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Television is almost always unsettling and amazing when one thinks about it. It imposes upon America a strange simultaneity, if not a unity. It makes for a coast-to-coast viewers' version of what Kurt Vonnegut Jr. called a granfalloon, a wholly artificial brotherhood. TV characters themselves, whatever good lines their writers give them, almost inevitably have the flat soulless quality of people dropped on earth and hatched from a pod. Maybe it's the electron dust on the screen...
Earlier the same week in another part of South Central Los Angeles, black activist and entrepreneur Danny Bakewell, president of L.A.'s Brotherhood Crusade, led a coalition of minority contractors who were protesting their exclusion from riot-related demolition and construction by shutting down work sites that employed no African Americans. After one South Central site that had not a single black on a 10-man crew was shut down on a Friday, it was reopened the following Monday with newfound black workers. "Miraculously, black people were born and gained five years' experience," says Bakewell sarcastically...
...Enlightenment promulgated liberal principles of governance that could, at least in theory, be applied everywhere. The American and French revolutions were mounted in the name of equality and the brotherhood of man, ideals that were anathema to rulers and attractive to the vast majority of their subjects. Empire's days, or at least its decades, were numbered...
...trying to get some unity amongst ourselves," says Chuck J. Monahan, a representative of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers...
...have a problem that it's not a level playing field when they expect a person who is 100 percent legitimate to bid against someone who we interpret to be less than legitimate,." Chuck J. Monahan said inn April. Monahan is a representative of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers...