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...what exactly does the book posit? The cornerstone premise for the Thernstroms is that things are not so bad as they seem, that both blacks and whites are better than, and different from, their stereotypes. Whites, they argue, are mischaracterized as a racist monolith, when in fact polls show a different picture. Whites surveyed in the 1940s wanted firm separation of the races, but by 1994 a majority told pollsters they have blacks as neighbors and close friends; at least a third say they have had blacks over for dinner...
...hypersegregated" city of Milwaukee. The narrative begins in 1991 with Milwaukeeans living under a black nationalist's threat of "all-out guerrilla warfare" in the city within five years. Throughout the book, Coleman finds white and black nerves fraying: a prosperous black Republican publisher relates the story of a racist slight at an awards banquet and tells Coleman, "You can achieve all you want to achieve in life, but you can't never get past being a nigger." In the end, Coleman says, it's up to whites, who "can either give up on the idea of racial harmony...
...soon share Gorbachev's fate at the polls, where newly enfranchised voters rejected him as a symbol of the past. That loss has haunted him. Today the 60-year-old De Klerk resigned the leadership of what is now the main opposition party, believing it could not shed its racist image under his stewarship. "Regardless of how unjustified this perception might be ? and it is unjustified ? it remains a problem for our party," he said...
Based on the 1968 biography by Marshall Frady (who also co-wrote the teleplay), the four-hour political biopic is a dark, powerful study of a populist so desperate not to be a common man that he peddles a racist ideology that, surprisingly, he doesn't even subscribe to. Gary Sinise, in one of his best performances, portrays the four-term Governor and three-time presidential candidate's Faustian descent from liberal to conservative rabble-rouser as a human tragedy. And director John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz) uses all his old tricks (handheld cameras, black-and-white...
...self-defense, a grand jury ruled yesterday. Although they lost the case, the incident has created new respect for the Texas Rangers, who rallied behind the teenager Esequiel Hernandes Jr.- presenting evidence in his favor. It was a peculiar twist, since the Rangers had previously been considered "legendarily racist in their dealings along the border," according to TIME's Sam Gwynne, who has been following the case...