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...Right Thing had critics predicting that the film would foment wildings by blacks against whites. Racial violence did erupt in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst neighborhood that summer, but the victim was a black man, Yusuf Hawkins, whose murder inspired Jungle Fever. "He was killed for supposedly coming to visit ((a young Italian-American woman))," Lee notes, "when all he wanted to do was look at a used car. But sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white Southern...
...British-born pop star, who now calls himself Yusuf Islam, has been allowed to set up a "peace camp" for British Muslims behind the Iraqi lines and has appeared on Iraqi television...
Like the brutal rape of the Central Park jogger and the murder of Yusuf Hawkins in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn last year, Watkins' death quickly assumed a larger symbolic meaning. Outside the city it confirmed what most Americans already believed: New York is an exciting but dangerous place. Among New Yorkers it reinforced the spreading conviction that the city has spun out of control. A growing sense of vulnerability has been deepened by the belief that deadly violence, once mostly confined to crime-ridden ghetto neighborhoods that the police wrote off as free-fire zones, is now lashing...
...seem to some Westerners, the prospect of Saddam's emerging as a populist idol is not farfetched. In a region rife with dissolute and spendthrift rulers, he is admired for his austere and disciplined habits. "He has no palaces, no Swiss bank accounts," says Major General Yusuf Kawash, a retired member of the Jordanian army. Saddam has positioned himself as an avenging Robin Hood, intent upon stealing the wealth of the affluent but uncaring gulf states and redistributing it to the impoverished Arab masses. Jordan's Hussein reinforced that reasoning early last week, when he said that the crisis...
When Shelby Steele heard about the racially motivated murder of 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn last August, his first reaction was fear -- the same fear he used to feel as a young black boy growing up in Chicago in the 1950s. There was, he recalled, "a sense that an ugly element of our history had somehow crawled forward into the present and made our belief in racial progress feel like an illusion." But Hawkins' death also evoked in Steele an overwhelming sense of what he calls "racial fatigue," that inescapable burden of color that...