[Peace] WRC events: "Precious" tonight 3/1 8pm; author Sapphire tomorrow 3/2 7pm

[C. G. Estabrook]

Quite welcome, Kimberlie.  I've been a fan of CP & of Reed for a while.

A further complication in this terrible business is the point made by Walter 
Benn Michaels*, that liberals (like Hollywood filmmakers) are much more 
comfortable dealing with racism than with inequality. --CGE
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*"The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore 
Inequality" by Walter Benn Michaels (2006)



Kimberlie Kranich wrote:
> Thanks for the Counterpunch article, Carl.
> 
> Sapphire and Reed both make points I nodded to.  Good to have his 
> perspective.  I also am thinking of Barbara's Smith's book, "All the 
> Women are White, All the Men are Black, But Some of Us are Brave."  I 
> wonder if Reed had read it?
> 
> I didn't like "Blind Side" for reasons similar to why Reed doesn't like 
> "Precious."    I think his racial analysis has weight, and that he is 
> also unable to speak articulately on the real problem of male sexual 
> violence against women.  He has given no voice to this reality and I 
> would like to hear his voice on this real problem in addition to the 
> voice he articulates so well in terms of black men being falsely accused 
> of raping white women and the oppression that results in this false 
> accusation.
> 
> ~Kimberlie
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> --- On *Mon, 3/1/10, C. G. Estabrook /<galliher at illinois.edu>/* wrote:
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> 
>     From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
>     Subject: Re: [Peace] WRC events: "Precious" tonight 3/1 8pm; author
>     Sapphire tomorrow 3/2 7pm
>     To: "Stuart Levy" <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
>     Cc: peace at anti-war.net
>     Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 11:09 AM
> 
>     See also Ishmael Reed's account of the film on Counterpunch.org.
> 
> 
>     Stuart Levy wrote:
>      > Two Women's Resource Center events, tonight and tomorrow night:
>      >
>      > Mon 3/1  7pm  Illini Union Ballroom
>      >    Showing of the film "Precious".   Free.
>      >
>      >    [If you haven't seen it -- this is a fine film, if grim.
>      >     A good one to watch where you can talk it over with others
>     afterward.
>      >     Roger Ebert reviewed it here, though it's not his most
>     insightful review:
>      >         
>     http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091104/REVIEWS/911059999/1023
>      >    ]
>      >
>      > Tue 3/2  7pm  Illini Union rooms A + B
>      >    Sapphire, the author of the novel Push on which Precious was
>     based,
>      >    will be visiting UIUC and speaking on Tuesday night!
>      >
>      >
>      > More on the Women's Resource Center:
>      >    http://studentaffairs.illinois.edu/diversity/women/index.html
>      >
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