Oakland highlights/steel dumping

Tom Lehman uswa12 at lorainccc.edu
Fri Jan 8 11:54:53 PST 1999


Dear Doug,

Clinton is an actor. Clinton has actor problems. Clinton's problems read like a Hollywood tabloid. Who writes Clinton's lines? Who directs Clintons actions?

Your email pal,

Tom L.

Doug Henwood wrote:


> Chuck Grimes wrote:
>
> >See, I would have gone for that class analysis, but there is something
> >else going on between Clinton and especially the southern and western
> >House and Senate. I mean what makes white trash, trash and not just
> >poor? What makes the idea of funky sex so odious to these genteel
> >christians? Why do these same House/Senate members seem so mysteriously
> >united on every single piece of thought or deed, that has the
> >slightest hint of race--abortion, teen pregnancy, drugs, crime,
> >education. For example why do everyone of these guys hate the UN? That
> >isn't about class or 'foreign involvements.'
> >
> >No, this isn't just a class act. There is some deep serious and
> >specfically American thing going on down there. Something pecularly
> >American is at work, and the only thing I can think of, that is
> >remotely like it, is racism.
>
> Oh I think you've got a point here, but 1) folks just out of white trash
> status want to police the borders of trash-hood very carefully, and 2) the
> whole notion of white trash is closely associated with racism, since white
> trash people are seen as a discredit to their race, acting more "black"
> than "white." If Bill were safely white, he would be able to control his
> appetites, you know.
>
> Doug



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