On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 06:48:39 EDT
[email protected] (MW1CFN via rec.radio.amateur.moderated Admin) wrote:
Real-World Amateur Radio
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Let's go DXpeditioning, 1947-style!
Posted: 08 Apr 2022 02:22 AM PDT https://mw1cfnradio.blogspot.com/2022/04/lets-go-dxpeditioning-1947-style.html
A post over on Twitter recently provided considerable food for thought
about the lack of diversity in ham radio today, let alone back in 1947,
when the associated video was made.
The reality about ham radio is that it's a hobby that developed in Anglo-Saxon societies (Britain and its colonies, mostly). It was almost entirely represented by white men - because only men were expected to have any interesting hobbies back then.
The video is of its era, but still quite upsetting. Black men always appear doing the work, with white men, dressed in white, so as to highlight the difference, always look on in domineering, overbearing fashion. Colonial whites (skin and dress), folded arms and black skivvies. The natural order
of things, as was then believed (and ruthlessly enforced).
As you say, it was 1947 and you should not have expected anything else
in that era, nor be able to change it in 2022 irrespective of whether
it should have happened or not.
Let's all point at the black man with a funny hat.
Funny hats are fair game, I saw a German chap wearing one the other
evening, even he thought it was funny.
Today, the story is not very much changed, it is sad to say. Black people
are still excluded, just as in the magazine cover, where the local man is outside, amongst the trees, whilst the white man, in colonial expeditionary attire ('safari' hat ready for another 'mission', on the amp), is inside, amongst the modern radio equipment.
Most of the adverts I see on the TV seem to be the opposite of that. I
don't know if I'm supposed to be bothered or not, but maybe it's
because I'm out of touch with the woke yoof that decide these things
while I'm still posting to Usenet.
It's all very sad. More so, because white people of today don't really seem to see what's wrong with all this stuff.
People are people, and they're all different. There may be much wrong
with all sorts of things but sometimes it's just best to let the mad DXpeditioners get on with it and try to get on to Bouvet Island alive
while rest of us try not to get caught in the pile-ups.
--
Brian Morrison
"I am not young enough to know everything"
Oscar Wilde
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