A significant confession. Good to see a publication examining its own past first.

Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette

National Geographic acknowledges its own past, promoting scientific racism worldwide. Like the time it wrote about South African society in the 1960s.

“National Geographic’s story barely mentions any problems,” Mason said. “There are no voices of black South Africans. That absence is as important as what is in there. The only black people are doing exotic dances … servants or workers. It’s bizarre, actually, to consider what the editors, writers, and photographers had to consciously not see.”

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/from-the-editor-race-racism-history/