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Thanks Rob! “Masi Oka, the breakout star of NBC’s rookie hit “Heroes,” is putting on his poker face for the casino-set thriller “21.” The film is inspired by the true story of a group of men who learned the art of card counting and won millions of dollars
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Thanks Rob! Conservative group the Young America’s Foundation releases this academic year’s “Dirty Dozen” — college courses it found to be “the most bizarre and troubling instances of leftist activism supplanting traditional scholarship.”
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Thanks Rob! “”The persistent, relentless portrayal of Roma as rootless, lawless, immoral, childlike thieves … will ensure that anti-Gypsy prejudice will remain firmly a part of Euro-American attitudes,” says Ian Hancock, a Romani scholar at the Universi
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Thanks Rob! “not only have outreach and retention efforts for Native American students been neglected, but an organization openly mocking and bastardizing Native American culture has long been in place.”
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“The Roman Catholic church where he preached to parishioners on Chicago’s South Side is long gone. And few know the story of the man himself — a slave who became the first acknowledged black Catholic priest in the United States.”
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“The fact is that racism — and anti-black racism in particular — is a pervasive and historically entrenched reality of life in Latin America and the Caribbean…”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Celeste wrote:
First of all I’ll acknowledge that both latinos and blacks (my racial persuasion) have to take responsilibity for negative relationships between the two sometimes in some communities. The concept that I’m having trouble wrapping my mind around is how an immigrant (latinos have no corner on this phenomenon, many are guilty) comes to this country then automatically feels superior to a segment of the native (not native american but you know what I mean) population. I’ve been told that immigrant communities sometimes need a benchmark to judge their progress in a new country and for some reason (historic racism against blacks) like to choose black people. That’s really not cool, though. Choose someone else for once, just to mix it up a bit.
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Jay wrote:
I believe when Ben Mezrich was in talks about doing the “21″ movie, he mentioned that there was no way they’d get an Asian for the movie (”maybe an Asian female” was I think what was talked about).
This is still a far cry from reality (most of the MIT team in “Bringing Down the House” were Asian guys – this is actually relevant because they used the model minority myth to fool the casinos into letting them play) and I have no confidence that they’ll use Masi Oka correctly even if they had him. But we’ll see.
(Also, the article is wrong, their main method of tracking the cards was not card-counting.)
Here is the article: http://www-tech.mit.edu/V125/N43/43vegas.html
Posted 08 Jan 2007 at 1:00 pm ¶