The article “Opinion: Past racist coverage appalls National Geographic editor” tells us that National Geographic used to publishe magazines with racial discrimination, which was under the background of age whe blacks In US were ignored.
If Haile Selassie were born and raised in the United States, he would not be as successful as he lived in the Kings of Ethiopia. one of significant reasons was the barriers existed in the United state, at least from a political point of view, which separate “white people” away from “colored people”.
Magazine’s Hisotry “hurts”
The editor herself found it’s hard to deny or avoid the crucial facts that the magazine itself as a source of discrimination from the past. However, when they decided to write on the topic of “race”, they have to face their hisotry honestly and accurately.
Writer Elizabeth Kolbert believes that there is an interrealtionship between biological difference and social relationships, because the idea of race can divide people from their appearance and isolate them from other communities.
If the mission of National Geographic is to introduce a new thing/ new place/ and a new idea to audience neutrally, why would editors allow an exception on racial issues?
Blacks in US were ignored
a professor, who experts on the hisotry of photography and the history of Africa, helped editors to understand the history of the magazine better. People tagged “colored people” as either Laborers or natives in the past. Unfortunately, the Magazine has little help to break this sterotype. Indeed, the magazine helped to emphasis on what audience believed, instead of the whole picture of the story.
Reporting Contrasted
One story when the magazine expressed and emphasis on different point of view, the effort would be dramtically different.
在架构上面：
第一段-一个引文：这片文章一开始以Haile Selassie 为例引出了一个强烈的对比，在非洲以及在美国本土在政界对有色人中的严重差别。
第一个小标题：从杂志本身的视角出发强调了“种族存在”的真实性，以及不可磨灭的事实数据，并且承认了杂志本身的做法在加重种族歧视的情况
第二个小标题：进一步举例在美国的历史中，种族歧视的严重性，而杂志本身为了自身利益只强调了对他们有利的片面报道，并非真实而全面的。
第三个小标题：用了一个真实案例证明两个视角给读者的感受也是不同的，并且肯定了这种以不同视角来看待同一件事情以及用同一视角看到不同种族的做法是之前所无法想象但是确实正确的事情。
