"You'll never hear a peep about any of these courageous black people, unless you obsessively research every "race" case of the last 30 years, as I did for my book Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama.
"You'll never hear a peep about any of these courageous black people, unless you obsessively research every "race" case of the last 30 years, as I did for my book Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the 70s to Obama.
"I've looked at dozens of race-discrimination cases, and the concept of moving goal posts is a recurring theme in every single case," said Cyrus Mehri, a Washington lawyer who has helped settle sizable discrimination cases against companies like Texaco and Coca-Cola.
This should never be a case of race; it is a case of sensitively retelling one story from a disaster.
Or what if, in an effort to counteract the effects jury biases can create, the race-sensitive seek to censor all mentions of race in court cases?
Today's decision sustained that general ruling, but expressed an interest in delving further into the question of the effect of race in such cases.
This model provides an alternative to the dominant colorblind prosecutorial canon of race reutrality in cases of racially motivated violence.
A lot has been made of race in this case.
Still, some of the president's detractors responded with skepticism about his motives or even anger at what they saw as a divisive injection of race into the case of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin, and what some saw as a sly call for gun control and easing up on crime.
Soon Davis was a recording star ("Hey There"), a Broadway star ("Mr. Wonderful"), a movie star (a dapper, slithering Sportin' Life in "Porgy and Bess") and a Rat Pack insider with Frank and Dean, enduring a relentless stream of race jokes in case anyone didn't notice his complexion, and containing his impulses so as not to upstage the alternately munificent and petulant Sinatra.
