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...playing well in New York and Boston. Running a spectrum from “Amos and Andy” to Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled,” the black faced performer is a mime that may reflect social irony as well as racism. I believe that Knipp is an interesting character, and his act is tinged with a little of both, as is modern society. Overall, his homage to the black urban woman is one of comic respect. The protests seems heavy handed and somewhat mean-spirited, and I am sure that this performer would...
...Give Cal a Certificate of Attendance award. Call him the Strom Thurmond of baseball. But don't make him a hero. Save that designation for Gehrig. Or Jackie Robinson, and the great black stars before him whom institutional racism kept from playing in the bigs. Or the famously reckless, play-through-pain Pete Reiser (who was so mangled after hitting the wall at Ebbets Field in 1947 that he was given the last rites, and played on). Or Pete Gray, who lost an arm in childhood yet still played a year in the majors. Or some schmo with average skills...
...recently released a rap C.D. he calls “danceable education,” is a candidate for the post. But conflict ensues when university president Winthrop criticizes what he calls Sanders’ focus on non-academic issues—concern that Sanders says is motivated by racism...
While Summers said he regrets what he called a miscommunication, West in the spring accepted a professorship at Princeton. He told National Public Radio’s Tavis Smiley last year that though he had not invoked racism as a cause, it seemed plausible...
...never said that students and professors who signed the petition were anti-Semitic.” (Letters, “Debate Coverage Misses Point of Article,” Oct. 9) It is, I suppose, good news that he dissociates himself from the blatant assertion of racism attributed...