KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Star’s top editor has apologized for past decades of racially biased coverage and the newspaper has posted a series of stories examining how it ignored the concerns and achievements of Black residents and helped keep Kansas City segregated.
The newspaper said a detailed examination of its past coverage and that of its longtime sister newspaper, the Kansas City Times, documented how they often wrote about Black residents only as criminals or people living in crime-plagued neighborhoods and ignored segregation in Kansas City, Missouri, and its public schools.
“It is well past time for an apology, acknowledging, as we do so, that the sins of our past still reverberate today,” Star President and Editor Mike Fannin wrote.
The Star’s apology and its lengthy series of stories, posted on its website Sunday, followed a Los Angeles Times editorial in September apologizing for past racially biased coverage. The Montgomery, Alabama, Advertiser in 2018 apologized for “shameful” decades of coverage of lynchings, and National Geographic magazine apologized the same year for its past racist coverage.
Fannin wrote that The Star had reinforced segregation, “disenfranchised, ignored and scorned generations” of Black residents and for decades “robbed an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice and recognition.”
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Ah, the race card and the race baiters are at it again.
And like always, BUSINESSES SHOW THEY no longer have a spine…
HAD WE had these spineless cretins at the start of WW2, we would have NOT won!
having to apologize for telling the truth is b.s. statistics do not lie.
When was the last time you read in any news article or addressed by any professional politician that;
I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a) Black males make up about 8% of the U.S. population but commit 53% of all the murders and 55% of all robberies in the U.S… Every year there are ~6,000 African-Americans men, women and children killed and 94% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans.
In the news today if a black person commits a crime, any crime and they are being searched for, their race is not mentioned.
Why? Because the politicians and their propaganda outlets don’t want to appear to be pointing fingers at the black community.
Even though Black males make up about 8% of the U.S. population but commit 53% of all the murders and 55% of all robberies in the U.S..
To be fair black males make up only 8% of the U.S. population, but only ~0.25% of the 8% are dishonorable thugs. The rest of the Black race is honorable and law abiding, most of the time.
Facts be racist man. Didn’t you get the memo.
Maybe, just maybe, if you took to heart the “journalism” part, and actually reported the news, things might work better. Now, IF, you were reporting real news and that real factual news run up against the preferred narrative of leftists, who don’t give a damn about facts, then when you apologized, you just sold out.
Good thing i don’t LIVE in kansas, as i’d be DUMPING ANY subscription i had to this rag.. QUICKER THAN you could say “Awe shucks”