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NPR Hounded for Calling Africa the 'Dark Continent'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/03/01/npr-hounded-calling-africa-dark-continent ^
Posted on 03/01/2008 7:10:29 AM PST by chessplayer
New NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard took up a flurry of complaints when veteran news anchor Jean Cochran told listeners President Bush was traveling to Africa, the "dark continent." They insisted NPR was sounding racist:
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; bushvisit; language; npr; pc; tr
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To: chessplayer
Africa is the dark continent because it is a cesspool of disease, corruption, intertribal murder, libidinous frenzy, witchcraft, and animism, cemented together by intractable ignorance.
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posted on
03/01/2008 8:19:18 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: chessplayer
The expression “the dark continent” has been used for Africa forever. It indicated the fact that Africa was mysterious and inaccessible, not the fact that blacks lived there, since many other races lived there also. Nothing like playing the race card and forcing PC down everyone’s throat every chance they get.
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posted on
03/01/2008 8:19:40 AM PST
by
calex59
To: chessplayer
Perhaps it is still the "dark continent" due to the fact that there are
no electric lights on there. In other words, lacking modern progress.
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posted on
03/01/2008 8:20:17 AM PST
by
Sender
(Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.)
To: Plutarch
I guess I’m not the only one who forgot to turn off his outdoor lights last night;-)
To: xp38
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posted on
03/01/2008 8:22:16 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: Ken522
whoops, “Lord Jim” is set in what is now called Indonesia, on a fictional island..... maybe you are thinking of that other Conrad gem, “The Heart of Darkness”
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posted on
03/01/2008 8:22:57 AM PST
by
Enchante
(Obama: I'll eagerly kiss Castro's cold dead ass, that's my foreign policy!!)
To: chessplayer
Add this nonsense to the list of other ‘forbidden’ words: niggardly, tar baby, Black Sambo, tar-and-feather, etc.
Are these people totally illiterate?
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posted on
03/01/2008 8:23:52 AM PST
by
ladyjane
To: RedMonqey
LOL. You must live in a Blue State. If you’ll notice, we in the “fly over” Red States are much more energy conservation conscious.
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posted on
03/01/2008 8:31:36 AM PST
by
Eurale
To: Eurale
My preference is that we allow them to live independent of international intrusion. Their obsession with genocide, state sponsored starvation and mutilation (to name a few) eliminates any deserving connotation.Much of the illneses of Africa are copied from their (socialist) European teachers.
No matter. Leave 'em alone.
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posted on
03/01/2008 8:33:11 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
(I've got a home in Glory Land that outshines the sun)
To: chessplayer
1. Shame on NPR for caving, and thereby dignifying this nonsense.
2.
Shepard brought out a passel of scolds...
Shame on Martin Graham for writing such rotten English. (And shame on Shepard for acting as if any real or imagined reference to race by a white man requires an apology.)
3. Let's be fair. "The Dark Continent" is a European term, and while I know that it refers primarily to Africa's mysterious and unexplored status (up until the late nineteenth century), I think that those who coined it and used it were also alluding, at least a little, to the color of those who lived there. After all, an unexplored region on the map was generally white, not black, and they never referred to Antarctica as the Dark Continent even though it was (and is) far more remote and unexplored.
To: Jim Noble
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posted on
03/01/2008 8:35:21 AM PST
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: Jim Noble
Reading your tagline I believe that you understand how the same continent that gave us Egypt with it’s Scientific and Historic contributions could have also come to be known as the dark continent. I do not believe it has to do with a lack of exploration, do you?
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posted on
03/01/2008 8:41:14 AM PST
by
kublia khan
(Absolute war brings total victory)
To: kublia khan
I do not believe it has to do with a lack of exploration, do you?Nope.
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posted on
03/01/2008 9:28:31 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
(I've got a home in Glory Land that outshines the sun)
To: Jim Noble
It's not a liberal or conservative issue. I think it is.
Liberals decide issues based on feelings, conservatives by logic.
Anyone of us, or at least most of us, feel sorry for these folks.
Conservatives have the good and logical sense to stop at that because we know, logically, that unless we follow the Coulter Plan (invade their countries, kill their leaders, convert them to Christianity) there is no help we can give that will solve the problem.
Liberals feel so bad that they feel the only way to help them is with someone elses money.
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posted on
03/01/2008 9:29:13 AM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
To: chessplayer
This cannot possibly be true because the media did not cover the President’s trip to Africa. The only thing the media covers is it’s own narrow opinion.
Clearly Bush’s fault.
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posted on
03/01/2008 10:36:14 AM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
To: Eurale
Nope.
We’re Red Staters(Tennessee).
Actually We have movement sensors on outside lights. I just jokingly said that after looking at all those lights around the world.
Your right about energy conscious though.
Taught by my father(God bless his soul) He would haunt us if if any of his children wasted any of TVA's electricity. ;-)
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