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...Council investigates, the situation in the projects gets more and more combustible, with racist white cops on one side and vaguely offensive straw-men of feisty blacks on the other. And then, that plot line sort of disappears just in time for “The Soprano’s” Edie Falco to arrive as the leader of a group of mothers who organize hunts for missing children. Falco has the magic power of importing hundreds of volunteers on a moments notice...
...characters are multi-dimensional. The males in the projects are lazy, unemployed, oversexed stereotypes, or Al Sharpton imitators. The females are “ghetto-fabulous” shrillers. The cops are stupid, blatantly racist pigs. It’s a wonder anything gets done in this city. Ah, Jersey...
SPEAKING OF STEREOTYPES, this provocative series attacks them using tricks of unreality entertainment: makeup and prosthetics. A black and a white family each get made over to live life as members of the other's race. As illuminating as their undercover experiences (a white stranger casually shares racist opinions with the "white" father) are their conflicting interpretations of racial nuances (was a salesman nice to the "black" father out of friendliness--or fear that he was going to steal something?). This is an extreme--and edifying--makeover indeed...
...believe that Shai Bronshtein’s comment “Hardly Racist” (Feb. 5) misrepresents the point of view of most people who have been protesting Spencer Gifts’ allegedly racist T-shirts. Bronshtein begins his editorial by stating that he differs from the protesters in that he “support[s] Spencer Gifts’ right to produce” the T-shirts. Having closely followed the debate over the T-shirts on Cambridge Common and other forums of student discussion, I can confidently state that the average protester also supports Spencer Gifts?...
...character,” but he neglects to mention that they show much more than that: they depict a bucktoothed, mentally-deficient-looking Asian character who wears his hair in a rattail-like queue. Although this hairstyle is no longer popular in Asia, this is exactly how 19th-century racist propaganda depicted the immigrants from Asia who comprised the “yellow peril.” Bronshtein neglects to mention these aspects of the T-shirt images. He also fails to place the image of the pigtailed Chinaman in a historical context. It is not only because...