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...strange that a white boy from the suburbs of Los Angeles would find strength in a song that was born out of the African Diaspora. My ancestors did not come to America on slave ships. They were not threatened, lynched, or discriminated against because of the color of their skin. They did not sing Negro spirituals...
...confusion to blissful amour. His people are much more ordinary than that. Take Ben for example. He lives in a nest of nerds on the dwindling remains of a long-ago court settlement. They suck on bongs and beer bottles, vaguely plan a website that will direct readers to skin scenes in movies - not knowing, of course, that it's an already overcrowded field - and dream of dreamgirls they lack the social skills to approach in real life. But if their development is arrested, they are not really bad sorts. And that's where Alison comes...
...Crime: A sleeping, pregnant woman was attacked and assaulted at knifepoint in her bed in 1985 in Texas. The victim gave police a detailed description of her attacker, including clothing, facial features, age and height. She said he was a white man whose skin was "a honey brown color." Four months later, the victim saw Byrd, who is black, at a grocery store and said he was the man who had raped her. Based on this identification, Byrd was convicted of rape and sentenced to life in prison...
...mishandled. The students were not asked to leave the grounds. The fact that a call was made is not surprising—typically reasonable Harvard students transform into prima donnas during exam time. That some students were asked to show IDs rubs some people the wrong way because of skin color—the claim being that they were scrutinized based on being black in a way that white students would not be. On the other hand, if a group of noisy white students were asked to show their IDs, no one would think anything...
...only is it a quintessential Harvard event, but it is an event about showing skin,” said Krahel. “Since this issue is about the color of skin—but also goes much deeper—it really gives Primal Scream an actual purpose...