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- <text id=93TT1061>
- <title>
- Mar. 01, 1993: Bad Vibrations
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 71
- Bad Vibrations
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE
- </p>
- <p> Intelligent? Not really. Well spoken? Let's just say he makes
- Joey Buttafuoco sound like William F. Buckley. Nevertheless,
- rough-boy rapper-underwear model MARKY MARK proved himself a
- savvy negotiator when he came under fire from gay- and minority-rights
- groups who'd branded him a racist homophobe. Turns out Mr. Mark
- (who recently defended another singer's right to state that
- gays "should be crucified") has been involved in racist attacks
- too, harassing a group of black schoolchildren in 1986 and assaulting
- two Vietnamese men in 1988. To save himself, Marky apologized
- and yielded to the demands of advocacy groups who asked him
- to do antibias public-service ads. Proclaimed the briefed one:
- "Asian-Pacific Americans, African Americans and all people have
- the right to live free of violence and harassment." How enlightened.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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