Word: southernization
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...would later recognize the voice as that of the Southern Avenger. He was arguing that if one race owed reparations to another, considering crime rates, it was blacks to whites. “Just like slavery, the blood and sacrifice, or to be more specific—the countless assaults, rapes and murders—can never be repaid in dollar amounts. But aren’t white folks owed some kind of justice?” The skill with which he twisted words around was frightening. I couldn’t believe what he was saying and couldn?...
...only thing more alarming than his articulacy (and he is articulate) is the spandex confederate mask he wears laced like a shoe up the back of his head. I saw it as soon as I logged onto his website. Strung along the top, there are photos: Southern Avenger riveting blonds while groping their thighs; Southern Avenger standing out the window of his General Lee thrusting a thumbs-up; and Southern Avenger pointing at me as if he were Uncle Avenger instead...
...mask makes pragmatic sense. People send him death threats. They key the car he rides in. And while public appearances aren’t necessary for a radio personality, they’re necessary for the Southern Avenger; they move him beyond radio and into the realm of mascot. In hiding his identity, the mask creates a new one. The spandex not only makes the Southern Avenger look like Spider-Man: it gives him some superhero invincibility...
...Mexico's Calderon, a Harvard-educated technocrat, will have to bend his own free-market ideology to keep a bitterly divided Mexico from erupting after he takes office. Special federal police forces have already been called in to quell deadly riots in the poor southern state of Oaxaca. In its broader context, the violence reflects a national backlash against the utter failure of globalization and a fledgling democracy to address Mexico's gross economic inequality. And that powder keg is nudging Calderon to acknowledge that the sort of social investment and regulatory reform programs for which he once ridiculed Lopez...
...take you out." In one district, he adds, his brothers-in-arms have vowed to murder 10 Buddhists for every Muslim death. Such tactics unsettle some veteran insurgents. "We didn't kill monks or innocent civilians," insists a retired P.U.L.O. operative in the southern province of Narathiwat who asked not to be named. "If a man in my unit was caught violating these rules, I would have no choice but to execute him." The new militants are "just killing for killing's sake," he says. "These youths are different from us," agrees an active B.R.N. commander in Narathiwat. "They...