SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
from tonguetied.us and, of course, the source cited in the article...
The ombudsman at the Minneapolis Star Tribune says the paper should not have used the term “rampage” in a headline about the school shooting in Red Lake, Minn. because it is demeaning to and fuels stereotypes about American Indians.
“While the technical definition of "rampage" would accurately describe a shooting that leaves 10 dead, it was a poorly chosen word to describe a catastrophe on an Indian reservation,” writes Kate Parry. “Portrayals of ‘rampaging Indians’ fed hateful stereotypes in books and movies for many years. Yet I've seen the word used in many media around the country to describe the Red Lake shooting.”
Parry says someone should have stopped the headline before it saw print.
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So. Now I suppose that the next kid who commences to shooting everything that moves in his school should be consulted for the semantics of how his deeds will be chronicled in the local fish wrapper.
Sickening.
The words a reporter chose for his/her headline have not one thing to do with the events that occurred inside that school. For that matter, they have zero bearing on the legacy of the gross misdeeds perpetrated upon Native Americans by a federal government so hellbent on greed and land acquisition that they forced millions of people away from their homes and off land they rightfully owned. These people were exiled into some of the least desirable locales our government could spare for them. I don't blame 'em for "rampaging"...I would have done my fair share of it too had it happened to me. Might explain why I feel as I do about a couple other issues. Blind allegiance no more.
The ombudsman at the Minneapolis Star Tribune says the paper should not have used the term “rampage” in a headline about the school shooting in Red Lake, Minn. because it is demeaning to and fuels stereotypes about American Indians.
“While the technical definition of "rampage" would accurately describe a shooting that leaves 10 dead, it was a poorly chosen word to describe a catastrophe on an Indian reservation,” writes Kate Parry. “Portrayals of ‘rampaging Indians’ fed hateful stereotypes in books and movies for many years. Yet I've seen the word used in many media around the country to describe the Red Lake shooting.”
Parry says someone should have stopped the headline before it saw print.
**end**
So. Now I suppose that the next kid who commences to shooting everything that moves in his school should be consulted for the semantics of how his deeds will be chronicled in the local fish wrapper.
Sickening.
The words a reporter chose for his/her headline have not one thing to do with the events that occurred inside that school. For that matter, they have zero bearing on the legacy of the gross misdeeds perpetrated upon Native Americans by a federal government so hellbent on greed and land acquisition that they forced millions of people away from their homes and off land they rightfully owned. These people were exiled into some of the least desirable locales our government could spare for them. I don't blame 'em for "rampaging"...I would have done my fair share of it too had it happened to me. Might explain why I feel as I do about a couple other issues. Blind allegiance no more.
