Word: mcdonald
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Since then, hip-hop has gone more global than McDonald's, and the fever for the flavor of "representing" has waned in hip-hop artists' vernacular. As few as maybe two years ago, the hip-hop vocalist's primary focus involved overtly "keeping it real," understood as portraying an accurate picture of the artist's origin both as an artist and (presumably) as a minority youth-at-risk. Now, no one admits this priority, but everyone expects it as they do from an anthropologist: all of hip-hop culture, condensed in the "real it," should come across...
Patrons of Boston-area McDonald's have received such tasty morsels of Black History along with their Big Macs and fries throughout the month of February. Did somebody say Black History Month...
Celebration of rightly famous historical figures, both American and black, supports a source of black identity and pride significantly more relevant and accessible to modern black Americans than any notion of common African cultural heritage. Also, both blacks and whites celebrate Black History Month. As McDonald's and Better Foods evince, Black History Month lacks all of Kwanzaa's exclusivity and divisiveness. Black History Month provides a unifying, healing celebration of black identity...
Covington, as McDonald re-creates him in earthy, economical prose, is a cheerful believer in the biblical doctrines that Darwin's work will so thoroughly overturn. The recipient of a shipboard education in basic Christianity, yet brimming over with animal high spirits, Covington roams the wilds of South America, bringing down exotic birds by day and happily sinning away his nights with a succession of willing women. He's not a student of evolution but evolution's happy product, strong and shrewd and lusty. A nature boy. The irony is that this makes him the perfect tool of a scientific...
...Darwin are chapters depicting Covington's old age. Settled on the Australian coast, he awaits the delivery of an early copy of The Origin of Species. A reader's expectation, of course, is that the book will blow away Covington's Christian piety, but it's a measure of McDonald's wisdom and subtle understanding of human ties that something altogether stranger happens. Evolution, as Mr. Darwin's Shooter demonstrates, is driven by forces more nuanced and mysterious than the crude survival of the fittest...