[Peace-discuss] peace-discuss please! Re: [Peace] WRC events: "Precious" tonight 3/1 8pm; author Sapphire tomorrow 3/2 7pm

[Stuart Levy]

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On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 12:04:36PM -0600, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 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
> ______________
> *"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
>> --- On *Mon, 3/1/10, C. G. Estabrook /<galliher at illinois.edu>/* wrote:
>>     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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