NABJ Questions NPR’s Diversity Commitment

Maybe NPR should take these claims of ‘proportional representation’ seriously by making sure their staff looks more like those who make donations to NPR.

The real issue could very well be that this NPR employee did something detrimental to a white member of the staff. We’ll never know of course because there isn’t an association of White Journalists because if there were the members would be quickly fired by the very same NPR. I guess a little bit of diversity is a good thing, but too much would be really bad. Sometimes discrimination isn’t good. Other times it’s just great.

“Not many non-whites working at National Public Radio.”

Yes, and doesn’t the highlighting of that prove that we are a melting pot and race doesn’t matter.

Isn’t it hilarious the way the PC dorks whine about needing to count beans, then declare that skin color shouldn’t matter?

Fascinating! How odd that not one iota of info is available—not even speculation—as to why they dumped the black guy. But that’s not surprising to me, given past history.

I’ve long been interested in what people really think at NPR, ever since they “promoted” Bob Edwards right out of his job as anchor (and a very good one) of the “Morning Edition” show. The wagons were circled tight and fast as to why, although it is reported that he described his network’s audience as “too white”. It would make perfect sense, of course, that such an egregiously offensive and stupid slur against whites would cause indignation among the usual suspects for exactly the wrong reasons, but it could be seen as a case of Justice with a capital J for Big Bob. He’s made it clear for many years that Too White really is a serious problem to be fixed, in his mind. He’d ridden on the anti-white wagon a long time, he fell off, and got smacked. Good! (He’s back on that wagon, by the way.}

Of course he landed on his feet—his kind always seem to do that. He does a daily show on Sirius Radio, and a weekend show that I listen to on the local public radio station.

But I always wonder what kind of conversation might have occurred after he went off the reservation—maybe something like “Bob, your career as a broadcaster will last exactly as long as you say the right things, and nothing about why NPR dumped you. Comprende?”

I see the article mentioned current NPR anchor Michelle Norris. I was aware that she is “diverse”, but she actually manages my native language pretty well, which I consider a pretty good indicator of IQ. Sure enough, her photo suggests a significant fraction of white ancestry: she’s actually attractive, in my view.

But here’s a very interesting tidbit from her page on the NPR website:

“Norris attended the University of Wisconsin, where she majored in electrical engineering, and graduated from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where she studied journalism.”

——Huh? from double-E to J-school? What the heck is that about? Well, I can’t say of course, but it sure is consistent with a “diverse” AA golden child finally running into the evil reality of having to understand and solve all those pesky equations. But it looks pretty good on a “journalist’s” resume, of course.

And again, at least she can write and speak coherent sentences. It could be worse.

I know this sounds crazy, but I think liberals are far more likely to adopt pro-white attitudes than conservatives after they’ve been forced to work and live among non-whites.

There aren’t very many white conservatives who would object to living in an America populated with 300 million Uncle Toms—I mean, Thomas Sowells.

As long as they’re Christians dedicated to Free Market principles conservatives are probably more pro-non-white than liberals.

Liberals are only pro-diversity if they don’t actually have to participate in diversity.

“I know this sounds crazy, but I think liberals are far more likely to adopt pro-white attitudes than conservatives after they’ve been forced to work and live among non-whites.”

I don’t think it’s crazy at all. I have seen how White liberals react the first time they are exposed to large numbers of non-Whites or are mistreated for being White. The subconscious racism that was always there boils to the surface and they adopt an explicit White identity. No one as lily White and prissy as the typical White liberal could actually like Blacks or Mexicans.

“Some Guy” I have wondered very much the same thing. In fact, I’ve seen evidence that there is no small degree of truth in it. Conservatives may be more inclined to crack and off-color joke, or graon about Affirmative Action here and there, etc. But they don’t really SEE race at all - the Sowell analogy is valid. Liberals, on the other hand, see race in EVERYTHING! And sooner or later, some of them actually begin to admit they don’t exactly like what they see, and that maybe they have been mislead. Of course some bleeding-hearts will never concede reality - but more might than some Conservatives might believe.

To work at NPR requires a high level of intelligence and literacy. And you wonder why few non-whites work there.

I know this sounds crazy, but I think liberals are far more likely to adopt pro-white attitudes than conservatives after they’ve been forced to work and live among non-whites.

Liberals probably got their attitudes handed to them in colleges nationwide; this indoctrination is not as enduring as an experience like, say, being a white man in the public school system in Philly or being a white social worker.

As for a conservative — if he just “earned” his beliefs by reading National Review or something, then he might be swayed more easily.

This is typical liberal behavior by NPR. They tirelessly advocate diversity for the rest of us, and yet don’t practice it themselves. The few blacks and minorities they have are pushed to the front to give the impression that they are more numerous than they actually are.

The National Association of Black Journalists has reacted… with a strongly worded letter questioning the network’s commitment to diversity.

I question the networks commitment to diversity as well. Right now it’s a mono-culture obsessed ‘news’ organization looking for every black centric event/news/tidbit they can find. When they can’t fill the voids with ‘reporting’, they spend an hour fluffing about some non-event black centric hyperbole.

God help the foolish whites that donate to this twisted organization.

Pat Buchanan has the right idea- demand all of those who push diversity to begin with themselves. If Harry Reid says we need more diversity in the senate, than he should give his seat to a black guy.

NPR has story after story about the benefits of diversity and multiculti. lets start with them, with proportional representation.

7 — HH wrote at 9:33 PM on October 29:

“Some Guy” I have wondered very much the same thing. In fact, I’ve seen evidence that there is no small degree of truth in it. Conservatives may be more inclined to crack and off-color joke, or graon about Affirmative Action here and there, etc. But they don’t really SEE race at all - the Sowell analogy is valid. Liberals, on the other hand, see race in EVERYTHING! And sooner or later, some of them actually begin to admit they don’t exactly like what they see, and that maybe they have been mislead. Of course some bleeding-hearts will never concede reality - but more might than some Conservatives might believe.”

> I not only have said this in past posts, but I would posit as I often do, that the future of any White Survival movement depends upon Liberals who come to see the lie of multiculturalism, integration, etc., mostly by way of exposure to its practical results. (As if it is not plain enough yet!)

It is almost and largely the “Prarie Home Companion,” a long running NPR program, loved by many, especially in the Northern Midwest that has retained the large mass of NPR listeners. Garrison Keilor, its creator, narrator, and “master of ceremonies” while a greatly talented humorist and writer, who actually is helping preserve a large portion of White, Old Northwest Culture, as well as White Culture in general, cannot hide, and does not try to hide, the disconnected old Lutheran style liberal that reflexively supports the principles of Diversity and Multiculturalism. This, even though Minneapolis and St. Paul have become plagued by non-white gangs and immigration. The same stubborness that drives the preservation of that very White Culture his program makes so endearing to us also feeds the blindness that denies the coming death of the very culture “The Prarie Home Companion” celebrates. Of course, I see Christianity at the core of this problem, which again, is one of the many reasons I argue that Christianity is ultimately a bain to Whites, rather than a boon.

Your organization benefits from listener support, corporate donations and tax dollars from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting and should reflect the diversity of the community you serve. The minority population of the United States is approximately 32 percent.

I’ll bet that at least 90% of the donations to NPR come from white people. Over the years my local NPR station played less and less classical music (too white and elitist, you know) and instead had more and more liberal whites talking up diversity. So I stopped listening and stopped donating. I’m all in favor of the white “progressives” working in public radio being fired and replaced by the diversity. Let the diversity do the donating, too. NPR should reap as NPR has sown.

A number of African American men on-air, ranging from former hosts Tavis Smiley and Ed Gordon and reaching back to Sunni Khalid, the former Cairo bureau chief who in 1997 filed a $2 million discrimination suit against the network, have also had issues with NPR. Khalid and NPR reached a settlement in 2003.

Even liberals find that when they hire blacks as often as not they are rewarded for their trouble with discrimination lawsuits.

“A number of African American men on-air, ranging from former hosts Tavis Smiley and Ed Gordon and reaching back to Sunni Khalid, the former Cairo bureau chief who in 1997 filed a $2 million discrimination suit against the network, have also had issues with NPR. Khalid and NPR reached a settlement in 2003.”

Let’s not forget one of NPR’s most prominent black journalists:

Mumia Abu Jamal.

He used to have a spot on “All Things Considered” - I think it was called “Live from Death Row”.

Maybe he’d like to get in on some of that class, class-action action too. NPR just doesn’t hire enough black murderers.

6 Economist: White liberals despise working class Whites and mock their culture. They cannot help but truly loathe Blacks and Mexicans since those “cultures” are so obviously inferior to ours. It is only malice, ignorance, or an advanced capacity for self-delusion that allows liberals to imagine that they are really multi-culturalists.