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...wonderful closings in movies, one in particular comes to mind now. A journalist has just given up, for love, the biggest story of his life. He has also surrendered the love of his life, all for the sake of a young woman. A most unlikely situation, a dramatic confectioner's creation. Reality has no place in this fantasy. Until the ending. And until...
...until they were almost completely driven out of business. This eventual failure occured for a number of reasons, but mainly because the political dynamics of World War II Hollywood led to more complex portrayals of African Americans. After all, if Black Americans were meant to be fighting for the sake of the good ol' US of A, then a message of racial unity had to be played up in numerous wartime morale-boosting movies. More diverse images of Blacks proliferated in Hollywood--major studios even made Black cast movies of their own (i.e. MGM's "Cabin...
...cloaked affirmative action programs push "diversity" for its own sake rather than racial fairness. Yale asks all minority applicants to describe "the contribution your personal background would make to the diversity of the student body." Stanford, to its credit, at least restricts the scope of its program to Blacks, native Americans, Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans. But it prompts applicants who belong to these groups not to demonstrate how discrimination has harmed them but instead how "your ethnic/cultural background would be relevant to your law school experience and that of your classmates...
...change for change's sake, but change to preserve America's ideals--life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless...
...will not be easy; it will require sacrifice.But it can be done, and done fairly, not choosingsacrifice for its own sake, but for our own sake.We must provide for our nation the way a familyprovides for its children...