Racial Conflict

Anna Deavere Smith: Fires in the Mirror4

File 4 of 4. Smith’s one-woman show was broadcast on PBS’ American Playhouse in 1993. It’s sadly out of print for home use (libraries can contact Monterey Media), but here’s a copy of the show’s first half from a 15-year-old videotape recorded from TV. It tells the story of racial conflict in a Brooklyn neighborhood that resulted in one dead black boy and one dead Jewish man. Powerful stuff. Deavere is brilliant.

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it’s sad to say, but is there some form of racial conflict or race war heading to america?

i am a conservative libertarian, and i do believe something needs to be done on the matter of illegal immigration. that is my only opinion on the matter, so i’m not going to pretend like i know what should be done.
i don’t want to offend anyone of any political ideology or ethnicity, but it seems like tensions are rising rapidly in the southwest region.
some of my state leaders (mo), pretty much copied and pasted the arizona law and are going to try to pass it soon.
i have not read the immigration reform bill of az., so personally i have no opinion of it as of yet. but this is not really a question about the bill, but do you think something like this may happen with the tension rising like this?

things like this have happened before. like the Plan of San Diego (please research it if you have not heard of it). that was no major conflict though.

i know it is early, but do you think compromise and reason will ensue and these tensions will die down a little bit, or will it get worse from this point on?

when critisizing an opposing ideology, please don’t judge to harshly and don’t attack each other please.

if you have read the immigration reform bill in arizona, what do you think of it?

Even with the hurriedly scribbled changes to the law, don’t be fooled. This measure requires civilian police to ferret out those in the country illegally, setting up a state where proof of citizenship is required at all times for those who look, speak or act as if they have a family tree with roots in Mexico, Central America, South America, Cuba or even Spain.

White Canadians skirting the immigration law have little or nothing to fret. But it still means that if you’re in a car pulled over for having a tail light out, and children or anyone else inside the car cannot prove they are U.S. citizens, the law requires that they be confiscated by police and jailed. Clearly, those police with level heads won’t regularly be dragging Hispanic children out of cars, but there isn’t a scrap of doubt that there will be plenty of police doing just that.

The intent of the law is as clear today as it was when it was first signed. State officials believe they have created legislation allowing civilian police to round up illegal immigrants and scare away others as well as future prospects, and they’re willing to step all over the rights of every Hispanic citizen in the state to do it.

http://www.aurorasentinel.com/articles/2010/05/02/opinion/editorials/doc4bddf831f0e0d054862802.txt

Right after the new law came out a couple of unrelated guys took out ads in Craigslist basically declaring "open season" on raping, robbing and beating illegals — since they will now be too afraid to go to the law for protection.

So you can see if you think about it that the new law can leave openings for huge civil rights violations.

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Ragtime Justice/ President/ Til We Reach That Day

Starring Sean Scott as Coalhouse Walker Jr
Jerlisa Ware as Sarah

Low Budget but completely RICH IN HEART. WCC students tell the story of love, racial conflict, human rights, and following your dreams at any cost

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Racial Conflict help?

On St. Patricks day, I often go to parades with my dad, who is irish, I’m half black and irish. Since I look black everyone at the parades look at me like i’m not supposed to be there.

Well, then they are small-minded people; and you’ll have to forgive them for their ignorance and small minded-ness..I am African-American, and dear, you’re going to have to learn to accept the reality of being a person of color living on this planet. Look at all the struggles African-Americans have gone through and are still going through. There has been a lot of pain and suffering. But always remember this: "Black is Beautiful", and you should be proud of who you are. Be proud to be a child of God, and be proud to be a descendant of some of the most strongest people on the planet–the African slaves. Dont walk around with you head bowed down–and dont apologize for being black & biracial. Those same people who are looking at you like that–will spend tons of money this summer to get your natural bronze skin-color, and will pay a plastic surgoen to get your lips and hips.

Peace and Good Luck.

New Film ‘Machete’ evokes race war

http://www.infowars.com/new-film-machete-to-provoke-race-war/

Director Robert Rodriguez’ new film ‘Machete’ has created controversy after a promotional trailer released online makes provoking comments about Arizona– referring to its new immigration laws– before depicted a machete-wielding vigilante who leads an uprising and massacre against Texas authorities. The filmmakers called it a ‘special’ Cinco de Mayo message to Arizona, inviting viewers into a violent on-screen race war with red-saturated 70s exploitation violence and endless killing.

Alex Jones explains how the unsettling film, currently in production here in Austin, Texas, had upset two of its crew members, both of whom happened to be hispanic, enough to contact him about its fiery message. Though they could not give details due to their contractual agreements, the industry insiders were concerned that the film had gone too far, voicing their fears that it could cause a cultural backlash and do harm to the otherwise positive image of the hispanic community.

Racial strife is often exacerbated unnecessarily by globalists forces who, though seeking to integrate North America regionally, divide & conquer the population by playing upon ethnic tensions. For a violent film to use such a backdrop to glorify and potentially incite violent attacks on white Americans over the immigration issue is very dangerous, and Alex urges the film’s director to carefully consider the impact such an extreme statement could have. Though the movie screen is an escapist dimension where sex & violence are commonplace, ‘Machete’ ties it into a racially motivated issue spurned by anti-illegal immigration rhetoric.

The trailer insinuates that the film’s lead is hired to assassinate a Texas senator rallying so hard against illegal immigrants that he calls their very presence on United States soil “terrorism.” However, ‘Machete’ realizes he’s been betrayed, and instead set-up as a patsy for a failed-assassination attempt to be blamed on what is termed crudely by the film’s villains to be “Mexicans” and “cucarachas.” From there, he develops a taste for revenge and initiates an out-and-out killing spree, recruiting an angry mob along the way, whose leader decries “We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us” in downtown Austin. The trailer shows a crowd all holding up machetes in preparation for battle. As the film is not scheduled for release until September, we cannot say whether the film will be as violent and over-the-top as the trailer implies, but if the wary crew members are any indication, this film could be an unwanted wedge of racial anger that no one wants unleashed.

Curiously, FOX, who is ‘Machete’s’ distributor, blasted the film in a May 6 articled entitled, “Violent movie declares war on Arizona for immigration law.” However, the article was pulled and deep-sixed. The URL pulled up a ‘page not found.’ Talking Points Memo blasts the fact in their article, “Fox News Scrubs Article Criticizing Fox’ Robert Rodriguez Film “Machete” as “Racist” & Declaring “War on Arizona.” Clearly, Rupert Murdoch & co. are playing both sides of a potentially explosive cultural-political issue. FOX won a ‘bidding war’ for the film, which grew out of a parody trailer spliced into the 70s-cult throwback “Grindhouse,” a double-header release featuring works by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, both notable for their excessive and stylistic violence.

It has been established that the Ford Foundation and other top organizations have funded and influence groups like Mecha and La Raza. Border enforcement is lax because big businesses take advantage of the low wage labor; meanwhile, the same NAFTA, WTO and CAFTA visionaries ship jobs overseas and gut the industrial base in America. The clash of cultures is then pressured further by fiery rhetoric, perceived job opportunities, language barriers and political issues. For ‘Machete’ to call for such violence and glorify killings in relation to such a sensitive political topic is potentially criminal if it caused people to act out in real life.

So what of the role of cinema and television cultural products in the larger picture of shaping the opinions and habits of our increasingly naive and shallow population? One need only read between the lines, flip through the channels in a critically-evaluating way (rather than a hyponotic, dreamy way) and read the statements of the ruling elite, who have made sport of pushing our buttons.

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Ethnic and Racial Conflicts

zlonguyenxhttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/zlonguyenxNewsEthnic, and, Racial, Conflicts, Martin, Luther, King, Jr., Darfur, Israel, Palestinian, Political, KKKEthnic and Racial Conflicts

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