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Just Another Other

Jason Ryberg

Our leaders say we should be good little citizens
and reach out and begin the healing process
and try to form some kind of alliance with

the legendary white working class, which
no one really seems to be able to clearly define,
even though so much ink and air-time are

devoted to it, more and more, every voting
season (before they’re forgotten (again) and until
they’re needed next time to hose off and

trot out and see, once again, which political party
finally wins the multi-million-dollar media
tug-of-war to sway this peculiar demographic

via their needs (or, if need be, their prejudices)
and hopefully bring them into the fold for good).
But I really have to wonder about the notion

of locating this elusive common ground with a
group that seems to proudly, chest-and-bible-
thumpingly define themselves, socially and

politically, by their ignorance of politics,
science and history let alone the larger world that
exists outside their own and might as well

be another planet which is exactly what they’ve been
lead to believe for the last thirty years or so by their church
and community leaders and elected representatives,

all of whom appear to be in the process of collectively
and publicly shitting themselves and melting down
wicked-witch-of-the-West-style at the prospect

that, even out here in the ultimate gated community
of the North-Western hemisphere, they will soon be
just another other in a nation of others.

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