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...current charge against Bardot was lodged by the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP), citing a letter Bardot wrote to French officials in 2004 in which she alluded to Muslims as "this population that leads us around by the nose, [and] which destroys our country." The former actress-turned-animal rights crusader had written that letter to protest the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Kabir. Her missive, whose contents were later leaked to the media, had been sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose rising popularity was based in part...
...While the inclusion of these supporting characters might deflect allegations of racism, they do little to address the real problem here: “21” is a very stupid movie. It should have lived up to the expectations of people who actually care about Mezrich’s book, its characters and meaning. Alas, critics hated it, the Media Action Network for Asian-Americans found it ‘pathetic’ and many MIT affiliates and involved personalities seem to have disowned it—precisely because the real human element was mortgaged and forgotten in favor...
...Obama's mother cared deeply about helping poor women, and she had two biracial children. But neither of them remembers her talking about sexism or racism. "She spoke mostly in positive terms: what we are trying to do and what we can do," says Soetoro-Ng, who is now a history teacher at a girls' high school in Honolulu. "She wasn't ideological," notes Obama. "I inherited that, I think, from her. She was suspicious of cant." He remembers her joking that she wanted to get paid as much as a man, but it didn't mean she would stop...
...commentary on race. “‘The Wire’ is not a depiction of the African-American experience in America,” he said. “Nor is it a history of white folk in America.”Canada disagreed, arguing that racism had played a role in making the drug trade such an integral part of American life, and black life in particular. “Kids to some degree are expendable. If you had the same issue with white kids in America, everyone would be talking on the news...
...Obama is complicit in Wright's divisiveness. In failing to apologize for his bigotry, Wright enslaves his congregation to his hate. The fact that other African-American ministers have come forward to state that they have made similarly bigoted remarks suggests that there is much healing to be done. Racism is racism, no matter who practices it. David H. Herman, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania...