PROPOSED RADIO NEWS LEDE: THE ELECTION OF A BLACK MAN TO THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES HAD SOME OBSERVERS SPEAKING OF A POST RACIAL SOCIETY, BUT OTHERS MORE CRITICALLY REMARKED THAT RACISM CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY FAILING TO ADDRESS IT.
SINCE BARACK OBAMA BECAME PRESIDENT, THE DISCUSSION ON RACE HAS TAKEN CENTER STAGE WITH THE ARREST OF PROF. LOUIS GATES, JR. IN HIS OWN HOUSE, THE CONTROVERSIAL SIGHT OF A SOUTHERN CONGRESSMAN YELLING AT THE PRESIDENT DURING A NATIONAL ADDRESS AND LAST WEEKâS STATEMENT BY FORMER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER THAT:
"I THINK AN OVERWHELMING PORTION OF THE INTENSELY DEMONSTRATED ANIMOSITY TOWARD PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA IS BASED ON THE FACT THAT HE IS A BLACK MAN, THAT HES AFRICAN-AMERICAN,"
YESTERDAY, THE VERA LIST CENTER FOR ART AND POLITICS AT NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY IN MANHATTAN SCREENED, D.W. GRIFFITHâS âTHE BIRTH OF A NATIONâ, A 1915 THREE-HOUR SILENT FILM CREDITED WITH DEFINING AMERICAN RACIAL ATTITUDES AND ITS 2007 HIP-HOP RE-MIX VERSION: âRE-BIRTH OF A NATIONâ BY D.J. SPOOKY.
WBAI FRED NGUYEN ATTENDED THE PANEL DISCUSSION BETWEEN THE SCREENINGS AND HE FILES THIS REPORT:
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