Were they racist or were they liars?
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.
Were the women getting unclothed for the photo shoot, or was that the way they walked around? Were the tribesman civilized and intelligent?
For example, in a 1916 article about Australia, the caption on a photo of two Aboriginal people read: “South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human beings.”
Did they? Were they feigning low intelligence, or was Nat Geo lying?
In National Geographic’s April issue, Goldberg, who identified herself as National Geographic’s first woman and first Jewish editor, wrote a letter titled “For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It.”
So no more photo expeditions uncovering tribesmen living deep in the jungles in far away lands? Why? Would that be racist? It won’t be if you lie and say they have high IQs.
“I knew when we looked back there would be some storytelling that we obviously would never do today, that we don’t do and we’re not proud of,” she told AP. “But it seemed to me if we want to credibly talk about race, we better look and see how we talked about race.”
Nat Geo is interested in their new truth, a version based on their agenda. It will skew every story through their current political lens. How is this any different than what they say the old Nat Geo was?
Making sure that kind of coverage never happens again should be paramount, Husni said. “Trying to integrate the magazine media with more hiring of diverse writers and minorities in the magazine field is how we apologize for the past,” Husni said.
Goldberg said, “So we need photographers who are African-American and Native American because they are going to capture a different truth and maybe a more accurate story.”
Maybe.
ht/ wait for it
We dropped our subscription 35 years ago, not because of their past racism, but because of their incessant political correctness. Looks like the best indicator of future performance is STILL past performance.
I dropped them a couple years ago due to the heavy dose of global warming propaganda.
I was a 30 yr subscriber.
They don’t talk about their muzzie love either do they.
Fuck them, die.
“These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human beings.”
They obviously haven’t been to Baltimore or Chicago in recent years.
“So we need photographers who are African-American and Native American…”.
Because after centuries of photography, its been determined Caucasian’s suddenly lost the ability to capture people of color as authentic in their native habitats.
And to complete the agenda, colorized photography is out as well.
I wonder if they’ll sponsor a “Buyback” Program for their
hurtful past editions… Erasing History is Chic.
NatGeo, Smithso, AmSci, SciAm, all gone into the PC waste bin.
They wonder how to increase subscriptions, all the while, insulting half the country.
There are not enough “cool people” to keep the lights on folks.
It was wrong of them to not publish photo’s of the aboriginal skyscrapers, super highways and sophisticated communication systems. And to keep their successful moon landing hidden is just disgraceful.
A Dan in 1950 is still a Dan today. They never learn.
Pandering to the profligate has never proven wise for commerce.
They’ve surrendered any relevance they have left.
Hell, no one goes to the library anymore, they’re too busy playing candy crush on their phone.
P.C. is creating regressive, idiotic, uncivilized world.
I fear for the quality of life to come for my grand daughters.
I guess they will be doing more stories on Wakanda now
“People of color were often scantily clothed, people of color were usually not seen in cities, people of color were not often surrounded by technologies of automobiles, airplanes or trains or factories,” he said. “People of color 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.”
– Because Al Gore didn’t invent the internet, Robert Mugabe did! You know how good your car and cell phone work in central African shitholes? And remember the great export power of 20th century South American and African manufacturing juggernauts? – Me neither. Were the people they pictured living as their ancestors lived just studio shots? Did NG perpetuate a false reality by sending film crews to equatorial nations to build complex sets in jungles and construct costumes for all of these people? Finally I thought these people were living in HARMONY with nature which is noble and modern man is killing the world and that is evil. BTW – Remember the great photos of brown people living in cities during the run-up to the summer Olympics in Brazil, I am good without seeing shitholes.
The Kreen Akore are a stone-age people living in contemporary South America.
Does Natty Geo pretend that it is “racist” to notify the world of their existence?
Is it “racist” to show the Masai and Kikuyu of Eastern Africa in their traditional garb?
Fuck off.
izlamo delenda est …
Nowadays, it’ll be not brown and black women with breasts bared, but brown and black men with their pants at their knees.
I still have a soft spot in my heart for Nat Geo. They were the only sex education we had in
Jr. High. I didn’t even know breasts came in any colors other than black until high school.
But that’s another story.
🙂