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...Hidlin says we're Afro American. You cannot deny either halt we're Black and American. And this realization is really the next step for Black film as well as Black politics. We have to be more critical, we have to get beyond gross over-simplifications and knee jerk responses to problems of race in this country. Sure we are the disenfranchised from the American Dream Capitalism and communism are both as owedly racist. But we're not moving beyond this rhetorical consciousness. What are we going to do next...
...motives are suspect, he is being 'patronizing?'" asks Hudlin. "It makes you wonder if an honest reach-out and a sympathetic response will ever be possible? And when a Black is a loser, say when my work is rejected by a white organization. I still have that knee-jerk response--is it because I'm Black? You don't want to cry 'wolf,' but you can never know for sure. That's why Blacks suffer from hypertension and high blood pressure. They can't win. They don't want to be victims, but they don't want to give...
...given his choice, at least not right away. Despite Elway's expressed desire to play on the West Coast, Baltimore stubbornly did not trade the pick to San Diego, Seattle or the Los Angeles Raiders. "I don't want to be a jerk or anything," Elway told Colts Coach Frank Kush, "but we [meaning Elway, his agent Marvin Demoff and his father Jack, the head football coach at San Jose State] have been telling you for three months I'm not going to play in Baltimore." Elway then called a press conference to declare, ''Right...
...neck is killing me, Did you ever wake up with a jerk...
...rule of the rajahs: "The culprit, bound hand and foot, is fastened by a long cord, passed round his waist, to the elephant's hind leg. The latter is urged into a rapid trot through the streets of the city, and every step gives the cord a violent jerk, which makes the body of the condemned wretch bound on the pavement . . . Then his head is placed upon a stone, and the elephant executioner crushes it beneath his enormous foot...