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Jill Tubman — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:46:00 -0000

Hey Carmen -- thanks for the correction. Should have known you'd be on top of it.

As or Jefferson -- unfortunately, I think we have to wait for the system to spit him back out. It will be slow, humiliating and painful. And not just for black people either. Pelosi's got a real PR problem on her hands here. Thanks CC.

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Christopher Chambers — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:55:00 -0000

Is there any way NOT to seat Jefferson? I guess not--they tried it with Adam Clayton Powell and it didn't work.

As for Japanese film, etc. it's like Apocalypto--we live in a culture of ignorance. Accordingly when we see crap on the big screen we say "boy those Maya were barbarians. Maybe it was good the Spanish came and killed them all."

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Carmen Van Kerckhove — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:17:00 -0000

Actually that video is not from Japan, it was created by two American producers as a spoof of their perceptions of Japan's adoption of hip hop culture. It premiered at the 2001 Ohio Film Festival. Check out Wikipedia:

http://tinyurl.com/epon3