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...only the Rev. Al Sharpton were a movie critic! If only Johnnie Cochran could file a damage suit for cinematic misconduct! If only Hollywood did not have such an exploitative view of the young black urban audience this gratuitously violent and graceless remake of Shaft is meant to attract! The problem is not just that Jackson, normally as good an actor as they come, is to Roundtree what George Lazenby, who played James Bond in the deservedly forgotten On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), is to Sean Connery. It's that instead of updating the heroic Shaft...
...Black Students Association (BSA), the Black Men's Forum (BMF) and the Harvard African Students' Association led weeks of activity that included numerous protests, a candlelit vigil and forums in which prominent black leaders like attorney Johnnie Cochran and the Reverend Al Sharpton spoke about racial issues...
...Diallo shooting also drew together groups from the College and Harvard's graduate schools. Sharpton spoke at the opening forum of the Black Law Students Association's (BLSA) spring conference, entitled "Discussion of Justice in Our Streets...
...need only look at the murders of innocent men committed by the NYPD to see that racism is hardly just a Southern problem. And where is the protest over Al Sharpton, whose anti-Semitism and xenophobia match Haider's? It seems to me that we're concentrating on the wrong things. Instead of actually trying to fight racism in America, we fall into the same trap that people who whistle "Dixie" do: We become trapped in the past...
...Behold the articles on page 29, "Democrats Play the Race Card While Calling People 'Cripple' and 'Fatso,'" and page 30, "Cabinet Secretaries Moonlight as Gore Flacks." And the cover story: a Gore Supreme Court lineup that's made up of Hillary and Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Naomi Wolf, Al Sharpton, Barbara Streisand, James Carville, Rosie O'Donnell and Larry Flynt...