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...have complained about being snubbed for starring roles on TV. So after the TV networks announced their fall lineups last spring, Kweisi Mfume arrived in Hollywood with his own script proposal. The N.A.A.C.P. president cast himself as the leading man, a swaggering yet politically correct Terminator of all things racist about Tinseltown. His first mission: to strong-arm the networks into hiring more minorities to work in front of and behind the cameras. Mfume's early salvos had the fire of civil rights rhetoric of the '60s, as he railed against the "virtual whitewash" on network TV. In private...
...prejudice: "I'm not a racist or a prejudiced person. But certain people bother...
...movie begins, it is America in the 1960's, and the ugly realities of racial politics are flaring up all over again. Rubin Carter, played by Denzel Washington, is a poor black boy made good as a professional boxer, "Hurricane" Carter. As a street urchin growing up in racist New Jersey, he defends a friend against a white pedophile and is unjustly sent to a correction home by a sinister police officer, Depalowski (Dan Hedaya). Escaping from the home, he makes it good as an army officer until Depalowski, hell-bent on persecuting Carter, sends him back to prison. Upon...
Powell, who reportedly showed up for his factory job with a freshly shaved head the morning after the shooting, doesn't have a criminal history. Councilman Dawson, who teaches at Westside Middle School, where Witmer was once a student, says Witmer "was always making racist remarks to other students. The word nigger rolled off his lips regularly." Witmer, who police say was driving the car as Powell fired on Richardson, was released in June after serving time in juvenile facilities for a handgun offense. "Everybody is going to have a different view of Alex," said a Witmer relative, who declined...
...Stein became a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where a rant about racist writing on The Jeffersons led to a job as a creative consultant for Norman Lear. Stein left D.C. for L.A., where he continued to write columns for publications ranging from Penthouse to Barron's, along with screenplays. John Hughes hired him when he was 40 to play a teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, asking him to speak extemporaneously on economics to a class. When Stein received applause from the crew members, he figured it was for successfully explaining the Hawley-Smoot Tariff...