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Berry, in her Oscar-winning part in Monster's Ball, plays a woman who falls in love with a recovering white racist. After Berry learns that her new love also happens to be the man who executed her husband, she puts up some token resistance, then meekly sticks with him. Even Lifetime TV-movie heroines fight back harder when they find out the men in their lives aren't who they purported to be. Washington, in his Oscar-winning role in Training Day, portrays a murderous, on-the-take narcotics detective. His performance is charged with lightning...
...would use the word to show people I have the right to use it, but I don’t condone it,” Scholl said. “I’m not a racist. My wife is Asian, my best friend is from India and I share an office with an African-American whose friendship, knowledge and resources I value...
...temporary moratorium on retaliatory attacks for acts of terrorism, give the Palestinian Authority five days to prevent terror attacks, and then begin to destroy entire Palestinian villages in response to each act of Palestinian terrorism. It is appalling to hear a supposed civil libertarian advocate such a blatantly racist course of action; it is inconceivable that Dershowitz would propose collective punishment if the victims were Americans or Jews...
These are hardly the words of a racist judge. In fact, Pickering’s record not only refutes the charge of racism, but suggests he is an especially capable jurist. As Judiciary Committee member Orrin Hatch argued last Thursday, Pickering’s reversal rate is lower than both the national average and the average for district court judges in the Fifth Circuit. And, as Hatch noted, almost all of the matters on which Pickering was reversed were minor issues unrelated to the substance of the case (such as the precise determination of legal fees to be paid...
...Pickering get picked on? At least one Democrat was straightforward about the reasoning behind his vote. The New York Times reports that Charles Schumer admitted that Pickering was “a decent and honorable man and certainly not a racist.” But Schumer went on to explain that the vote was about demonstrating the unacceptability of “stack[ing] the courts with Scalias and Thomases...