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...human family as everyone else.”In addition to being a critic, Brustein is also the founder of the American Repertory Theater (ART), housed at the Loeb Theater in Harvard Square. According to acting artistic director Gideon Lester, Brustein founded the theater with a “colorblind?? philosophy of giving the best actor the best part regardless of his or her race. While diversity in casting is, Lester says, an institutionalized principle at the ART, he questions whether “non-traditional” casting, in which minority actors fill traditionally white roles...
...overwhelmingly black. While 27 percent of those convicted of crimes related to powder cocaine are black, the figure jumps to an astounding 85 percent for crack. As Sentencing Commission member Judge William K. Sessions III argued in announcing the decision, “justice is, and must always be, colorblind??—an impossibility when the use of a drug associated with one community is punished much more harshly than the use of a very similar drug favored by another. Nevertheless, we retain many qualms with national drug and mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Although they stop short...
Justifying the school’s current policy, The Daily Princetonian incredulously noted “While we all aspire to some mythical ‘colorblind?? society, our society continues to treat people differently based on their race and ethnicity.” While it is possible to disagree about the degree to which racial differences affect life experience in America, only the most foolish would suggest that they do not exist. Yet what is profoundly mystifying to me, is why racism, or “differential treatment,” or whatever else one sees...
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