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...Spinning Into Butter” displays enough unintentional racism in 86 minutes to keep Al Sharpton busy for the next century. First-time director Mark Brokaw aspires to contribute to an intelligent dialogue about race, but ends up creating a misguided After School Special. Despite its pedagogical goals, the ridiculous dialogue, shallow characters, and uninteresting plot prevent the film from raising any fruitful questions.The movie is based on the acclaimed play of the same name and was written for the screen by the original playwright, Rebecca Gilman. The play was named one of the best productions of 1999 by Time...
...response to recent incidents of racism on campus, about 200 undergraduates flocked to the Science Center lawn at noon yesterday to participate in the “Many Colors, One Harvard” rally. The demonstration—which was sponsored by more than 40 Harvard student groups—was held partially as a show of solidarity following an incident on March 6 in which racist comments were scrawled on the walls of Lowell Grille after a graffiti-themed party that was hosted by the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Student Association. As speakers blared music in the background, the multiracial...
...Asian-associated student organizations—including the Asian American Brotherhood, Chinese Student Association, Harvard Vietnamese Association, Asian American Association, Half-Asian People’s Association, Harvard Philippine Forum, and Korean Student Association—united to organize a rally that took place yesterday decrying this act of racism...
...rally was a symbolic and reactionary gesture that did not begin to address the underlying, Harvard-specific issues that may have incited these incendiary comments in the first place. Though it may have raised some awareness about issues of discrimination and intolerance, the blanket statement it issued against racism was so uncontroversial as to be ineffectual—in the end, the rally was just action for action’s sake...
It’s a shame that the Asian-American response was not more substantial, for anti-Asian racism is a real problem that deserves serious discussion. Subtle racism is particularly pervasive in the American media; the reporting on Chinese affairs in the New York Times, for instance, is not so different in spirit from the comments left on the Lowell walls. Take for example, a recent New York Times article on the “50th Anniversary of Democratic Reforms in Tibet,” which has a headline reading, “Tibet Atrocities Dot Official Chinese History...