I remember my parents watching the mini series roots, and I remember bits and pieces of the program. In the 70s and 80s the mini series were the show boats of the networks.
America loves to revel in their history and gave the world, Roots, Winds of War, North and South, How the West Was Won – it was really The Thorn Birds that peaked the genre.
in my 20s, I read the books.
The last part, when Mr Haley describes finding the bill of sale for his own family relatives, I wept.
Unlike with Mister God, This is Anna, I couldn’t leave him alone in that moment and I held the book more tenderly and just wept.
I tend to read multiple books at the same time, I generally have books in different rooms of the house and in my vehicle. Different genres and pacing of books and at the time I read Roots and Queen, my lesbro pal Geoff Barton – who owns Audiopile on Commerical Drive loaned me this book by Jim Goad.
The redneck manifesto and how hill billies hicks white trash became America’s scapegoat.
It was an interesting and compelling explanation of how it really has less to do with one’s skin colour and more to do with the thickness of one’s wallet.
So, this is the information that Mr Goad either was unaware of or is intellectually dishonest about.
Republicans are why the white south is the embarrassment of America on the world stage.
Ronald Regan was the pivotal president who switched the south from voting for the democrats who provided the New Deal infrastructure and job creation to the CEO Puppet Party the Republicans.
The idea that a school of thought on morality makes one qualified to lead over someone educated; without consideration of what that morality actually means in the real world.
The idea that you are magically born into the best group, no matter what kind of a scrapstisant level of living.
That somehow caring about the environment is exclusive over caring about people – or worse. that those who care about the CEOS are at all concerned about the workers.
Companies need to operation on suppliers and demanders. When companies are no longer contained to walking distance or driving distance, but now have a global reach – companies will shift their markets to where there are markets
they are no longer contrained to maintain any market
which is why when the public pays, private profits
companies are no longer corporate citizens, they are multinational
while people are geographically nationalized
Canada’s infrasture of power and energy was built on public money and now operate for private profit.
Companies are refusing government regulations and when their buildings explode or their resource extraction goes sideways – Polly Mine, Fracking….
it’s the taxpayers who are paying over and over – by the loss of the environment, chemical exposures, crisis in life that was avoidable really
so we can blame hill billies for thinking small and selfish
the world is not about any one group of us
it is about all of us together
cause we gotta share it better than we have been
