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...Terrence Howard, and in the past year, Hollywood has started to figure him out. His work as Dlay, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, and as Cameron, the movie director on the receiving end of racism in Crash, has earned him offers to play, he says, "a million different villains" as well as every black luminary with a biopic in the works: Joe Louis, Thurgood Marshall, Rick James. Howard calls the attention "overwhelming. Because you know you haven't done anything different. You start becoming real superstitious?you don't know what...
...disciples who beseech Jesus for the most prominent eternal seats in heaven. Their desire springs from a universal impulse for distinction, said King--"this quest for recognition ... this drum major instinct." An extreme drum major "ends by trying to push others down to push himself up," he warned, driving racism in culture and arrogance in nations. Yet Jesus in the Bible account does not rebuke James and John for their ambition itself, but teaches instead that true reward follows humble service. Here King's message turned. "And the great issue of life," he declared, "is to harness the drum major...
It’s also worth pointing out that, while racism is far from absent in Australian life today, a beach riot between gangs of Lebanese and non-Lebanese youths does not amount to evidence of national racism or even racism per se. Cultural hostilities (on both sides) and ugly displays of nationalism, sure, but Moore draws a long bow to relate this to a history of color-based immigration policies...
...many ways liberal institutions have come a long way. However, it should not take, say, the Ku Klux Klan to rise to prominence once again on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in order for there to be a public acknowledgement that subtle and explicit racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination are widespread, and sometimes violent, realities for minorities at liberal universities...
...Thoreson ’07, co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA). Thoreson said he began planning the event after observing the similarities between different groups on campus that act as umbrellas for other organizations. “There is a history of racism in the queer community, beyond Harvard, as well as a history of focusing on one identity to the exclusion of communities outside that identity,” Thoreson said. “At Harvard we have mechanisms for solving that problem. After we leave, however, those mechanisms disappear, which...