Showing posts with label Post-Racial USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Post-Racial USA. Show all posts

Thursday, December 4, 2014

When, Jon, when will utopia arrive?

December 04, 2014 Aaron Couch , Eric Garner 0 Comments
Jon Stewart On Eric Garner Case: "We're Not Living In A Post-Racial Society"

Aaron Couch, Dec. 3, 2014, Hollywood Reporter

He showed footage of Garner taken just before his death to illustrate that the idea of having police officers wear cameras might not do much good, since we had footage of the incident in this case, and no charges were brought.

"We are definitely not living in a post-racial society. And I bet there are a lot of people out there wondering how much of a society we are living in at all," Stewart said. "I don't know what to say. It just happened, so I have not had a chance to digest it."

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Saturday, November 1, 2014

Spike Lee, the whiny bigoted victicrat who thought W. blew up levees?

November 01, 2014 America with George Ramos , Fusion.net 0 Comments
Spike Lee: Post-Racial USA Is ‘Bullshit’

By America with George Ramos, Oct. 31, 2014, Fusion.net

Spike Lee calls it like he sees it. And he told Fusion’s Jorge Ramos that a post-racial America is “bullshit” and police departments don’t treat all Americans equally. He also took a swipe at the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” TV show, saying it highlights the “destruction of the modern world.”

“There’s a big division for the police departments, I think, in this country, versus people of color,” Lee said.

Lee has been a filmmaking force for over thirty years, and his raw portrayals of urban life and racial issues drove his early success. His 1989 masterpiece “Do the Right Thing’ climaxes with a scene of police brutality, and life imitated art in July when Eric Garner died during a routine arrest in Staten Island after being put in a chokehold by a NYPD officer. It was all captured in a cell phone video by bystander Ramsey Orta.

“When I saw Ramsey’s footage… it was very eerie… I said, ‘This is just like Radio Raheem!’” Lee told Ramos. “I said we’ve got to cut this stuff.” The resultingmashup grew into a documentary about Garner called “I Can’t Breathe.”

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