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...Something comes to mind as I stand here. I’m thinking of myself in elementary school,” she said, recounting a music teacher who used to look down from her piano and smile in a show of praise. “I think about God going about his business and just now he looked down on me and smiled,” she added. The performer held the audience in rapt attention as she wove together anecdotes from her life and selections from her writings and others’. “This day makes...
Imagine a world in which you can be your own God. You can choose your own gender, color, size, or even species. Instead of driving your car to work, you can fly. Today, you can do all this from the chair of your computer desk with a program called Second Life...
...words.” Senator John Warner (R-VA), exuding his usual gravitas, calls these crimes “senseless” and “incomprehensible.” Bush, always the ineffective orator, talks about the importance of keeping faith in “a loving God.” But in the face of such a pointless and cruel squandering of human life, his theodicy is unconvincing. The question seems trite until a tragedy like this strikes: “How could a benevolent God allow this to happen...
...comrades: his Afro-Cuban bandmate, Fernando (Chimi Monterrey), and the band's sexy, dusky lead dancer, Isabel (Chela Castro), who clearly has a crush on the oblivious José Carlos. "You lower yourself dancing with that mulatta," Ana Luisa sneers, to which her color-blind beau replies, "It was God's decision that she's of mixed race." Ana Luisa also thinks that his performing in blackface is demeaning, but he shrugs that off with a laugh: "You're very lucky: You're being courted by two men. A white one by day and a black one by night." Plighting...
...four, with her father's (and grandmother's) loving disposition, but Ana Luisa still resents and recoils from her. "Why didn't God send me a white and blond girl?" she demands. "I would've loved her so much." (And Mercé asks, "What did black people do to make you hate us so much?") Desperate for affection from her mother, Belén puts pancake makeup on her face, saying, "I want to be white so mama will love me." Ana Luisa sees this pathetic travesty, and kisses Belén for the first time...