Word: racial
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...Korean War who eyes his Hmong neighbors suspiciously and launches into racist tirades when provoked - Gran Torino was filmed on location in a mere five weeks on a slim budget of $35 million. The majority of its Hmong characters were played by nonprofessionals. In addressing such tumultuous issues as racial strife, gang warfare and urban blight, it can hardly be categorized as escapist entertainment...
...film confronts issues that are very timely, from racial violence to economic struggles. It's a working-class world that we may not see all that often in blockbusters, but it's something a good many people can relate to," says Karie Bible, an analyst with Exhibitor Relations. Surely Eastwood could not have predicted, when he first set out to make the film, that Detroit's economic woes would be making national headlines by the time Gran Torino arrived in theaters (his character is a retired Ford assembly-plant worker), nor that the movie would be launching into wide release...
...addition, the consequences of such a ruling will be felt disproportionately along the socioeconomic spectrum, as socioeconomically disadvantaged citizens are more likely to be harassed by police officers. Racial minorities will likely suffer from increased mistreatment too. Bearing in mind that these vulnerable groups often lack adequate legal defense and counsel, this ruling will cause many injustices...
...most of the nation celebrated a hallmark of racial reconciliation on Tuesday, Oakland stood apart. For the past two weeks, the California city has been engulfed by racially tinged protests over the brutal New Years Day killing of 22-year old Oscar Grant III by transit officer Johannes Mehserle. Grant and a few friends were returning home from New Years Eve revelry, when they were stopped by Bay Area Rapid Transit Police for rowdy behavior. As documented by several amateur cell phone videos, Grant, who was unarmed, appeared to act cooperatively. Mehserle, however, threw him facedown onto the ground...
...want to mess that up.Harvard Salient: Bros, you were totally the front runner for our free-wheeling prose until we discovered your comp process involved us getting a gay marriage and then being stoned nearly to death while we recite Obama’s convention speech and you scream racial epithets at us.The Crimson Arts Board: We would love the opportunity to be free from editorial constraints seeing as no one would read us enough to be offended.Harvard Independent: You’d let us say “dickswamp,” right?Satire V: We love...