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...about the role of incarceration in a democracy and how racial paranoia has led us to warehouse and surveil millions of citizens. Prisons are thus the new frontier for the civil rights struggle. And though this movement will certainly be less photogenic than old church ladies being brutalized by racist police officers while trying to vote, we must not shy away from one of our generation’s major callings. The enemy may be more challenging than segregation, but at this rate, if nothing is done, we will find ourselves in the midst of a prison society that...
...Detractors point to abundant evidence that authority in Britain is not always benign: racist police botch major investigations; faulty government databases regularly cause chaos; people are imprisoned for crimes it later turns out they did not commit. When the heat of his struggle with Quinn subsides, Blunkett - if he survives as Home Secretary - will be standing in a landscape littered with evidence that even good people can do screwy things. The next time Britain's top cop is writing a bill to stiffen punishments or restrict liberties, that's something he would do well to remember...
...America, he was discussing its special challenges with Kamoun. "He told me, 'Josée, this one's got a word that might be a bit difficult,'" she recalls. The book's narrative hinges on a misunderstanding of "spooks," which is both a term for ghosts and a 1950s racist slur for African-Americans. Sitting in her book-filled Paris apartment, Kamoun, 53, explains that she quickly thought of the word zombies, which in French can have its own derogatory double meaning. But it wasn't quite right. She was eventually forced to rely on the translator's last resort...
...There’s some rot in Eminem, some ugly bitterness and insecurity that has not gone away despite his enormous popularity. He wasn’t cool in high school, in other words (see “Oh Foolish Pride” a.k.a. the “Source Racist Tape”), and even though he’s pretty cool now, the resentment’s still in him and it colors everything he does. The new album is a demonstratively detached exercise in dorky weirdness and juvenile mockery—a bit like his first album...
...Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we’re guided by these laws... When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that’s a bastardized rendering of a faith...