Word: angers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wastelands into a battleground. The skies burned red. Crowds of stone throwers clashed with police, while shadowed figures hurled Molotov cocktails at cars and buses. The rioters were mostly Arab or black, but they were also mostly French, born and bred in the neighborhoods they were setting ablaze. Their anger spread in an arc across northern Paris, just a few miles from the city's glittering heart, as one desolate neighborhood after another joined in the mayhem. Thousands of police and firemen struggled to douse the rebellion and found themselves inflaming it. In one suburb, four shots, a rarity...
...neighborhoods has raised hackles. So has his penchant for tough talk: he once said criminal elements should be cleaned out with an "industrial power hose." Just days before the mayhem ignited, he went into a troubled banlieue and slammed rebellious youths as "scum"--which some protesters say stoked their anger. The rioting "is going to go on until they pull Sarkozy out of office," says K-Soc, 19, in Bobigny. "He heats things up and then leaves us here to deal with the police." But backlash against the violence is rising among the residents of the banlieues, who marched...
...that alone won't be enough to defuse the anger. "The French just don't think the political class can attack these problems," says Stephane Rozes, a political analyst and pollster. "They see gestures, not problem solving." For years, disgruntled immigrant youths have been trying to attract government attention--occasionally by mounting violent disturbances like last week's. But France has clung to its belief that once black and Muslim and Arab newcomers arrive, they are officially French and do not need special treatment to guarantee their equality. While in theory the children of immigrants have the same rights...
...Colored Museum” acknowledges and addresses the existence of a collective cultural anger that has arisen from the historical oppression of the African-American people. One especially persistent theme is the willingness of modern African-Americans to attempt to lay this wrath to rest...
...show finds outlet for its historical anger in a variety of emotions: bitterness, calmness that takes hold in moments moving in their poignancy, and a pervasive and biting sarcasm. Devin D. Smith ’09, in particular, imbues his characterization with the tremendous depth necessary to hold these oft-contradictory impulses, proving his impressive talent...