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There are also remnants of the competition between Pixar and Dreamworks, the creator of the wildly successful Shrek animated series. The Shrek series made the talking donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy into a main character and was rewarded with favorable publicity. The Incredibles feebly attempts to expand the racial horizon of its previous films by giving a bit role to superhero Frozone—celebrity voiced by Samuel L. Jackson—who gets approximately 15 minutes of screen time. More successful is Pixar’s attempt to challenge Dreamworks on the belly-laugh front: when Jack Jack...
Nanbei street, a ragged strip of asphalt not far from the south bank of the Yellow River, used to be the embodiment of China's racial harmony. Each day, the Muslim call to prayer from Nanren village, populated with the Hui descendants of Silk Road traders, mixed in with the calls to commerce from the vegetable market in the neighboring Weitang village, inhabited by China's Han majority. As testament to its ethnic tolerance, Nanbei Street is lined with fresh-meat stands catering equally to the dietary preferences of the Han and the Hui. Last week, though, after a traffic...
...second case, Johnson v. California, involves racial segregation. For a society that seems so far beyond the problems that plagued the civil rights era, one would think that this case would provoke public astonishment. Instead, it seems to have fallen through the cracks. California’s prison system assigns cellmates based on race for the first 60 days in prison, apparently to reduce conflicts and gang violence until a permanent prison can be found. Though the Ninth Circuit Court believes that the system would be found unconstitutional if it were employed in situations and institutions in other areas...
Other states, such as New York, Florida and Illinois have alternate cellmate assigning policies that take into account gang affiliations while not necessarily separating by race. California’s system, however, creates an environment where prisoners develop racial biases, creating more severe problems when they are released back into society...
...outcome of these cases could have major implications for the future. How is segregation in prisons different from racial profiling in airports? Do prisons deserve to be treated differently from the rest of society? Should minors be held responsible for their actions? These are not simple questions, but since we have been given the opportunity to debate them, it is our obligation as citizens...