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While it has recently become fashionable to occasionally poke fun at political correctness, particularly in the entertainment industry--take, for example, films like Bulworth and the highly rated television show "Politically Incorrect"--the undercurrent of homophobia and racism in Dog Days goes much too far. There seems to be some kind of degrading homosexual joke or insinuation in nearly every chapter, not to mention the constant marginalization of the Italians living in the North End. Perhaps Lyons fully intended to explore the pre-existing homoerotic relationship between Reilly and his roommate Even, a scenario that would have admittedly been more...
...pedigree of prejudice often leads through prison. Berry and King served time on the same burglary charge. It was in prison that they met the third suspect, Lawrence Russell Brewer, 31. Says Bill Hale of the Texas Human Rights Commission: "If someone has a predisposition to racism, it will be reinforced in prison." King was involved in a racial disturbance between Anglo and Hispanic prisoners in 1995. The Houston Chronicle reported last week that he sent letters from prison proclaiming race hatred and allegiance to the Aryan Brotherhood, a white-supremacist gang founded in California's San Quentin State Prison...
...problems of the inner city go far deeper than a slim section of jobs in the want ads. Interviewees consistently say that the sense of community, the thread that once held urban cities together, has frayed and, in some cases, split altogether. They talk about neighborhoods polarized by racism, gang violence, drug proliferation, loss of cultural identity and domestic violence. The candor is stark; the level of detail often horrifying...
...know I spent more time with Tudjman than everyone else combined," Galbraith says. "He's a very rigid personality with a sense of his own place. He was convinced that Bosnia should not exist as a country. He showed extreme racism against Bosnian Muslims...
...Street Corner Symphony," the next act, traces the recent turmoil that the black community has faced due to racism. Two particularly captivating moments take place during this act: Reynolds draws howls and cheers from the audience with one raised eyebrow as she struts around stage in a spicy outfit during "1967-Hot Fun." A minute later, the deadly pounding of drums echoes the dancers' intense and slow-burning rage in "1977-Blackout...