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Prince Edward County never had racial violence, or the lynching meanness that seeped up in those years in Alabama and Mississippi. But the bruise of the past is deep. The students segregate themselves, black clusters and white clusters, in the school cafeteria. They struggle to describe the abiding significance of race in Prince Edward County. They cannot quite find the word for what they suspect in the hearts of the other race. Not "prejudice." Not "hatred," not "intolerance," exactly. It is, they say, something hidden, and always there...
...Mirror casts a lighter, more positive reflection. Booster journalism promotes progressive activities. It includes poetry and several pages of basketball, handball and softball scores. Consumer stories criticize new prison regulations, meat fraud in the cafeteria, movies on the closed-circuit | channel and such outside issues as exploitation of lab animals and the Federal Government's handling of the AIDS crisis...
There he is listed as James J. Brown, No. 155413. "I'm just sitting quiet, not saying a thing, serving my time," says Brown from a pay phone inside the minimum-security facility. Every day he rises at 5:15 to dish out breakfast in the cafeteria, wearing a cook's white uniform and cap, embellished by purple wraparound sunglasses and a matching purple foulard scarf. He directs the chapel choir, and attendance has doubled since he got there. On Saturdays, his wife Adrienne, a former hair stylist with the television show Solid Gold, brings a dryer...
...Cafeteria workers, Hernandez-Gravelle maintains, were "insensitive" to "people of color" and women because they invited students to "join in a night of nostalgia celebrating" the "fabulous," "fun" and "carefree" 1950s...
Somebody should give these cafeteria workers a break. Last year, a house master questioned their ability to do basic math. And now an assistant dean is accusing them of racial insensitivity, a charge that is unfair and insulting...