Something very weird said by one of the bureaucrats inside the BBC:
The BBC was yesterday plunged into a row over its foreign reporting after its new "diversity czar" said there were too many white journalists reporting from non-white nations, particularly in Africa.
Mary
Fitzpatrick said that she was tired of repeatedly seeing programmes
where the situation was "here we are in Africa, and here’s a white
person saying, well, look at these people".
That’s simply racism of course, distinguishing between people on the basis of their ethnicity.
But what’s worse is that she doesn’t actually seem to understand what she’s saying:
Miss Fitzpatrick told The Observer that the BBC’s team of foreign
correspondents should come from the same ethnic background as the
country they were reporting from.
This is entirely nonsensical. So we’re reporting from India: the reporter should be of which caste? (Yes, they are very different ethnic backgrounds). A Sikh? Moslem? Hindu? Reporting from Sri Lanka, Sinhalese or Tamil? Nigeria: Yoruba, Hausa or Ibo?
As the UK is majority a vague pinkish colour is she going to fire all reporters currently employed in the UK who are not vaguely pinkish?
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