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Perhaps police are more likely to search minorities because they commit a disproportionate number of crimes. William Tucker makes this point in an article in the conservative Weekly Standard. According to the latest federal figures, blacks are 12% of the U.S. population but account for 27% of all sexual-assault convictions, 66% of all robbery convictions and 38% of all fraud and embezzlement convictions. Yet it seems unlikely that a traffic officer who searches a black motorist on the shoulder of a highway believes he is stopping a robbery, rape or embezzlement...
...player. Nothing against Fonda, who still has the most wickedly flirtatious mouth of any Hollywood actress. But Chinese action stars have succeeded with the American public only when their co-stars are African-American. Jackie Chan had his one big U.S. hit, Rush Hour, with the black comic Chris Tucker; the love interest in Romeo Must Die was the hip-hop thrust Aaliyah...
Sleater-Kinney, composed of Tucker, 28, guitarist-singer Carrie Brownstein, 26, and drummer-singer Janet Weiss, 35, is a punk band because, among other reasons, a sense of exclusion and marginalization is part of what drives its music. That sense is a source of the vehemence in the trio's sound, which--on albums released on the small Pacific Northwest labels Chainsaw and Kill Rock Stars--has become at once bigger and more agile, harsher and more unpredictable, since the band formed in 1994 in Olympia, Wash. The world is organized so as not to have to listen to songs...
...Tucker has an almost unnaturally huge voice, but when momentum builds inside a Sleater-Kinney rhythm and then arrives like a flash flood, the sound makes Tucker's seem the only appropriate voice to speak of what's at stake: in Youth Decay, love and hate, life and death...
...what the band was created to pursue: "2001 will be a space odyssey for us, and we won't...be here," Brownstein said from the stage at Sleater-Kinney's most recent show, last November in San Francisco. In the midst of their brief hiatus, Brownstein, Tucker and Weiss remain off the radio but on the mind of the pop world, and plotting their return...