Segregation Does Not End at the Lunch Counter
Posted by New Mexico on October 20, 2009 at 02:38pm
 


In the following article published through the Youth Media Reporter, Steve Ranieri talks about understanding niche marketing and media justice.


In the Southwest, justice has always been front and center. Justice denied for the theft of thousands of square miles of native lands during the process of genocide or for families who were living here when the U.S. border passed over them. Justice denied for immigrant populations by politicians and vigilantes alike. Economic justice denied for the majority of all New Mexicans who live in the state that is 49th in per capita income but contains the weapons labs of Los Alamos County, with the highest per capita income in the United States.
These situations create the context in which my nonprofit community media organization, Quote…Unquote—which is dedicated to the exercise of First Amendment rights and to providing media education to the youth of our community—operates. They also keep our diverse community under pressure.
 

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