Hi there,
You must have read hundreds of these, but here we go again. I have just read your article, "Poor, White and Pissed". It's the best fucking piece of good literature, accessible to just about any dimwit, I have read that encapsulates just about every thought I have harbored about America since I moved here in '95 from Sierra Leone, West Africa. One of my college professors forwarded it to me. And the last part, about the revolution, well here is what I have always said, it's partly informed by Bob Marley's "Revelation". I am sure you have it, if you don't go pick it up, please.
Anyway, here is what I have thought; it's so messed up right now, no amount of patch work is going to fix it, nothing. Not 12 years of democratic rule, if they can, not a fix in any of the system, nothing, shit, nothing. It's too messed up to be fixed. We need to start from the top to the bottom, start it all over again. Here is partly why I think so; it's the only way we can get the attention of everyone, from the cashier at Wal-Mart to the lower and bottom, whatever that means, working class. With a revolution, people will go, fuck? What's happening? Then we will explain, then we can begin to fix it.
Too many people are too busy trying to patch their lives and feel as though giving it all up, to make it good, once and for all, is too much to give. Sorry, I have to go now, should have read this article some other time. But here is an idea, by way of spreading the word. I am now in the UK studying, and while I was reading thought about a paper here that just may published your piece; The Guardian. They are as left as they come around here, well maybe that's too much credit. But anyway, they just may publish it, because you know why, for a while, having read in their commentaries, they have been trying to figure out, why the fuck Americans will put Bush in office again -- thus far, they have it down to religious right taking a grip on America. Of course there is more to than that, and your pice will go a way in helping them understand -- I think.
Take care,
Michael
