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Look at the old president and the new; look at their white skin. Look at the 15 members of the new cabinet. They are no different. Look at the protestors: the miners, the coca growers, the poor and hungry. See their faces: dark and wrinkled. They have different brows, different cheeks. They are the color of the earth in Bolivia...
There are simple truths at work in Bolivia, and though there are exceptions (there are always exceptions), in acknowledging those truths we come to understand why they’re painful. The white people in Bolivia are rich. They are not all white like we think of white. Their skin is not palely freckled like an Irishman or ruddy red like a Norwegian. They are people the color of beach sand, descended from the Spanish who came 500 years ago and engorged themselves and their empire on Potosí’s silver. They hold the money...
...seems wrong to think of these people and these issues, these complicating levels of class struggle and economics, in just racial terms. And it is wrong, in the sense that these people are not wholly defined and owned by the color of their skin. But it’s right to acknowledge the realities of many Latin American societies, because the racism and nationalism and class elitism are so interwoven parts of the same oppressive tapestry...
Bruce Springsteen rubbed some men in blue raw at his tour-closing concerts at New York City's Shea Stadium. It was when he performed American Skin (41 Shots), his song about the 1999 killing of West African immigrant Amadou Diallo by four police officers. The N.Y.P.D. yanked his escort for the next few nights, claiming it had been, after all, only a courtesy. Springsteen didn't sing Skin in his next two outings, and--presto!--his police detail was restored. Did the champion of the workingman back down? Maybe he just appreciated anew the lyrics of his song Thunder...
...Texas cop with sunbaked skin grimly appraises the wedding-chapel murder scene. Nine, 10 bodies--an entire bridal party, including the white-gowned bride--are splayed on the floor amid hundreds of spent shells. The cop detects the fatal precision of professionals in this atrocious tableau: lives dispatched cleanly, corpses draped just so. "If you was a moron," he drawls, "you could almost admire...