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First, although there is much to celebrate in the decline of Jim Crow Racism, our institutions and culture still bear a deeply disfiguring scar best described as Laissez-Faire Racism. Prior to World War II most white Americans accepted Jim Crow Racism. They supported segregated schools and housing, endorsed clear preferences for whites over blacks in access to employment, and flatly rejected the idea of racially mixed marriages. All of this rested upon the belief that African-Americans were inherently inferior. Today these views stand in disrepute. Most white Americans now say that we should be an integrated...
Denver at Scar...
...fable of Simba the lion cub, who believes he has caused his father's death and exiles himself out of shame, is perhaps the most powerful of all the Disney latter-day cartoon myths. The story still depends too much on the exaggerated villainy of Simba's uncle Scar (John Vickery, nicely reprising Jeremy Irons' silky voicing of the character in the film); can't a kid disobey his father without help? And some of the comedy here, especially Geoff Hoyle's hammy-English-butler routine as Zazu, is more labored than in the film. But the show...
...smell of smoke lingered in the entryway yesterday and a large, sickle-shaped scar is visible on the wooden door...
While his hearing loss comes early for us, it may not be a minute too soon for Clinton. Presidents have long used their infirmities to deflect attention from their mistakes. Funny how Lyndon Johnson unveiled his appendectomy scar during the Vietnam quagmire. Remember that Woodrow Wilson's stroke muted criticism of his failure to bring the U.S. into the League of Nations. More recently, Reagan joked about getting shot, and his popularity shot up. His favorability leaped again after he waved cheerily from his hospital room, fresh from having had polyps removed from his colon. That feel-good moment...