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There's "Miracle at St. Anna," but that's Spike Lee, and also unfortunately it wasn't very good.

Not at all relevant to the topic at hand, but the mention of a "First Wives Club" sequel reminded me of one of my favorite personal stories from Tumblr: http://ofgeography.tumblr.c…

"I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him.”

And the only progress that we've made was made because people made a stink about it.

On a semi-related note: why is all the literature we get presented to us from the Anglophone world? "Harry Potter" is translated and read from Sweden to Indonesia, so why doesn't the reverse happen?

I want to launch "New Girl" into the sun for being soullessly unfunny (even Chuck Lorre productions are more engaging and fun to watch than that abortion of a show), but I do appreciate that there are (or were, at one point) two black guys in the cast, which prevents either of their personalities and roles in the show

All I know is that my circle of friends / acquaintances / schoolmates has always included the occasional person of color: a couple Asians here, a couple black people there, a Native American, the occasional Latino - and I'm from

That makes more sense. I'd always assumed that Ernie Hudson was someone who was famous in the 80's who could be plopped into a film with no introduction and people would just accept the character because they knew the actor (like they could easily do with Christ Hemsworth here if they wanted to), but obviously that

"She kept referring to the Indians as 'niggers'. 'No no no,' I said, 'the niggers are the West Indians. These people are wogs!'"

I always felt his character was a bit awkwardly shoehorned in without really developing his character enough. I mean, within the film, his character *is* kind of a fourth wheel (it's a trike in this metaphor, OK?) and the odd man out, but the way he was relegated to the back seat within the film kind of felt funny.

That's what makes Jone's role here a bit racist.

It occurred to me that it would probably make more sense for Leslie Jones to play the equivalent of Bill Murray's role as the wisecracking joker and Melissa McCarthy to play the role Jones plays here as the streetwise addition to the team.

As long as she's an actual character and more than *just* a one-note stereotype and a joke, it's a plus for black representation … buuuut it could definitely be a whole lot better.

Considering how ubiquitous the sexual objectification of females both fictional and real is, I think a single instance of male sexual objectification counts as an act *against* sexism if anything.

I learned about her in an article in "Cricket."

Bernie's approach to black issues has always and continues to be flawed - mainly, he addresses anti-black racism generally, but not specifically or directly enough, and he's glosses over it in favor of addressing economic inequality.

Young Chelsea looked like a girl who played the flute in middle school band.

I remember when Michelle Bachmann used "American Girl" in her 2012 presidential campaign until Tom Petty told her to stop using it.

That logo looks like the title logo for the latest family comedy starring a popular comedian coming to theaters this Thanksgiving.

"Interestingly, Trump and Clinton are the two with the highest "unfavorable" ratings and are also the leaders…"