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Tuesday, September 24, 2002

Prejudice

While taking in The Hurricane DVD tonight, I was struck by the image of the black man beating on the white man in the ring.

I'd never really thought about it before, but what an explosive concept for the time of this story -- the 1960s.

Race riots in the South as a result of blatant racial discrimination. Separate water fountains, Rosa Parks on the bus, lynchings, church bombings... all those things I read about in history class.

So back to the movie and the boxing. Its the 1960s and you're black and you can't even walk into a sandwich shop and eat with white men, but in the ring you can beat the crap out of one.

Wow.