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...class. For the first century or so, the whole concept of class was derided as something foreign and decadent, along the same lines as male cologne, and inappropriate to a nation with an open frontier. Mention of the word could get you strung up or shunned by the politically correct. Later, in the 1950s, use of the word class joined vegetarianism and folk dancing as one of many telltale signs of communist leanings. Hence Senator Philip Gramm's recent denunciation of the Democrats as latter-day communists, "trying to create the same class struggle that failed in the Soviet Union...
Just like the Boston Police Department, PSP fell prey to Stuart's correct and devilish estimation that urban violence turns into a public problem only when Blacks are said to commit crimes against whites...
...fairly politically correct here," Heatherton adds, "and people who don't go along with that may feel they're being censored by the community. This is their form of aggression...
...writing in response to Gayle Turk's critical editorial concerning "Those @!&# Bells" (February 22), both to correct her numerous errors and misrepresentations, and in order to present an opposing viewpoint...
...that is the correct spelling. Sweetback, for short, is the mother of all blaxploitation movies. Everyone from Shaft to Superfly (and maybe even Ice-T) owes their style to Van Peebles' rendition of Sweetback...