Angela --- rcollins at netlink.com.au -----Original Message----- From: Jennifer A Young <CLEANBYRD at prodigy.net> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Monday, 26 April 1999 6:13 Subject: White Trash & "Gummo"
>Has anyone seen the movie "Gummo". It is one of the most disturbing pieces
>of cinema I have witnessed lately. I rented it. In Xenia Ohio, teens who
>some might describe as "white trash" wander around town generally being
>degenerate and violent. The cat harvesting was more that I could bear, and
>the glue sniffing was pitiful. It seemed like these teens were suffering
>from fatal boredom, ignorance, and feelings of hopelessness. The eerie
>thing about the movie is I have known people with this mentality. For
>instance, neighbors of mine, who my brother and I called "the animals",
>mutilated a doberman pup and killed it. They decided to take the tail
>lopping in to their own hands instead of a vets. The father took a butcher
>knife, which was not sterile or sharp enough and sawed the tail into a mess.
>These folks made my brother and I uncomfortable, because the teens, as well
>as the dad were in a perpetual grapple /boxing match. I'm no sociologist,
>pyschologist, or anthropologist, but these folks are a part of American
>Culture and deserve study beyond the "Roadkill Cookbook". People in
>Indiana, where I am from, have a long standing joke which attributed
>Indiana's "rednecks" to the migration of folks from Kentucky to here.
>People are a trip! Kelly's comments just reminded me of this.
>
>
>-----Original Message----
>From: digloria at mindspring.com <digloria at mindspring.com>
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Date: Sunday, April 25, 1999 12:49 PM
>Subject: Re: suicide note
>
>>as for /dave/'s comments: we've had this conversation among some of at LBO
>>who subscribe to another list. when i taught at very elite liberal arts
>>colleges i discovered that thee is a tremendous hostitility to 'white
>>trash' they were even quite capable, like that web site demonstrated, of
>>providing a very similar analysis of what white trash folks wore, how they
>>behaved, what kinds of cars they drove. even the food! as i recall
>>indications of fundamental white trashness: ramen noodles, kool-aid,
>>yoohoo, tang, little debbie snacks, any kind of casserole, slim jims,
>>pickled pigs feet and the like, hostess snacks.
>>
>>there is an incredible hostitlity to white trash and you'd be surprised at
>>who is actually considered so. oh and there is, as the website noted, a
>>distinction between hicks and white trash. hicks have ambition, they try
>>to be middle class. white trash are lazy, shifty, irresponsible, dumb,
>>oversexed, poor planners who live for today, and dirty.
>>
>>probably not too far from the image some on this list have of yer average
>>gun toting yahoo ey?
>>
>>kelley
>>
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