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...anything, it is to their own genius, strength and amazing grace, not to what Novak seem to believe was American generosity. And what of the not-so-successful blacks, those constituting the majority of the black population whose lives on the bottom rung of America's social and economic ladder are a testament to slavery's continuing legacy? Their predicament stands in answer to Buchanan's observations that because we as a nation today are different from antebellum America, this nation has nothing to repent. The point is that the consequences of slavery persist in plaguing a whole segment...
Instead of moving up the ranking in college, Blake hopes to gradually climb the professional ladder. He will begin at the satellite level for experience and quickly move up to futures level. Blake feels he can accumulate enough tour points to qualify for a major tournament at Washington D.C. and the Pilot Pen tournament...
...payments amounted to hush money. That investigation has also led nowhere, but Starr appears ready to go after Hubbell again, this time on tax charges relating to some of the $700,000. The first time Starr nabbed Hubbell, he hoped that Clinton's crony could lead him up the ladder. Now he knows that won't work. When it comes to Starr's case against the Clintons, very little ever does...
...More on-screen Cinderellas abide -- and stall -- in Hoop Dreams (1994), a gritty, often wrenching documentary about climbing the athletic ladder in Chicago that got screwed out of an Oscar in 1994 (but what else is new). Teen dream Leo DiCaprio, back when he could act, drives the lane to ruination, via the glories attendant to a ball-playing youth, in Basketball Diaries (1995). Girls: there's a sex scene. Parents: Lots of heroin...
...with using the "n"-word 80-plus times in "Jackie Brown," because it was always uttered by a black man. Is this some kind of a double standard? Not really. Black people can "get away" with calling each other niggers because no matter how high up on the social ladder a black person can get, he can never be high enough to be white. In a very real sense, he will never be any better than the person he calls a nigger...