Word: racism
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...legendary globe-trotting photo staff, he could shoot a Brazilian slum, a civil rights march or a Paris fashion show with the same sure mastery. Above all, he made countless pictures of the glories and burdens of African-American life at a time when an unapologetic white racism was the rule, and sometimes the law, in places all around the country...
...could make those pictures because he possessed not only an alert eye but also an experienced heart - he knew what racism and poverty were about. Parks was the son of a poor tenant farmer in Kansas. After his mother died, he was sent to St. Paul, Minn., to live with relatives but was soon turned out of their house. His high school was the streets. He was working as a railway car waiter in the 1930s when he picked up a magazine left behind by a passenger and had his first look at the indelible images of Depression-era America...
...Bruno, a white schoolteacher in real life, believes that blacks could defuse racism with a more positive attitude and are too quick to "play the race card" and "come from a place of self-pity"; he's stubbornly determined to show that, if he gives off a positive vibe, he won't encounter racism. Carmen is the well-meaning daughter of parents who were active in the civil rights movement, but she has had little personal contact with blacks. She refers to one of her daughter's black friends as a "magnificent black creature," and, in a role-play...
...idea, says R.J. Cutler (30 Days), an executive producer of the show along with rapper Ice Cube and Matt Alvarez (both of Barbershop), was to survey the color lines in a country that has largely shed overt racism. For six weeks a black family from Atlanta (Brian and Renee Sparks and their son Nick) and a white family from Santa Monica, Calif. (Carmen Wurgel, Bruno Marcotulli and daughter Rose), went out into society as members of the opposite race and spent their downtime, sans makeup, sharing a house...
...word nigger. Bruno announces that he can't wait for some racist to call him the name; it never happens, but he and Carmen hear the word dozens of times when they visit a black comedy club. Meanwhile, Nick, who says he has never been affected by racism, tells a group of white friends who know he's black that he doesn't care if they use the word, to his parents' mortification. (Nick and Rose's lack of racial baggage will strike viewers as either hopeful or naive...