Word: racism
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...midst of the 1998 Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins), a distinguished classics professor at a small Massachusetts liberal arts college, embroils himself in a microcosm of similar scandal and tragedy: one chance comment in class provokes an accusation of racism that culminates in his resignation and the death of his wife. As if thumbing his nose at any further political correctness, Silk then meets Faunia Farely (Nicole Kidman), a cleaning woman half his age whose shattered life is at least as complex as his own, and starts sleeping with her. As Silk’s last love...
Sharpton’s catchy rhetoric has earned him as many skeptics from both parties as has his controversial past, which is tainted by missing financial records, sketchy political donors and claims of anti-white racism. Sharpton has still not apologized for his 1988 rape accusations against a New York prosecutor, even after the accuser, Tawana Brawley, was found to be lying...
...speech in a statement released by the E.U. Chirac insisted that the summit was not the appropriate place to express his condemnation of Mahathir’s insidious words. That begs the question, then, of what an “appropriate” venue to denounce racism would be. Surely one would have thought that a meeting of the world’s great liberal democracies—nations committed to the ideals of freedom, and pluralism—would be the ideal pulpit from which to take a strong stand against racism. What better place to face down...
...levels of class struggle and economics, in just racial terms. And it is wrong, in the sense that these people are not wholly defined and owned by the color of their skin. But it’s right to acknowledge the realities of many Latin American societies, because the racism and nationalism and class elitism are so interwoven parts of the same oppressive tapestry...
...Chilean. It’s interesting to me that when you want to really insult someone in Chile, you call them a “Peruano,” or resident of Peru. The insult’s sting comes not just from base nationalism, but a level of racism as well. The Peruvians in Chile are not the rich or the powerful or the white, but the indigenous women who come to serve as maids in upper class Chilean households. With this understanding of who “Peruvians” are to white Chileans, it is implicitly understood...