Public radio programs have been interviewing Felix Sanchez of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, who claims that announcers for Univision's coverage of the World Cup (which brings a bigger audience to the net as it has done for past Cups) have been calling dark-skinned footballers "morenos," which he considers a racist term--Sanchez with NPR's Michael Martin on the soon-to-depart "Tell Me More":
http://www.npr.org/2014/06/18/323211298/is-the-world-cup-commentary-racist And on PRI's "The World": http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-06-20/univisions-world-cup-spanish-commentary-has-surprised-some-latinos Lively comments on both posts, with Sanchez participating in both. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
