Word: respectibility
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Black identity was historically progressive in another important respect: from very early in the 19th century through the civil rights movement, it was strikingly cosmopolitan. Black leaders took a deep interest in oppressed peoples throughout the world. The Pan-African movement and early black nationalism were part of emerging notions of black solidarity. Blacks took deep pride in the Haitian revolution, and black American missionaries played an important role in the Christianization of Jamaican and other West Indian blacks. Black Americans were also open to the inspiration of black immigrants: W.E.B. DuBois's father was Haitian; James Weldon Johnson...
Journalists enjoy gaffes as a slight taste of human reality at the banquet of artifice where they sup. But a small secret is that journalists don't mind spin either. A politician's ability to spin is a measure of his or her professionalism, which journalists respect. Furthermore, spin needs to be interpreted, which is the journalist's job. If politicians were totally truthful, political journalists would be out of business...
...Early garnered more critical acclaim than he’s gotten in his full twenty-five year career, can anyone picture an ad for “Norbit” featuring the words “starring Oscar Winner” and take it seriously? Would anyone have more respect for the next installment in “The Nutty Professor” franchise? Some weighty competition will come from Wahlberg, whose fast-talking turn in “The Departed” steals every scene, and former child star Haley, who, as fate would have it, plays a pedophile...
...affiliation to the subject. Hints that an author may be suffering from RAS include abrupt transitions to fictional works that James could not plausibly have read; one page in the prologue offers up tidy gems from Sartre and the “great Hasidic masters.” With respect to James’ reaction to the death of his father, isn’t it a trifle much to call his preoccupation with the bare emptiness of life “half a premonition of Allen Ginsberg”? At least a reference to similar expressions in the works...
...opposition to the Bush Administration's "New" Middle East. But that wasn't the only message. At the end of the evening, Ambassador Akhtire lingered long enough to say goodbye to us. "If America wants trust in the Middle East, it has to have a balanced policy based on respect, and which deals with the root causes of problems," he told...