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...scorn the whites who loved minstrel shows and pity the blacks who had to play in them. But there are shades of culpability. Astaire, donning blackface for his Bojangles of Harlem number, probably thought (from ignorance, not malice) that he was paying sincere tribute to the great dancer Bill Robinson. As for Mantan Moreland, the black comic whose bug-eyed mugging in Charlie Chan films earns Lee's particular ire, he also was the star of films made for, and presumably appreciated by, the black audience. Perhaps we all have 20/20 vision of the past; it's the present that...
...something very dramatic with her race: she punctuated what she stood for. "She is capable of great power," said Australian writer Tom Keneally. "I'm skeptical about the idea that sports changes things any more than poetry or fiction can do, but this is quite like when Jackie Robinson played major league baseball in America, and if any sports event can change things, this one has a chance...
...registration drive began during first-year course registration, when students could register and obtain an absentee ballot at Robinson Hall...
...other Aussies about it, and none of them said that Cathy was crazy. I asked the writer Tom Keneally and he said, "I'm very skeptical about the idea that sports changes things any more than poetry or fiction can do, but this is quite like when Jackie Robinson played major league baseball in America, and if any sports event can change things, this one has a chance. It represents the strongest putting of the question to Australia by an Aboriginal in years. It makes us ask: If it's okay for Cathy Freeman to be an Aboriginal because...
...then UMass midfielder Patty Robinson made the perfect attack on the subsequent play. Taking the ball from the left corner and digging from some hidden reservoir of strength, she darted along the end line towards the net at full speed. After evading the Harvard defense, she unleashed a hard shot past Zacarian from point-blank range...