Mary Kathrine Ham: "An Iran-born recent grad of the University of North Carolina drives a rented SUV into a crowd of students in a popular campus gathering place, hitting nine and injuring six.
He calls 911 (audio of call, here) and tells the dispatcher why he did it: 'Really, it's to punish the United States government for its actions around the world.'
On his way to his hearing, he is asked by a reporter if he was trying to kill people. He answers very calmly, 'yes.'
In his hearing, he declares that he will represent himself with the help of Allah and that he is thankful for the opportunity to 'spread the will of Allah.'"
I'm glad this didn't displace the coverage of the Academy Awards because I was thrilled to see so many courageous films rejecting intolerance by Republicans (Good Night, Good Luck), Red States (Brokeback Mountain), and white people (Crash).
Who says Hollywood is out of touch? Except of course, George Clooney.
2 comments:
michelle,
I agree that there was a plethora of racism in Crash, and much of it was by characters who were not white (which is unusual in American Film).
However, you must agree, that the most odious of racists depicted in the film, was Matt Dillon's character.
I do not agree that Matt Dillon's character was the most odious of racists. In fact, I think his crime had far less to do with race and more to do with gender. Culturally speaking, women put up with all sorts of...crap...from men and deep down we know we "have to." Matt Dillon's character did not molest the husband -- only the wife -- even though they were both the same race.
Then again, what if Matt Dillon's character was the most odious of racists? In all my years in church -- I'm a whitey and go to whitey churches -- I have yet to hear one sermon on racism. I don't think we're doing too well on this issue. Maybe we are the worst offenders???
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