National Geographic acknowledges past racist coverage

AP ^ | March 12, 2018 | Jesse J. Holland

[Don Corleone]

Before Playboy was Playboy.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

My memories of the SEARS catalog was the models wore black leotards with underwear on the outside of them.

[GingisK]

So now we can depend on NG to show the world like someone else would like us to believe?

I dumped NG years ago.

[VietVet876]

I have no friends left from the ‘80’s so I don’t know but suspect that many of them voted for the Kenyan muslim at least once. Liberal elite born and bred in Baltimore mostly.

[elcid1970]

The best Nat Geo years for bare bosoms were between 1920 and 1950. Balinese girls were the most beautiful, along with Polynesian women.

Nothing exploitative about it; these women were in their natural state, though it has been said that the only difference between Nat Geo & Playboy is that brown breasts are less sinful than white ones.

;^)

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#2: "The tribesmen are still savage and unintelligent."

You don't even have to travel to exotic locales to study them.
 

[luvbach1]

National Geographic never struck me as racist. Who knew!?

[50sDad]

Western Culture is EEEEEEEEVIL and you should feel bad!

[50sDad]

Western Culture is EEEEEEEEVIL and you should feel bad!

[longfellow]

They’re calling the magazine BET now.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

“Torpedo t1ts”

[myerson]

Was National Geographic lying then, or are they lying now?

[vetvetdoug]

National Geographic was published for years in the US in Corinth, Mississippi. About 20 years ago they moved their printing operations overseas because it was cheaper. NG can go bankrupt for all I care as they are hypocrites.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

Shouldn’t they be wearing animal skins and the like?

I am now 10% dumber after reading your post.

[cherry]

we can not allow the truth to be known....that we still have backwards, low IQ tribal people living on earth here in good old 2018.....

[dead]

I always thought it was racist when I was a kid. Black lady boobies were not the same as human boobies so you could find pictures of them in my Catholic school library. And you wouldn’t get in trouble with the nuns unless you showed them to your friends and laughed and pretended to squeeze them in the pictures. I got in trouble with the nuns.

[minnesota_bound]

They still insert global baloney as the reason for the animals dying off. I saw a show about Alaska where the shows star said that glaciers are shrinking everywhere then he said except here in this bay that threatens to be cut off by a growing glacier....
They want it both ways and of course tax money to “solve” the issue.

[Leep]

I don’t know if it will help but I was referring to more recent issues of Nat geo.
Post naked ubangi women issues.
Anyhow,it seems to me one loses their claim to be a fully indigenous person when you shop at big box stores.
Props to the indigenous people who live like your tribal ancestry.

[Political Junkie Too]

...with its magazine portrayals of bare-breasted women and naive brown-skinned tribesmen as savage, unsophisticated and unintelligent.

I'm confused...

Were these people filmed unobtrusively in every-day surroundings performing every day rituals and practices?

If so, what was "racist" about that?

On the other hand, were they forced to dress scantily and prance around singing "Camptown Ladies" for American audiences? That would be a different matter, but I don't think that's what happened.

-PJ

[Leep]

Oops ..didn’t mean your Tribal ancestry.
Should be “their”