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...been no less offensive had he been black himself, a sentiment nicely expressed by ESPN.com columnist Jemele Hill, who wrote, “In case you’re wondering, I would have been equally outraged if Imus were black, Asian, Latino, Portuguese, or Italian. The ethnicity or skin color of the perpetrator matters none.” Hill’s logic is a common feature of the conversation on racism. There is often an attempt to create an equality of offensiveness—to maintain that certain statements are identically racist no matter who utters them...
...Could society possibly arrive at a point where race had no effect on meaning? Perhaps, but it is hard to imagine that racist language could still exist in such a color-blind world. In the mean time, racism is unequal because language is unequal, and the offensiveness of what you say depends both on the color of your skin and the content of your character...
...drum set. “We had a drum set set up in the living room. And I used to play it non-stop,” Collins says, laughing. Since then, his creative juices haven’t stopped flowing, finding outlets in every shape, size, and color. Growing up in New York, Collins continued percussion lessons at Julliard, playing with the New York Youth Symphony as well as a rock band. When the group got serious, he decided to defer coming to Harvard for a year in order to record an album with the band and tour around...
...community, however, perhaps divas simply don’t exist at Harvard. In fact, the majority of her tightly-knit blocking group is involved in theater, a common interest that brought them together from their first days at FAP. Birnbaum’s fondness for her colleagues is also colored with intense respect for their abilities. “The thing about Harvard is that everybody has brilliant ideas all the time,” she says. The difficulty, according to her, lies in synthesizing these ideas together so that everyone is on the same page—her primary...
...life was just about to take off. Salazar decided that she wanted to explore new modes of expression.“By the time I got to college I didn’t know what I wanted photography for. But I had my time with it. I took a color class and then left it. I thought I’d be more interested in animation—best way to combine everything,” Salazar says.Her animated film, “Pidge,” received three nominations at the 2005 SunDeis Film Festival, held at Brandeis University...