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LEVITY. In some alternate universe, I’m sure that Billy Bob Thornton can go two years at a time without being cast as a killer, a psycho or a racist. In our universe, though, he is headlining the find-yourself drama Levity, playing a convicted murderer who has just been released from prison after 22 years. Back in the free world, he finds his way with the help of Holly Hunter as the sister of Thornton’s victim and Morgan Freeman as a local reverend (playing a man of God before warming up to play...
Over the course of the past 60 years, the American soldier has liberated Nazi death camps; thwarted Japanese attempts to build a racist, fascist empire in east Asia; saved millions of Koreans from the horrors of a Stalinist police state; fought valiantly to protect the freedom of the South Vietnamese; ended the torture, rape and murder of innocent Kuwaitis; and helped stop gruesome slaughter and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. Moreover, for roughly 40 of those years the American soldier also protected Western Europe from Soviet aggression—a noble undertaking that ensured countless millions would never have...
...will and the power to upend the idiotic myopia of the sport's other sachems. (Were they afraid that blacks couldn't play baseball or afraid that they could play it too well?) Rickey had been searching for an athlete whose poise matched his skills, who could swallow the racist insults sure to be directed at him by players and fans--someone, Rickey told Robinson at their first meeting, "with guts enough not to fight back." Robinson was the man. The first four-sport star at UCLA, an Army veteran, a budding Negro League phenom, Robinson neither smoke nor drank...
...Toronto to Georgia to oblige. Since both of them are single, they begin flirting, with Paul teasing her about her Dan Fogelberg CD. But when Cindy sends Paul, who is black, on an after-hours errand to the closed Dairy Freez he gets picked up by a pair of racist cops. This unexpected change-up highlights both Ollmann's admirable ambitions and his difficulties. The cliched depiction of the southern cops seems as equally prejudiced as the racism they are meant to represent. Still, Ollmann's desire to explore important subject and his ability to provide an emotional payoff with...
While Harvard students tend to steer clear of overtly racist remarks, it is not uncommon to hear jokes rich in perpetration of Asian-American stereotypes. These usually revolve around the notion that Asian students are bookish and nerdy, to the extent that they don’t enjoy or understand non-academic activities, especially sports. I should know these jokes, because I am definitely guilty of making them, and so are Asian students themselves...