Shree Paradkar: National Geographic´s reckoning on racism is a big deal. And that´s a problem
(The Star Food)
 


The news, of course, is not that the coverage of people in the National Geographic was racist. It is that the magazine is acknowledging it.It’s a headline-grabber that has been lauded variously for its honesty, for not shrinking away from using the word “racist” rather than other euphemisms mainstream media conjure up, and for moving towards correction.It’s a big deal. That is a problem, because this giant leap in journalism is a small but long overdue step in the march of progress.Black people and Indigenous people around the world – thinkers, academics, writers, poets, lawyers, ordinary folks — have been actively resisting racism and colonialism in the course of the National Geographic’s 130-year history.But it’s only now, 18 years into the new millennia, that the needle of change has whizzed all the way from denial to...a baby first step. One magazine, a leader in the North American media that is otherwise rife with racial insensitivities and non-representational staff, has devoted an issue to race and is acknowledging that yes, it has been racist.What the National Geographic did was news because it’s an information source of such reach and authority that its imperialist gaze trained the rest of the world through its to see itself as relational to whiteness or its colonial rulers.Susan Goldberg, the magazine’s new editor in chief, said in her note that “it hurts to share the appalling stories from the magazine’s past.”Introspection and the realization of being complicit in wrongdoing are indeed excruciatingly painful – but they pale in comparison to the harms inflicted on those who have been wronged.Change is never easy.Even in its earnestness to set the record straight, the magazine went awry in its cover piece depicting mixed-race twins. “Marcia and Millie Biggs say they’ve never been subjected to racism”, says the intro to the story. What could be the ques ...


 
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