Word: racism
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...Jewish settler justifying confiscation of Palestinian land explained: "It is simple, we are the children of God, the Palestinians are the servants of God!" It is against such fanaticism and racism that peace loving Palestinians and Israelis should work to secure a future based on mutual recognition of national rights. --Ramy M. Tadros...
...author was still fairly young, and nearly all of them feature drifting, youthful protagonists. 'A Party down at the Square' tells the story of a lynching from the point of view of a white boy. It is a masterpiece, exploring from the inside the clubby, seductive nature of racism. In the memorable title story, a young black pilot crashes during a training flight. When an old, poor black man and his son come across the crash site, the pilot feels "cut off from them by age, by understanding, by sensibility, by technology." Later, a white landowner has the pilot taken...
...prosperity, most people understood there was something rotten in Denmark. Whatever. Along with moderate politics went moderate will, moderate standards of conduct, moderate rage. The country might turn its head away from certain unpleasant, blatant facts, but it knew that it had done nothing about poverty, nothing about persistent racism, nothing for education, for its homeless or for its deserted children, rich and poor. Neither had it indicated that it would use its newly unrivaled power to keep mass murder down in the rest of the world...
...Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi, written by Lewis Colick, purrs along like a TV movie with a grander budget. And like those fact-based disease-of-the-week dramas (the virus here is racism), this one is defeated by its lack of suspense. The case's outcome isn't the only thing that's predictable; so are the prejudices and motives of nearly every character...
Like Mississippi Burning, Cry Freedom and other well-meaning movies about race, Ghosts of Mississippi is not really about the black civil rights struggle. It's about the white liberal's burden--the crusade, waged by some stalwart fellow with star quality, to purge his community of official racism and to help all those decent people of color in the supporting cast. And of course the black actors don't get to play anything so interesting as a villain. Goldberg has to fashion Myrlie into a plaster saint, smothered by reverence, while Woods, snorting some invisible snuff, can have...