tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22185578834865292452011-04-21T14:35:21.219-07:00Trying not to go crazy at a private, Catholic, university in the midwest.Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01368850413833122893noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2218557883486529245.post-81820361924006685312007-02-19T22:04:00.000-08:002007-02-19T22:16:16.542-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.eptv.co.uk/vector/handgun.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 160px;" src="http://www.eptv.co.uk/vector/handgun.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Michael Moore offers a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeOaTpYl8mE&amp;eurl=">lighthearted solution</a> to solving the serious problem of racism and racial profiling by policemen, and how it affects the African-American community.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2218557883486529245-8182036192400668531?l=slewofinsanity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01368850413833122893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2218557883486529245.post-67476793719889283312007-02-19T21:28:00.000-08:002007-02-19T22:02:43.024-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.aciprensa.com/Banco/images/jesus.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 209px; height: 280px;" src="http://www.aciprensa.com/Banco/images/jesus.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />I am so sick of Hollywood pumping out one white savior movie after another. From <span style="font-style: italic;">To Kill a Mockingbird </span>to <span style="font-style: italic;">Blood Diamond </span>and<span style="font-style: italic;"> Freedom Writers</span>, the tradition of the media portraying blacks and other people of color as always needing a white person to "save them" goes way back. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-queenan14jan14,0,6201872.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail">Here's</a> an article by Joe Queenan that appeared in the LA Times about "<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-queenan14jan14,0,6201872.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail">why movies about Africa require white saviors</a>."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2218557883486529245-6747679371988928331?l=slewofinsanity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01368850413833122893noreply@blogger.com0