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Outrage at whites-only image as Uganda climate activist cropped from photo
The Guardian ^ | 1/24/2020 | Kenya Evelyn

Posted on 01/25/2020 4:21:33 AM PST by MountainWalker

Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has called out racism in media after she was cropped out of a photo featuring prominent climate activists including Greta Thunberg, Loukina Tille, Luisa Neubauer and Isabelle Axelsson.

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“Why did you remove me from the photo? I was part of the group”, she tweeted in response. Other agencies, including Reuters, misidentified Nakate as Zambian activist Natasha Mwansa. Reuters’ currently available version of the photograph identifies the other four activists in the picture but not Nakate.

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In the viral video, Nakate elaborated on what she considers the erasure of black and brown voices in conversations surrounding climate change, pointing out that people who look like her are most vulnerable to rising global temperatures.

“We don’t deserve this. Africa is the least emitter of carbons, but we are the most affected by the climate crisis,” she said. “You erasing our voices won’t change anything. You erasing our stories won’t change anything.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


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To: a fool in paradise

Nice - so I’ll just refer to Casey as a Saudi Muslim...


21 posted on 01/25/2020 5:04:16 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: SkyPilot

Ask Vanessa if she attends these events to draw attention to the issue(s) or if she does it to get her picture in the paper.

Does she see Greta as a rival or a peer with common goal?

What difference does it make if she gets in the paper so long as the conference/rally gets media coverage?


22 posted on 01/25/2020 5:05:02 AM PST by a fool in paradise (We need a tax to stamp out Communism- If you espouse Marxism weÂ’ll redistribute all of your money.)
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To: MountainWalker

The tall girl will commit murder one day.


23 posted on 01/25/2020 5:05:11 AM PST by EEGator
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To: MountainWalker

Also, I think the chick next to the Black chick was on House of Cards...


24 posted on 01/25/2020 5:06:51 AM PST by EEGator
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To: kearnyirish2

Comedy of errors, or is it? Reuters is racist !


25 posted on 01/25/2020 5:08:20 AM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: SmokingJoe

26 posted on 01/25/2020 5:08:32 AM PST by a fool in paradise (We need a tax to stamp out Communism- If you espouse Marxism weÂ’ll redistribute all of your money.)
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To: EEGator

they are all suicides


27 posted on 01/25/2020 5:12:14 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: MountainWalker

A “climate crisis” becomes a “race issue”. The drama never ends with the Leftist crisis mongers.


28 posted on 01/25/2020 5:15:37 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: dp0622

Indeed racism is the last thing the environmental movement wants. It has been described as way way white in composition since it’s not something blacks flock to. They would kill to have more blacks involved.


29 posted on 01/25/2020 5:16:06 AM PST by xp38
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To: MountainWalker

If SWAMPSNIPER were still here he’d confirm that it is in fact very tricky to get the correct exposure on blacks and whites. Blacks, naturally, need more exposure.

This is in part because so many feel as if they have been traditionally under-exposed. There are exceptions. Martin Luther King’s life, for instance, must not be fully exposed. So, these photographic things are indeed complex.


30 posted on 01/25/2020 5:16:36 AM PST by golux
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To: MountainWalker

Interesting. The Black girl is the only one smiling and looking somewhat normal. The nuttiest is Gretta.

Vanessa Nakate appears to be wearing the same ID tag and is grouped with the others. Her improper ID’ing makes the media racist in that “they all look alike”. In my opinion if some conservative outfit cropped this girl out racism charges would be abundant.


31 posted on 01/25/2020 5:16:43 AM PST by redfreedom
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To: csvset

Knowing how they’d quickly rush to judgment on any of us, I’ll assume its racism.


32 posted on 01/25/2020 5:17:57 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: EEGator
The tall girl will commit murder one day.

She better hide all the scarves in her apartment. And disconnect all of her door knobs.



33 posted on 01/25/2020 5:21:35 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

I guess I’m a little put out by the fact that this is even a thing. Even endless sportsball is more edifying.


34 posted on 01/25/2020 5:24:31 AM PST by Tax-chick ("The diversity cult is destroying the very foundations of our civilization." ~ Heather MacDonald)
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To: xp38
They would kill to have more blacks involved.

But when they think they're in private, they calmly discuss eliminating blacks (and browns) as the solution to the Climate Crisis.

35 posted on 01/25/2020 5:27:11 AM PST by Tax-chick ("The diversity cult is destroying the very foundations of our civilization." ~ Heather MacDonald)
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To: MountainWalker
They aren't racist. Here's someone they'd never crop out but she feelz the sadz for the ugly bald girl.


36 posted on 01/25/2020 5:27:41 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: MountainWalker

European climate change activists are racist? Who knew. The Ugandans can put some ice on it.

White leftists know better.


37 posted on 01/25/2020 5:27:47 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 21twelve

Four per the fat-boy Moore.


38 posted on 01/25/2020 5:31:57 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: mikey_hates_everything

Which girl are you saying is bald?


39 posted on 01/25/2020 5:32:07 AM PST by Tax-chick ("The diversity cult is destroying the very foundations of our civilization." ~ Heather MacDonald)
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To: SkyPilot
That’s hysterical! It’s almost as impressive as this . . . .


40 posted on 01/25/2020 5:32:21 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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