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or if you fall on the wrong side of the brutal class divisions which are increasingly characteristic of the realilty of american social life--and particularly of its systems of social reproduction. for example. and the horatio alger response does not fly: class divisions in the states are basic structural features of how the american system works. conservatives tend to see them as evidence of some kind of moral divide--in which they are simply delusional--but it does have an appeal: it is always easier of you can blame the victims of a brutal system for the problems that system creates. that way you can pretend the system itself is perfect and explain away the divisions. that and it does not require a whole lot of thought.
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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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