Does public radio sound too ‘white’? NPR itself tries to find the answer.

[jmyrlefuller]

NPR itself suggested Thursday that the answer might be yes in an unusual bit of public self-examination. In a commentary aired on “All Things Considered,” its signature newscast, and in a subsequent Twitter chat that quickly trended nationally, the public radio network lit the fuse on an explosive discussion about how a broadcast should sound.

The commentary came from Chenjerai Kumanyika, an African American who is an assistant professor of communication studies at Clemson University and a radio producer. Kumanyika’s “All Things Considered” piece left no doubt about his point of view: It was titled “Challenging the Whiteness of Public Radio.”

excerpted from The Washington Post, full article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/does-public-radio-sound-too-white-npr-itself-tries-to-find-the-answer/2015/01/30/f08f58cc-a899-11e4-a06b-9df2002b86a0_story.html?wpmk=MK0000203&tid=sm_tw

[Oceander]

 

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Maybe we should all imitate the apeish behavior of Black people.
Maybe we should all start talking with a Black accent.
 
We should all just become Black. That would make everything 'fair'.
 
We should all drop out of school, start selling drugs, and shooting our neighbors in the head. We should all be Black. Screw actual accomplishment or vocabulary, we need to take the White man down, while he is still being taken by what be what he be being.
 
(Whiteness) is not 'fair'. We have to do away with it.

[Free Vulcan]

[kevindavis007]

Maybe we should get rid of the npr.