Word: racists
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...back to Mr. Jingles? He has befriended the death-row inmates and guards who are The Green Mile's core cast of characters (the Mile itself is a painted corridor the cons must walk to what is inevitably known as Old Sparky). Set in the deep, sleepy and racist South of 1932, the novel asks the question, What if a hulking but gentle and close-to-mute black man with a gift for Christlike healing were sentenced to die for the brutal kidnapping and murder-rape of two little white girls--crimes he may or may not have committed? There...
...Broadway's biggest recent hits, the rock opera Rent and the tap-dance epic Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk, in some respects stand in opposition to all that. Rent is about fighting landlords and hiv; Noise/Funk is about struggling with the Man, racist cab drivers and whitewashed history. Still, despite the populist appeal of these shows, you can see them in only one place, in one city; and--with a few exceptions--a good pair of seats is going to cost you around $140. The characters portrayed in these shows couldn't afford to see them...
Once he returned to the civilian world, the "movement" embraced him. His racist friends even helped him find a wife. "They wrote and asked if I was meeting skinhead girls," Leyden remembers. "When I said it was hard in Hawaii, white-power girls on the mainland started to write." Leyden clicked with Nicole Rodman, who met him at the airport when he returned to California. They had an Aryan wedding two weeks after meeting and were legally married...
...George, Utah, and when he lost his job there, to Hailey, Idaho. (Nicole declined to comment for this story.) The marriage began to fall apart, and Leyden says he reached a torturous emotional crossroad: he even contemplated striking out to locate remnants of the Order, the near extinct racist commando units smashed by federal authorities more than a decade...
...shrug off his former titles as Nazi and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, David Duke is hoping for a new label: U.S. Senator. Duke entered the U.S. Senate race on Wednesday, promising to fight for America's white, Christian heritage if he's elected. "I am not a racist and not a Nazi sympathizer," Duke retorted angrily to questions about his past. Duke said his main focus will be to restore and protect "the prosperity, the heritage and freedom of this country." According to Duke's home page on the Internet, heritage is defined as white and Christian. Duke, along...