Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ACQUITTED. BRIGITTE BARDOT, 62, 1950s sex kitten turned animal-rights crusader; of charges of inciting racism; in Paris. The accusation stemmed from a Bardot letter published last year in a French newspaper decrying Muslim sacrificial slaughter of sheep, likening it to pagan rituals...
...Mosley's other novels, the plot is mostly incidental, a prop for his rich characterizations and astute social observations. In Fishin', Easy emerges as an Everyman of the segregated pre-World War II rural South: semiliterate, marginally employed, the victim of numerous acts of offhand racism. He inhabits a blues-toned, all-black world of juke joints, odd jobs and broken people wrestling with the same dilemma: "If all you got is two po'k chops an' ten chirren, what you gonna do?" The answer: improvise and live with the consequences...
...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...
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...