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...American Dream can be expressed with two words: equal opportunity. Sadly, this principle was subverted by more than 200 years of legal discrimination against blacks--from enslavement to Jim Crow and beyond. Their hopes for equal opportunity and upward mobility were rendered impossible...
...they would be incensed with my portrayal of Dixie, and looked forward to their responses and criticism. I was disappointed by the weakness of their counter-arguments, but then again, it's pretty challenging to defend hundreds of years of inhuman slavery and several generations of equally abhorrent Jim Crow apartheid...
While racial prejudice was--and still is--unavoidable in the North, at least the North was relatively free from the asinine Jim Crow and the bloodthirsty Judge Lynch. At least the North never thrust jabbering Neanderthals such as Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, George Wallace, or David Duke onto the national stage...
...This is a miracle, an absolute bloody miracle," effuses Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax Films. It was surely a godsend to the bustling, Disney-owned distributor, which had no big hit in 1995 to match such previous successes as The Piano, The Crow and Pulp Fiction. But if luck is the residue of design, the Postino nominations were the result of a savvy Miramax marketing campaign...
Exactly who is supposed to extend this apology? The last Confederate widow died in the 1960s. To be sure, perpetrators of the Jim Crow South will live for decades; is Professor Kilson referring to these men and women? Or am I, as descendant of Southern "slavocrats," supposed to apologize...