Thursday, February 09, 2006

Upon reading the snippet for an award-winning South African movie in today's Daily News (see it here), without passing judgement, I wonder:

Why is it easier to enter a movie theater ran than a neighborhood to witness the ‘ghetto life’? It’s this sort of detachment that prevents us from unifying as a people. The Civil Rights impacted the country precisely because it forced different communities to enter each others’ spaces and interact. We are regressing more and more each day as we keep figuring out effective and sneakier ways to exclude those who are different in class or race.

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