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...will never know how often racist white police officers pull people over because they belong to a minority. But there are some signs that police departments have improved over the past 25 years. Since 1976, the number of African Americans killed by police each year has fallen by more than half, according to the Justice Department, from a rate of about 11 per million to 5 per million in 1998. With a few notable exceptions--Los Angeles, for one--most departments are less corrupt and more accountable than ever...
...hail a cab going uptown toward Harlem after dark. And I'll admit to feeling a new nervousness. This simple action--black man hailing cab--is now a tableau in America's ongoing culture war. If no cab swerves in to pick me up, America is still a racist country, and the entire superstructure of contemporary liberalism is bolstered. If I catch a ride, conservatives can breath easier. So, as I raise my hand and step from the curb, much is at stake...
...Those who run the city seemed shell-shocked. Was this a "simple" race riot expressing (however illegally) frustration at segregation and police harassment and unemployment? Or a bunch of thugs pumped up on testosterone and booze? Or drug dealers getting back at police? Or a master plan by white racists, after earlier riots in Oldham and Burnley, to whip up trouble in a series of northern English cities? All these explanations had their advocates. On the airwaves and on the streets, feelings were mixed - fury at the rioters, some anger at the police for weak tactics - but mostly fear that...
...ravenous maw for content, more diverse and complex shows are entering the rerun canon. Cartoon Network (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner) not only spun off the Boomerang channel of old cartoons for nostalgic adults (Get it? Boomerang?) but also inspired a heated was-Bugs-Bunny-racist debate last month when it excised anti-Japanese World War II-era shorts from a Bugs marathon. One-season wonders like My So-Called Life and Action have found second lives on MTV and FX. Video stores shelve Ally McBeal next to All of Me. Critics can debate endlessly whether...
...aside from David Duke's, of what my people now refer to as "the N word." But since I'm being paid to grapple with the subject, I would wager that Rock is making a point about how street culture celebrates boorish behavior, and how that can feed racist stereotypes, and how dispiriting that is. As with all great comedians--which is to say, as with all original thinkers--Rock's insights are beyond tidy labels such as "black," "white," "left," "right," "offensive" or "as harmlessly amusing as Friends." Unlike many of today's allegedly political comics, whose insights...