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'Show Me a Hero': Where's the N-Word?
David Simon’s HBO mini-series shows how disparate impact can be just as destructive as explicit racism.
Something we hear a lot of on Show Me a Hero: the Boss. It seems like a Bruce Springsteen song plays any time the mayor of Yonkers walks into a room.
Something we have not heard, more than halfway through the series: racial epithets. For a show about the bitter race battle that exploded in Yonkers in the late 1980s, the angry white protesters—and even angrier white council members—aren’t lashing out with the vile language you might expect.