Transom: There’s a question I’ve heard a lot lately. Program directors and hosts approach me at radio events more and more often (it’s not hard to spot me — I’m often one of the only People of Color [POC] in the room) and ask, “How do I reach a more diverse audience? And how do I hire more people of color?”
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Wait, what? 13 percent of journalists are minorities? I had to reread that line several times just to make sure I wasn't seeing things. That makes me absolutely furious. The world view in some of most public industries is so awfully skewed to make white people believe that they're the supreme race. If we want to think on a global level, white people are really the minority. Yes, America is one of the most influential countries and our country does have a lot of white people, perhaps more than most countries. However, white people are not everywhere. White people don't have the same perspectives as POC. There is a certain level of inherent understanding of systematic oppression, which drastically alters the experiences that POC have and provide them with a different world understanding. That experience is valuable, especially in American culture, because it's something that white people are often too blinded by their own privilege to understand.
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