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Filmmakers Call Out PBS for Over-Reliance on Ken Burns

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"According to a spokesman, over the past five years, PBS has aired 58 hours of programming from Burns and 74 hours of projects by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., an African American scholar, director, executive producer and host of programs like The Black Church and Finding Your Roots."

So the data doesn't back up the narrative in the letter and it seems to leave out Lynn Novick which has co-produced/co-directed the majority of Burn's films.

All of American Experience's episodes in season 33's so far (the current season) have been about Black Americans or women.

The majority of Independent Len's episodes in season 22 (the current season) have been about BIPOC's or women.

All of American Masters episodes in season 35 (the current season) so far have been about Black and White women.

If anything the data indicates that PBS is an exemplar of the kind of commitment to diversity of points of view the letters authors are advocating for.

Can someone please explain this formulation "Black Indigenous and People of Color" (BIPOC)? It seems to have arisen out of the blue last year. It's redundant, since black people are also people of color. And, assuming indigenous means the people formerly known as American Indians or Native Americans, aren't they also considered POC? So why not just say "people of color"?

This is the same process that turned LGBT into LGBTQIA+. Each sub-group wants to be mentioned in the acronym because "representation" and "solidarity" but it needs to be ordered in terms of size/cohesiviness/level of persecution then because of how the English language is written and how human memory works new letters are tacked on to the end instead of reordering or substituting letters. These groups dislike being described in relation to the groups they feel oppress them. BIPOC = non-white, LGBTQIA+ = non-heterosexuals

> Can someone please explain this formulation "Black Indigenous and People of Color" (BIPOC)? It seems to have arisen out of the blue last year.

https://www.healthline.com/health/bipoc-meaning

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