Michael Richard's frenzied meltdown onstage at the Laugh Factory.
Black firefighter Tennie Pierce's charges of endemic racism in the Los Angeles Fire Department.
NYPD unloading 50 rounds into three unarmed black men.
Ten black teens and preteens on trial for hate crimes in Long Beach, Calif., after a savage attack on three white women.
We might just be closing in on Christmas, but I'd say: Get ready for a long, hot 2007 if the current climate prevails.
Race relations in America have taken center stage, and once again the fault lines have been highlighted as a predominantly black-and-white affair.
That old paradigm might provide a comfortably familiar dynamic for activists, elected officials and the media to play off, but it conceals the new reality -- and the danger -- of the deepening racial polarization on America's streets.
And some of the most stridently racial rhetoric these days is not being heard from blacks or whites but rather from Latinos.
2006-12-17
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