Word: righteous
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...There is a thin line between righteous and self-righteous anger. An African-American friend, well acquainted with my political impatience, once said, "Joe, if you were black, you'd be in the streets with a machine gun." And so I can sympathize with Rangel and Belafonte-to a point. White racism is the original American sin; it helped create the culture of poverty that exists in places like New Orleans' Ninth Ward. And George W. Bush's dominant Republican Party was reborn in racism, having sided with Southern segregationists in the 1960s. But the tendency of some black baby...
...said that al-Zarqawi's organization "is believed to have been behind barbaric attacks in Iraq." It seems only fair to ask where, on the spectrum of barbarism, we would locate the killing of Iraqi civilians, the razing of Fallujah, the depravity at Abu Ghraib prison and the self-righteous obscenity at Guantánamo Bay? And how about the abandonment of the desperate hurricane victims in Louisiana and Mississippi? In Iraq, limitless U.S. resources are deployed, while at home poor Americans, thirsty and starving, founder in toxic effluent. All around the globe, people are watching, incredulous, as the Bush...
...retired gunman trying to outlive his old notoriety? Suffice to say that Cronenberg both criticizes the poison of violence and acknowledges its lure as a way of solving problems. Beyond that, it turns a hot topic into a pretty cool entertainment--one that satisfies the viewers' need for righteous revenge while leaving them a queasy little question on the way out: Does gun diplomacy make sense only in movies? Or do Americans want it to play out in real life...
Maybe we treat the story of Noah and the Ark too much like a fairy tale: line up the animals, imagine the growling and squeaking of the beasts all together-and brush right past the part about this festive convention occurring because everyone other than righteous Noah and his family had drowned. The story holds the promise of the rainbow, but that does not ward off the painful search for meaning every time man's negotiations with the land and sea and air appear to have collapsed, as they have so often in the past year...
...feel guilty?” incident, it is very insulting of him to suggest that Africans are “deluded” and live in a “dark continent.” It is such a condescending attitude that led his supposedly righteous British liberators to expel Africans from their arable lands leading to land problems that still trouble post-colonial African states. The same British were responsible for a gulag of 1.5 million Kenyans and the murder of hundreds of thousands well into the United Nations era. His other righteous liberators were even worse: the Germans...