‘BURDEN’ BOMBSHELL
I’ve just read that the upcoming movie “White Man’s Burden” will depict a hypothetical world where whites are second-class citizens in a black-dominated America (“Turnabout of Foul Play,” by Chris Willman, March 19).
The film’s makers hope that it will help white audiences empathize with what African Americans experience on a day-to-day basis. I hope the filmmakers are right and “White Man’s Burden” will lead to more interracial understanding, but given the current backlash against minority empowerment, I’m not optimistic.
ROBERT PAYNE
Studio City
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It will be dismissed as an overreaction, but the latest John Travolta film may well pose a chilling dilemma for blacks in the real--white-dominated--America.
This revisionist movie could become Newt Gingrich and his camp’s dream come true: the ultimate (Goebbels-type) propaganda tool of our times, for use by the spokesmen of the angry white male.
FREDDIE L. BISHOP
Los Angeles
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