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...Fourteen years after the end of apartheid, its divisions and absurdities live on. Segregation may now be voluntary rather than legal, but South Africans still live in neighborhoods defined by skin color - white, black or "colored" [mulatto or descendants of slaves from the Dutch East Indies]. To address the iniquities of apartheid, the state decided it still needed to classify its citizens by race: The post-apartheid government instituted an affirmative action program called Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) to redress the massive imbalance of economic power in favor of whites. BEE legislation relies for the most part on apartheid...
...World War II, he sifted the rubble for a pictorial language that could reach back much farther, past civilization itself. Like the French artist Jean Dubuffet, he found it in graffiti, a scrawl that felt older and wilder than antiquity. In Twombly's paintings hectic scribbles and smudges of color might share the canvas with a crudely drawn word or phrase that harks back to the classical world - Hérodiade, Leandro - but always dimly, a fading signal, the remnant of a broken order...
...feel really Asian in Ghana. Granted, the color of deeply polished ebony is the norm here, but I'm not even the glorious pale shade of ethereal white skin that can be seen on Ghanaian advertisements. I am pasty and yellow. I look strange to most Ghanaians—and they kindly tell...
...Your name matters little, nor where you dwell. Your color matters little, nor your origin. I love human beings, wherever they come from. O, oppressed brother, hear my cry! A cry from Egypt. O, oppressed brother, hear my cry! A cry from Egypt...
...Germans differentiate between America and the Bush Administration. They are not anti-American per se; on the contrary," says Andreas Etges, professor for North American studies at Free University Berlin and curator of a local museum focused on the Kennedys. "Obama, not only because of his skin color, for many, represents the other, better America...