Word: racialization
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...have an abortion. Students of history should remember that although Brown v. Board of Education outlawed “separate but equal,” it was the democratically passed Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that really gave the cause for racial equality legitimacy and impact...
...road strategies won George Bush the governor?s mansion and the White House, that Rove is a dominant force in the President?s policies (Moore has called Bush ?Karl Rove?s finger puppet?) and that he?s been behind some of the Bush team?s sleazier escapades, like the racial slurs against John McCain in the 2000 South Carolina primary and the outing of a cia operative married to former Ambassador Joseph Wilson. Well, maybe. The witnesses offer less evidence than suspicions, leaving Bushophobes to connect the dots from a very suggestive pattern...
...view of their quarry. Vang says he was approached by Terry Willers, a co-owner of the property, who asked him to leave and then radioed friends in a cabin nearby. Vang says that as he was leaving the area, the others arrived, surrounded him and taunted him with racial insults. When he finally was able to walk about 100 ft. away, he says, Willers, the only one of the group Vang saw with a rifle, fired a shot, which hit the dirt 10 ft. behind him. That, Vang says, is when he opened fire...
Even if someone took a shot at Vang, his reaction was wildly out of proportion, and Hmong in Minnesota and Wisconsin are concerned that the racial animosity stirred up will undo years of hard work. At a press conference in St. Paul last week, community leaders tried to distance themselves from Vang and announced that they were starting a fund for the victims' families. Fearing a backlash, Joe Bee Xiong, director of the Eau Claire Area Hmong Mutual Assistance Association, has suggested that Hmong hunters stay home for the rest of the season...
Paul Rusesabagina (DonCheadle) is a smooth and accommodating guy. Neat and trim in his habitual jacket and tie, he's a black man managing a luxury hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, a decade ago, making friends and doing favors across racial and national boundaries. He knows when an obsequious word or a proffered bottle of single-malt Scotch will do him the most good with corrupt local officialdom. And he is doing his best to ignore the rising tensions between his country's ruling Hutu tribe (of which he is a member) and the rebellious Tutsi...