Today it's about what's at the NYAFF tonight, and then I want to rant about the Supreme Court.
It's Friday night, so I'll probably be going down to the New York Asian Film Festival if I can get tickets in time to check out a new movie from Han Jae-Rim starring Song Kang-Ho, the hero of The Host. It's called The Show Must Go On.
Here's a link to everything you need for that Right here including showtimes, tickets, and more of the NYAFF.
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I'm sort of angsty today. Paris HIlton gets an hour on CNN to talk about her bullshit, while in the meantime I assume most people will completely gloss over what the Supreme Court just did. These are my opinions of course, and I'm not speaking for GR here. But the decision the court made yesterday was a landmark decision that we are now stuck with. Any attempt to address the economic, institutionalized racism of attempting to provide minorities and immigrants with access to safer, better schools is now and forever dead in our country.
Justice Stevens in his opinion declared: ... indeed, the history books do not tell stories of white children struggling to attend black schools. In this and other ways, The Chief Justice rewrites the history of one of this Court's most important decisions....
Indeed Brown vs. Board of Education may have been one of the greatest, most just and crucial decisions the Supreme Court ever made. The kind of decision that earned the U.S. a reputation as a paragon of liberty and equality. And it was all completely thrown away yesterday on some twisted logic that feigns ignorance of a history of slavery, and a result of slavery being a disenfranchised lower class that has race as its marker.
Great commentary on that is here.
It's Friday night, so I'll probably be going down to the New York Asian Film Festival if I can get tickets in time to check out a new movie from Han Jae-Rim starring Song Kang-Ho, the hero of The Host. It's called The Show Must Go On.
Here's a link to everything you need for that Right here including showtimes, tickets, and more of the NYAFF.
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I'm sort of angsty today. Paris HIlton gets an hour on CNN to talk about her bullshit, while in the meantime I assume most people will completely gloss over what the Supreme Court just did. These are my opinions of course, and I'm not speaking for GR here. But the decision the court made yesterday was a landmark decision that we are now stuck with. Any attempt to address the economic, institutionalized racism of attempting to provide minorities and immigrants with access to safer, better schools is now and forever dead in our country.
Justice Stevens in his opinion declared: ... indeed, the history books do not tell stories of white children struggling to attend black schools. In this and other ways, The Chief Justice rewrites the history of one of this Court's most important decisions....
Indeed Brown vs. Board of Education may have been one of the greatest, most just and crucial decisions the Supreme Court ever made. The kind of decision that earned the U.S. a reputation as a paragon of liberty and equality. And it was all completely thrown away yesterday on some twisted logic that feigns ignorance of a history of slavery, and a result of slavery being a disenfranchised lower class that has race as its marker.
Great commentary on that is here.
2 Comments:
I SO hear you. I don't want to minimize the atrocity of the war that W got us into, but his skewing of the Supreme Court as it now is probably the biggest crime he has committed as the President. I shudder to think what more are to follow...
Just saw 'Paris je t'aime' definitely enjoyed certain parts more than others but that was always going to be the case.
You going to SDCC this year I still have the link top those pics of you in your 'G.o.D' mode!
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