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Toni Morrison perhaps cannot write for black men, Mailer judges, though qualifying his remark with the warning that he has only read “one or two” of Morrison’s novels, so his perspective may be skewed. In fact the entire section in which this note occurs, “A Lagniappe for the Reader,” assumes his audience will regard any peek into Mailer’s thought processes as a privilege...
Cohen cites a Life Magazine reporter who wrote about the Myers family, the first black family in a Levittown, Pa. neighborhood, as an example of the resistance to racial integration of consumption. The reporter captured a telling remark from a neighbor: “He’s probably a nice guy, but every time I look at him I see $2,000 drop off the value of my home...
...gave up, not having made one sale, got one rude remark or seen one woman in her underwear. Lanza told me I was a bit "uptight" and shouldn't "walk like a robot." I was starting to rethink my thesis about the salespeople being nicer than the customers...
...audience. Asked his opinion on Yao Ming, the rookie center for the Houston Rockets, O’Neal derisively taunted in mock-Chinese, “Tell Yao Ming, ‘ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.’” Far from condemning this inappropriate remark, Bruno found O’Neal’s comment amusing, inviting listeners to call in with jokes on this topic...
Vaux made his comment with nothing but good intentions, or at the least, decidedly neutral ones. But his remark reflected a blindness to the still unresolved tensions that surround us. I appreciate all parties’ attempts to discuss this issue. As we do, we find that an issue remains unresolved, and until it is, we must speak with a heightened sensitivity to and about one another...