Word: kluxes
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...blossoming of each character really does touch the emotions of an openhearted viewer. But the scheme has heavier undertones. For creamy black-and-white read white: white bread, pasty white skin, whites-only neighborhoods, the last decade of white-male culture and, yes, the white sheets of the Ku Klux Klan. For color read colored, as in "colored people" and other oppressed minorities--artists seeking free expression, women in search of the apocalyptic orgasm...
...that people are walking around with Ku Klux Klan hats on--it's just that they're more comfortable working with people who look like them," Zucker says. "That's the nature of discrimination...
...questions: Isn't it strange that this woman who used language worthy of a Ku Klux Klan member is now hailed as a feminist icon...
...macabre throwback to the '60s, a small southern town on Saturday becomes a flash point for America's unfinished conversation on race. The Ku Klux Klan is staging a rally outside the courthouse in Jasper, Texas, but the Klansmen face the unfamiliar experience of having their activities monitored by shotgun-wielding members of the New Black Panther Party, who plan to protect the town's black citizens. The Klan event is ostensibly intended to condemn the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr. for which three men with white supremacist links have been charged...
...white men. They drove him to a wooded area, where he was beaten, chained by his ankles to the pickup and dragged down the road for at least two miles, maybe three. His body fell to pieces. Among the remnants, someone had dropped a cigarette lighter with the Ku Klux Klan insignia...