Word: racism
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...into a woman he had a crush on in high school. Now she's married to the former class hero, who is black. A triangle ensues. But all is not as it seems. LaBute usually shows the impossibility of men connecting with women; here he shows the implacability of racism that lurks in the heart of even nice guys. Ben Stiller, Jeffrey Wright and Amanda Peet star in George C. Wolfe's crackling off-Broadway production of a daring playwright's best play. --By Richard Zoglin
...thought of him when, years later, people started telling me how All in the Family had changed our culture. I didn't know what people were talking about. I thought if a couple thousand years of the Judeo-Christian ethic hadn't corrected racism and lack of equal opportunity and so forth, my little half-hour situation comedy wasn't going to do it either. Then I remembered my grandfather, standing at a lake with me when I was 11 or so. I was dropping stones in the water, and my grandfather told me that each time...
...precipitated sweetheart deals, Macozoma notes that none of the new black élite "control any independent capital" that would otherwise allow them to influence corporate South Africa and that their investments are "often at [their own] considerable financial risk." He also sees more than a touch of racism in the criticism: "It appears that white South Africans are prepared to commit class suicide in defense of the status quo. If I were a white South African, I would welcome a situation where black people join my class and take on some of my values...
This is not to say that not everything abroad is peachy keen: xenophobia, racism, and homophobia were far more prevalent in my Irish town, welcoming its first wave of immigrants, than at Harvard. Elsewhere, my friends saw poverty and repression. Our eyes were opened to evils beyond the ones we knew. One can’t see these things and remain unaffected...
...York Post, he is quoting as saying that he thought racism was part of it and then he went on to say: “I know that there were irregularities in Mr. [John] Edwards’s [presidential campaign] . . . I know there were questions about John Kerry’s mortgaging his house for his campaign. I don’t know of any of them being wiretapped.” Do you know what irregularities he may be referring...