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...stop thinking about that and just live in it,” he says. “One of the frustrations I felt, that comes off in a pretty standoffish tone in the article—I don’t appreciate it when other people of Asian descent come to me and assume a lot of things about me. I think there’s an expected role for me, based on my skin...
...Internet Movie Database identifies Herb Jeffries as being of "Ethiopian-French Canadian-Italian & Irish descent," and notes that one of his five wives was the stripper Tempest Storm. Jeffries was a mellow baritone; he had sung with Cab Calloway. On screen, as Herbert Jeffrey, he became the smoothest cowboy west of Sugar Hill in four sagebrush sing-a-longs made in the late 30s at a black-owned California ranch. As Bogle observes, Jeffries and his light-skinned leading ladies were the "whites" in these films; the supporting roles were taken by dark-skinned comics like Mantan Moreland...
Marett, a 220-pounder of Italian descent, is called “The Big Ragu” by his teammates. Kersey, known for his intense play on the field, has been nicknamed “Scrapper,” after a scene in Braveheart in which the character Edward the Longshanks proclaims “let the scrappers come to us.” The nicknames have become so embedded into the team, Marett says, that some people don’t know their teammates’ real names...
...banditry that afflicted Afghanistan during the few years between the Soviet withdrawal in 1989 and the Taliban takeover in 1996. The victorious Mujahideen had successfully repelled the Soviet occupation, but left to themselves, the various factions could not come together to form a government. What followed was a bloody descent into anarchy. Kabul—virtually the only part of Afghanistan left intact by the bitter jihad against the Soviets—was subsequently shelled to the ground by the “liberators.” Life in the capital city was made so miserable that the people actually...
...loaded term, in order to incite anger in his readers against the State of Israel, having them judge the situation before they even know what it is about. To claim that white Israeli Jewish soldiers are fighting against brown Palestinian Arabs is ridiculous. Not all Israelis are of European descent. On the contrary, there are large populations of Ethiopian, Jordanian, Iranian, Egyptian, Turkish, and Palestinian Jews living in Israel. These Israeli citizens serve in the army and defend their lives and the lives of other innocent civilians. In fact, many times, it is difficult to distinguish between a Jewish Israeli...