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...gotten where we are through a very deliberate and intentional process," Lewis said. "There seems to be lots of unfounded fears out there that these administrative moves are somehow designed to scale back our commitments to public service programs. It's absolutely not a plot to scale back anything...
...hatred and jealousy towards the father are subsumed by Wallace's interactions with other women--turns out to be a cliched expression of childhood trauma. Granted, the play is a comic treatment of serious themes, but the fact that all of Wallace's relationships and potential flings are somehow tainted with his mother's blood is too convenient and unconvincing...
...hard-core rap, is consistent with a body of literature in social theory (See the work of Professor Cornel West '74). I contend that Star's myopic perspective prevents him from realizing that all groups in American society exhibit nihilistic tendencies. To single out the African-American condition as somehow different and irrational ignores volumes of comparable data on mainstream society...
Perhaps African-Americans are skeptical of Powell because he packages himself as a black man somehow different from the masses of African-Americans with statements like: "I'm now a wealthy person.... I wasn't wealthy when I retired. I mean, I just figured out what the white guys were doing." (Henry Louis Gates, The New Yorker, Sept. 25, 1995). Or statements like: "He ticks off African, English, Irish, and probable Arawak Indian ancestry [when asked to describe his own city...
...VERDICT HAS COME DOWN, AND A man I think is a murderer has been found not guilty. The lawyers representing him were able to switch the focus of the trial away from the deaths of the two victims and somehow turn it toward the disparity between whites and blacks in the U.S. But O.J. Simpson is not by any stretch of the imagination a representative of the African-American people. He did nothing for them when he was at the peak of his career or at any time afterward. There used to be a very effective remedy for those...