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I was horrified to read the following racist headline in the May 29 Tempo section: “An Eskimo encounters civilization–and mankind.”
The headline implies that Eskimos are themselves neither civilized nor human. Chicago Tribune editors should not need to be told that people of other cultures count as full human beings and they don’t have to be of European descent to be civilized.
(By the way, the term Eskimo itself is questionable, but we won’t even go there.)
