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you want an idea of how american aid really works when it comes to food? watch the film "life and debt" and then we can talk about it.
people around the world who do not like the states tend to do so on the basis of specific kinds of policies enacted by the government--this usually does not extend to individuals. unless you manage somehow to bring it on yourself, which is always possible, i guess. it requires a certain virtuouso skill, but i suspect some folk have it.
the notion of american matrydom seems to me tedious and wrong-headed.
but randy newman said it better than i possibly could, in his song "political science" on the album "sail away"
the lyrics start:
no-one likes us
i dont know why
we may not be perfect
though heaven knows we try
but all around even our old friends put us down
so let's drop the big one and see what happens...
check out the rest of the song--its hilarious.
it came out in 1972, but it still seems appropriate.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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