Mr. Sheeley's coming out as the New York-New Jersey leader of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan has stirred months of meetings and discussion here about race and intolerance, issues rarely raised publicly in these small towns.
The last thing they wanted was a series about race and intolerance in Los Angeles.
The final scene reminded me so much of Dr. Seuss' "The Butter Battle Book" (1984) and both had a profound impact on me about race and intolerance at a young age.
In the House of Lords, Stephen Cottrell, the bishop of Chelmsford, said a headteacher had told him that her pupils "were frightened when they went to school on Friday" and that she had seen an increase in race hatred and intolerance.
It mixes compassion and passion, tolerance and intolerance, race, sex, sexuality, growing up, growing older, the want for attention, the need for attention, the breadth and depth of the experience of being a kid (if not a person), pretty brilliantly.
Many Americans are invested in the idea of a "post-racial" moment -- a moment marked by our purported movement beyond a historical chapter colored by race-based discrimination, intolerance, inequity, and violence.
