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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Racism

Crime and Justice

County shuts down Scream Town after racist post

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 11, 2018, 3:30 PM Oct 11, 2018
23

Racism can put you out of business in a hurry, just ask the owner of Scream Town, which issued a ‘zero tolerance policy for Somalis’ via Facebook after some sort of incident last weekend at the Halloween-themed venue. Read more →

Politics

On the campaign trail, Wisconsin’s racism is showing

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 21, 2018, 7:11 AM Sep 21, 2018
5

In Madison, someone called the cops because a candidate for state assembly was knocking on doors looking for votes. She was ‘suspicious’, and by ‘suspicious’, the complainant actually meant ‘black.’ Read more →

NPR’s ombudsman on Friday’s interview with a white supremacist

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 13, 2018, 4:40 PM Aug 13, 2018
4

Quick update to the ongoing analysis of NPR’s decision to provide an interview with Jason Kessler on Friday, the leader of last year’s violent march by white supremacists and this year’s fizzled march on Washington.
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This or That

NPR defends its interview with a racist

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 13, 2018, 7:53 AM Aug 13, 2018
28

NPR isn’t giving any ground to critics of last Friday’s interview with a white supremacist, during which the Morning Edition host allowed Jason Kessler to theorize on the differences in IQ between whites and people of color. Read more →

Politics

NPR gives a megaphone to a white supremacist

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 10, 2018, 10:00 AM Aug 10, 2018
77

In an earlier, simpler era, news organizations had easy decisions when it came to racist statements in public. They opted to report on them in the belief that it would reveal the extent to which racism existed, even though it was hidden. The audience would be repulsed and push back, and decency would win the day. Easy call.
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Sports

Brewers pitcher bitten by his own words

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 18, 2018, 12:40 PM Jul 18, 2018
14

What was impressive was not only how quickly Josh Hader’s old tweets raced around the internet, but how quickly they raced around the stadium where the game was being played. Read more →

Public parks are a different world for people of color

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 12, 2018, 9:43 AM Jul 12, 2018
78

Across the country, social media is revealing a growing list of incidents where people of color are assaulted for being in public. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name stripped from children’s literary award

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 25, 2018, 9:32 AM Jun 25, 2018
6

The Washington Post says a library association voted Saturday to remove her name because of this passage in the opening chapter of “Little House on the Prairie.” Read more →

This or That

Twitter dogged by its standards

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 21, 2018, 12:23 PM Jun 21, 2018
7

Twitter provides a safe haven for white supremacists and Nazis but it’s got a real problem with people who tweet phone numbers of politicians. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Target pulls ‘baby daddy’ card

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 14, 2018, 8:39 AM Jun 14, 2018
12

Takeisha Saunders of Dallas wants you to understand what the term ‘baby daddy’ refers to in her culture, because the people who do the buying for Target don’t.
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Politics

S.D. legislator apologizes for racist view

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 7, 2018, 7:48 AM Jun 7, 2018
13

In the category of attempts to apologize for your racism, a South Dakota legislator has provided a perfect example of trying to make the obvious go away. Read more →

Education

Student didn’t think yearbook would carry her commentary on racism. It did

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 25, 2018, 9:35 AM May 25, 2018
12

With the distribution of high school yearbooks, we are knee deep in yearbook controversies as usual. The latest is from Revere, Mass., where Betshina Bernier’s yearbook quote was taken from a Florida student’s yearbook from last year. Read more →

Politics

What’s changed in quest for newsroom diversity? Not much, report says

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 23, 2018, 1:36 PM May 23, 2018
9

Mainstream news media outlets aren’t very good at covering communities of color and issues of race and class and there’s a pretty obvious reason why not: they’re mostly white. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Canada comes face to face with its racism

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 10, 2018, 2:57 PM May 10, 2018
6

Canada has been on a roll — PR wise — in recent years but an ugly incident at a Denny’s has proven there are no boundaries for racists. Read more →

Sports

The racism at the rink

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 10, 2018, 7:04 AM May 10, 2018
8

Hockey is a sport played mostly by white people, and that’s just the way too many hockey fans want to keep it.
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