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...This is a decisive period: we're fighting for anti-racist, anti-capitalist notions," said Davis. "We're fighting to defend the tools acquired in progressive struggle...
...racist entitled to as fair a trial as a pornographer? The good people of Mississippi--all right, the bad white people--gave Byron De La Beckwith every benefit of the doubt in his 1964 trials for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Two hung juries and a quarter- century later, a Jackson prosecutor (Alec Baldwin, who's good in a tough role) reopens the case, goaded by Evers' widow Myrlie (Whoopi Goldberg). He has a chance: this time the gabby, unrepentant Beckwith (James Woods) is facing a jury that is largely black...
...those who want differences treated with equality are pursuing what should be the American ideal. Krauthammer's most glaring omission, however, is his failure to propose any alternative to eliminating racial discrimination in the workplace. Declaring that such discrimination is illegal naively assumes that the institutionalized and dangerously covert racist attitudes that made affirmative action necessary in the first place can be legislated away. It fails to ask the bottom-line question, Who has the power here? DANIEL A. MILLS Portland, Oregon
...believe any sort of boost should be necessary," Kao says. "Affirmative action is inherently racist [and] it breeds a sense of self-doubt. You have to wonder, 'Am I where I am because of who I am or what I look like...
Fortunately, the rest of the evidence tampering was pretty routine. Planting hairs on the knit cap and the victim's shirt; planting fibers on the glove, the socks and the shirt; planting carpet fibers on the cap--as a racist cop, Yamauchi had done these sorts of things a thousand times before. Even his boss, Michele Kestler, didn't deem it necessary to oversee Yamauchi's work, preferring to focus on the ongoing cover...