Movie and TV Reviews.
Fresh off of the Academy Awards, I thought I would go in the opposite direction for a little bit and review one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time, the 1986 George Lucas travesty Howard the Duck.
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My affinity for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit goes back a long way. In elementary school I purchased a copy of White Fang from one of those Scholastic book order flyers that got sent home once a month, and thought it was the best book I had ever read. It was a gripping tale of adventure set […]
All too often it seems Hollywood has a penchant for releasing a ‘Huh? They’re really making that??’ movie. In fact, my response to the news of a prequel to Planet of the Apes was just that. I didn’t see the need to revisit a franchise that had laid dormant for a decade. Of all the […]
Unless and until the races are willing to sacrifice everything that makes them who they are – not entirely desirable – racial consciousness and, therefore, “racism” will probably never just disappear. That’s no reason cross-racial friendships can’t occur (as they often do). But they’re not going to occur through racial reconciliation conferences or lots of kumbaya singing, and certainly not through the races taking each other out in disguise and then yelling at each other when the other race doesn’t see things the same way. They will occur, if at all, the same way all friendships occur: through people simply being themselves and finding things they have in common. Programs like Black White, even when they have the best of intentions, need to back off and let this happen. It can’t be forced.
