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...West, who elsewhere in the book criticizes “aggressive militarism” as one of three major threats to contemporary democracy, goes as far as to proclaim that “President Summers had messed with the wrong Negro...
...1960s, when he began traveling around the world, Naipaul has infuriated not just Indians, whom he called "barbarous, indifferent and self-wounding," but also the citizens of Zaire ("trapped and static"), Argentina ("deficient and bogus"), Uruguay ("intellectually null ... parasitic"), the Caribbean (ruled by "the deadly comic-strip humour of Negro politics"), and the Muslim residents of Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Iran (a case of collective "neurosis and nihilism"). Upon landing in a new country?usually a developing nation that had recently shaken off colonial rule?Naipaul's modus operandi was to discover quickly that his hosts were relinquishing the gifts...
...Oscar), but even after Oliver Stone gave him a breakout part as a rookie quarterback in Any Given Sunday--reportedly because first choice Sean (P. Diddy) Combs threw like a girl--nothing changed. "After Any Given Sunday--I'm not kidding--I got a script called The Next Hot Negro. The. Next. Hot. Negro...
...Presley's most significant contributions was this: he was able to make more of a commercial impact in rock than the black performers who pioneered the field. In fact, before he signed Presley, Phillips famously declared that "If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars." He found Presley, and the money followed. Just think of how much cash Phillips could have made off of Bill Clinton...
...true. Jefferson's fellow Founding Father John Adams, who had seen Hemings' beauty firsthand (she was known as "Dashing Sally"), also seemed to believe that Jefferson had had an affair with her and called it a "natural and almost unavoidable consequence of that foul contagion in the human character--Negro slavery." But even today, several Jefferson descendants interviewed by TIME said they could not believe that he would become sexually involved with a slave, even one as young and beautiful as Hemings. "Jefferson could date any eligible woman in the world," says John Works, a white descendant. "Why would...