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...certainly wasn't the first time that racist abuse rained down from the stands of a Spanish sports arena. But when spectators at Barcelona's Montmeló track greeted Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton wearing blackface and chanting ugly taunts this past weekend, they may just have provoked an unprecedented official response: sanctions with teeth...
...enough to combat a larger problem. "The real issue is that Spaniards have a habit of not taking this kind of thing seriously," says Esteban Ibarra, president of the Movement against Intolerance, a watchdog group. "There's a banalization, a permissiveness in the face of racist incidents that worries me more than the incidents themselves. As long as society as a whole continues to see these crimes as insignificant, they're going to recur...
...attributed to a dearth in African art itself—the Fogg and the Peabody museums are both home to several collections of African art that have remained in storage for years. The survey calls for a permanent African art gallery and condemns the “archaic, racist views that are causing these collections to be ignored.” As the Harvard University Art Museums move forward with their plans for the organization and development of new museums, we echo the survey’s call for a permanent gallery for African art, though we find the claim...
...125th Street, Harlem's main artery. But his effect on her candidacy has come into question. To many in this community, the former president's recent jabs at Obama's record felt like sucker punches. "Bill Clinton is perceived in this community now, with all due respect, as a racist," says New York State Senator Bill Perkins, one of the few members of the Harlem political establishment campaigning for Obama. Luther Smith, an opeative in the Clinton campaign's field office, concedes that "many people had questions" about the former President's comments. But he shrugs off the suggestion that...
...funny!). A more caustic and fallible Lincoln appears in Lincoln and Douglas, which is surprisingly rip-roaring for a book about a series of debates in an Illinois Senate campaign. Lincoln makes fun of Stephen Douglas' height (5 ft. 4 in., or 1.63 m) and panders to his racist constituency. But he was always learning?you can watch him evolve before your eyes into the great man he had yet to become...