Hilaire Belloc satirically advocates dire punishment for childish misbehavior except when it comes to guns. The NRA would approve.
Tag Archives: Trayvon Martin
Open Season on Young Black Men
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“Everybody Wants a Black Man’s Life”
Toni Morrison’s “Song of Solomon” offers a vision of hope for targeted black teens.
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Vague Identity Adjectives Killed Trayvon
Novelist Susan Bender says that a literary understanding would have prevented the Trayvon Martin killing.
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Trayvon Was an Invisible Man
The racial profiling at the heart of the Trayvon Martin killing is captured nowhere better than in Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.”
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Vigilante Films Responsible for Trayvon?
Trayvon Martin’s death has Americans rethinking the vigilante film.
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Could Beowulf Have Saved Jews?
In her book about Eichmann, Hannah Arendt praises the Danes for how they stood up to the Nazis. One can draw a parallel with how Beowulf stands up to Grendel and also apply the lesson to the Trayvon Martin case.
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Trayvon Martin, Another Emmett Till
The killing of Trayvon Martin reminds me of Emmett Till and a poem written about Emmett’s youthful innocence.
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