There is a serious class divide going on in this country right now. You see it in things like the Trayvon Martin case and also in the current Baldwin County situation with Summer Moody.
There is an entire underclass of people who embrace and celebrate their ignorance. You hear it every day on Finebaum when he hypocritically rails against "snobs in their ivory towers." If you have money, if you speak well, if you are educated it is reaching the point that you either have to hide that fact in large public gatherings or you have to stay only with "your kind."
This underclass revels in spitting in your educated face and purposely makes use of mangled grammar, slang speech and vulgarities as a way of identifying where they belong. It's not that they don't know better, they choose it consciously.
This class division transcends race. It's ground warfare fueled by politicians who hurl verbal spears at the evil rich, it's propagated by Hollywood films which portray greedy, immoral rich trampling on the highly principled and downtrodden (lies). Corporations are demons. Business owners are heartless devils taking advantage of Joe Worker.
There's a tremendous resentment brewing. Even on my own staff, most of whom are fairly well educated, there's a surly undercurrent if I take a day off. There's this sense of "well if it warn't for me, that sumbitch wouldn't have no damn nice car and no vacation..." They forget that it's MY risk that created the business and that I'll do just fine without them all. I can hire others to do what they do.
Yesterday I'm at lunch. On one side of me is a table full of grease-stained, name-tag on the shirt bubbas. On the other side a table full of banker/accountant types.
Both tables were talking about the Summer Moody case.
From the Bubbas: "They orta arrest them basturds what wuz up in that damn fishin' camp shootin' people for no fuckin' reason. Rich sumbitches care more bout their damn stuff than they do anything. But fuck naw, they gonna get away with it. Prolly take the fuckin' DA fishin' out yonder in one a their damn high society cabins. Gonna bury them poor damn kids in prison for just fuckin' around and bein' kids, and that girl prolly gonna die. Rich bastards always gets away with shit."
From the Bankers: "Hate what happened to the girl, but you've got to ask yourself what she's doing out with a crew of boys at 4 in the morning breaking into people's cabins. That's a lack of parental responsibility. If anybody needs to be charged it's the parents for failing to supervise their children. Don't know what happened, but if the property owners were in fear for their lives, they had every right to protect themselves."
Race isn't going to be the real war no matter what Charlie Manson said. There's going to be a class war eventually. Too many people think those of us who work hard for what we get are really just Marie Antionette eating cake that their labor created. You can thank President Allah Akbar for part of that.
And for the record? The vast majority of the underclass in this state swears fealty to Bahr. It's literally 20-1.
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