nickg
05-13-2003, 09:17 AM
only white people should have mug shots i guess!!
:rolleyes:
Those Wacky Berkeley Kids
The kids at the University of California in Berkeley are at it again, this time directing their ire at the student paper there, the Daily Californian, for a couple of misdeeds.
First, the Californian reports, a group of black students crammed its offices complaining that it had the nerve to publish a picture of a black football player accused of fracturing a student’s skull with a bottle. The students said that by running the picture, the paper was perpetuating a negative, stereotypical image of American Americans. ( :rolleyes: )
"Very easily something as simple as a picture gets translated in public mind as a mug shot because of the historic criminalization of African-American males," said UC Berkeley alumnus David Philoxene, a reader for an African American studies class.
The students want a front-page apology and a mugshot of the reporter on the front page as penance. They did not say whether the alleged crime itself might contribute to the perpetuation of negative, stereotypical images of African Americans.
Another group of students was irked by an editorial cartoon of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. They complained that the image was a "racist, anti-Asian caricature ... drawn with slanted, virtually non-existent eyes, jutting teeth, and an upturned, pig-like nose—a mimicry of the bigoted xenophobic anti-Japanese cartoons of World War II."
In an editors note about the issues, editor-in-chief Rong-Gong Lin, II made no apologies for either of two transgressions.
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:rolleyes:
Those Wacky Berkeley Kids
The kids at the University of California in Berkeley are at it again, this time directing their ire at the student paper there, the Daily Californian, for a couple of misdeeds.
First, the Californian reports, a group of black students crammed its offices complaining that it had the nerve to publish a picture of a black football player accused of fracturing a student’s skull with a bottle. The students said that by running the picture, the paper was perpetuating a negative, stereotypical image of American Americans. ( :rolleyes: )
"Very easily something as simple as a picture gets translated in public mind as a mug shot because of the historic criminalization of African-American males," said UC Berkeley alumnus David Philoxene, a reader for an African American studies class.
The students want a front-page apology and a mugshot of the reporter on the front page as penance. They did not say whether the alleged crime itself might contribute to the perpetuation of negative, stereotypical images of African Americans.
Another group of students was irked by an editorial cartoon of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. They complained that the image was a "racist, anti-Asian caricature ... drawn with slanted, virtually non-existent eyes, jutting teeth, and an upturned, pig-like nose—a mimicry of the bigoted xenophobic anti-Japanese cartoons of World War II."
In an editors note about the issues, editor-in-chief Rong-Gong Lin, II made no apologies for either of two transgressions.
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for more PC stupidity go here:
<a href="http://www.tonguetied.us/" target="_blank">http://www.tonguetied.us/</a>