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Donna Britt
Donna Britt, a PoliticsDaily.com columnist, is an award-winning former Metro columnist for The Washington Post, where she worked for 16 years.... moreJames Cameron's 'Avatar' Is Many Things -- but Not Racist
By Donna Britt
Don't you just love how everybody sees things differently? I wondered after hearing that James Cameron's blockbuster "Avatar" has been rewarded for its creative and technical brilliance with nine Oscar nominations -- after receiving heaping doses of a less-obvious "reward" that also puts butts into movie seats: Controversy. As Oscar hype tempts the handful of heretics who passed on the highest grossing movie ever to repent, let's recap the numerous controversies that show how filmgoers who bought $2 billion in tickets to "Avatar" saw very different things in it. The breathtaking 3-D flick ...
Michael Jackson's Surprising Health Care Lesson
By Donna Britt
Michael Jackson is back in the headlines. The superstar was buried Thursday night in Glendale, Calif., nearly a week after his June 25 death from cardiac arrest was ruled a homicide by the Los Angeles County coroner's office. Observers speculate that Jackson's physician, Conrad Murray, could be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the star's death, caused by the powerful anesthetic propofol and other sedatives. Murray admitted to administering propofol, commonly used to sedate patients before surgery, to help Jackson sleep. ...
District 9 and Racism: A Thoughtful Look Through a Sci-Fi Lens
By Donna Britt
Warning: For the sake of enjoyment, don't let anybody -- even me -- tell you too much about the strikingly original new movie District 9. You've never seen anything quite like it. Then again, maybe you have. Have you met anyone who is compassionate and caring--but who drops that warmth like a scalding-hot coffee cup when something sparks his unthinking prejudice? Has an unexpected event ever forced you to see life through the eyes of someone whose feelings -- whose humanity --- you've barely considered? Have you ever marveled at how quickly those who've been unfairly discriminated against ...
Gates-Crowley Drama: Forget Assumptions, Focus on Lessons
By Donna Britt
"Who do you think you are?" Of all the angry words tossed about in the brouhaha around black Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates' arrest for disorderly conduct on his front porch by a white Cambridge policeman, that question -- the one millions of us ask when confronted by someone who has clearly overstepped his bounds -- seems most apt. Even if neither Gates nor Sgt. James Crowley -- the policeman who'd rushed to Gates' home in response to a report of two men forcing the door -- never asked the question aloud, both men seemed to have been motivated by it. The policeman, regarding the ...
Michael Jackson: My Home Boy; My Mystery
By Donna Britt
So I'm reading on a major news website--after having heard the news from several stunned friends via cell phone--that Michael Jackson has died. Died. Staring at words that can't be true, I'm fixated for the millionth time by the pale, ravaged face in the accompanying photo. As always, the face appears to have no relationship to the little boy who lived a few blocks from me in Gary, Ind. The gifted kid whom my friends and I screamed with delight to see slide across the stage, James Brown-style, in local talent shows that he and his four brothers usually won. ...
A Black Disney Princess: "That's Evolution"
By Donna Britt
To explain the importance of Disney's first black princess in an Obama-fied world, I must go back to the late 1980s and early 90s. I'd split from my first husband, was raising two boys alone, and was worried about role models. ...
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