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...Davis: "No march, movement or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners...can be considered a positive step." Jesse Jackson, who may fear being eclipsed by Farrakhan, joined the march without hesitation, but others, from Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke to the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, offered exquisitely calibrated statements of support that distinguished the march from its organizer. "I don't accept hate-filled, antiwhite, anti-Semitic language coming from anybody," Schmoke said, but he would be marching "because I think it is an important event...
...plot line: Hester's difficulty with her love child Pearl. But this Hester is readier to be martyr and lover than seamstress and mother. She is, you see, America's prototype feminist. (Caucasian feminist, that is--Pocahontas, in the Disney cartoon, beat Hester to the p.c. punch.) And the Rev, weak in the novel, is now a fiery film hero, deserving of the preposterous happy ending the filmmakers tack...
...pernitions of her long-lost husband Roger (Robert Duvall). But this plot doesn't kick in until about the 11th or 12th hour of the film. Director Roland Joffe dwells instead on the nude bodies of Moore (caressing herself) and Oldman (skinny-dipping) as Hester and the Rev fall in lust. And stay around for their epochally silly sex scene. It makes Hester's secret seem more like Victoria...
...march presented a vision of hope. Speakers such as Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Maya Angelou and Rev. Jesse Jackson inspired the jubilant crowd. And yes, even Minister Louis Farrakhan, though long-winded, preached a message that emphasized courage and faith. He was unflinching in his rebuke of white supremacy as well as black wrongs. All Americans should have listened to him. His speech was not a hateful rant nor the message of a bigot...
...beginning to look as though that may be encouragement enough for individual pastors and congregants. The Rev. Cecil Murray, minister at Los Angeles' renowned First A.M.E. Church, says he is planning to send a contingent of "several hundred," some of whom may take advantage of a special $299 round-trip plane fare arranged by march organizers. The Rev. Timothy McDonald III, a march supporter and minister at Atlanta's First Iconium Baptist Church, estimates that 50 churches in his area will participate. Travel agents report that flights from Chicago to D.C. on Oct. 15 and 16 are jammed tight. District...