"Multiculturalism" is a popular culture term used by certain people of color and white people.
Culture
Two very distinct types of culture exist, and both are active forces in our society today.
Try to imagine civil rights marches without the spirituals or South African freedom without toi-toi.
1984 is three years past, and the Brave New World is just 20 minutes into the future. That's where the computer-run and video-tranced world of ABC-TV's "Max Headroom" is located.
Traditional temptations of money, sex, and power, the media ministers-turned-media moguls have displayed behavior that is at the same time just plain tasteless.
Let's be honest right up front. Many of us at Sojourners are movie buffs. And basketball fans.
At about the time this magazine reaches most subscribers, ABC's 12-hour miniseries "Amerika" will be fouling the airwaves.
It was an unusual sight--40 people walking through our neighborhood, from house to house, carrying forks.
Nineteen-year-old Rodrigo Rojas de Negri was beaten and burned to death by Chilean security police for participating in an anti-government demonstration in July 1986. Veronica Rojas de Negri is his mother.
Came an offer, cutting a four months slice
out of my whole grain life
Would I voyage to the Colombian jungle, the Argentine waters,
to advise and consent (to differ, raise mild hell)
in uneasy consonance--
to assemble a scattered myth
the bare bones of the heroic dead?
Who could tell if their spirit escaped
split skulls, rent bodies, tempest and travail
to haunt our history, advise, consent, raise holy hell
in the misspent, misshapen world,
edgy, sputtering, intent on dealing
the knockout blow
For Sara
The chain jangles like wind chimes
in the emptiness
as my key springs the padlock open.
Ten more steps
with the tense stillness
that has waited all day in these hallways
following me down the stairs.