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Last year you compared George W. Bush with Bull Connor, the civil rights-era police chief whose name is synonymous with racism. Do you regret that? I have not chosen my words as carefully as I would want. It was my hope that, as Connor's act awakened Americans to racist policies that existed in the South, [after] the apparent lack of concern with Katrina, Americans would look at the question of poverty. I have been terribly disappointed...
Four blacks will chair committees in the new Congress, Massachusetts has its first African-American Governor, and Obama is a possible '08 candidate. Is this a new era for African Americans in politics? There have been gradual increases in opportunity. Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell are examples as to the progress that has been made politically. But in terms of economic advancements, it has been far slower than the political advancements. It's hard to say it's a new era...
...Discussed his new Christmas comedy Deck the Halls B) Described himself and wife Rhea Perlman getting frisky in the Lincoln Bedroom during the Clinton era C) Did an impression of President Bush as one of the Three Stooges D) All of the above, but not much of A. And it looked like his fly was down...
Layered on this was the sense of a conservative swarm sweeping the country. War supporters and "values voters" were coming out of the woodwork in elections, lining up for The Passion of the Christ and making Fox the sole TV-news success story of the era. They were collecting scalps--Bill Maher, Peter Arnett, Dan Rather--and taking names. They had blogs and remotes and money, and they hated the press. Journalists might not slant stories to show their loyalty, but what was the harm in hanging a little bunting on the screen...
Jump to Hollywood's blaxploitation era in the 1960s, when blacks suddenly were allowed to make movies told from our point of view. Melvin Van Peebles' 1971 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song--an ode to a wronged black man on the run from the cops--introduced the lead character as a "baadasssss nigger coming back to collect some dues!" And that "nigger" in the film, as Van Peebles tells it, snapped the streak of "liberal, sort of nice movies where we always ended up dead...