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Chapter 49
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So we cripple the underclass, exclude it, stereotype it, degrade it - all to
avoid the hurt of confronting our own Cain-creation and the rips it causes in
the delicate fabric of our middleclass power and security. |
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Even though the barriers of discrimination we erect in our fear against the
threat of our victims can only be maintained because the poor lack the power to
threaten anyone at all, except each other, the underclass still makes us
uncomfortable and anxious. |
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And so we prefer to look down on the homeless from above, paying
off our conscience with a coin. So crippled have we become by this system that we are unable to
sit down with him and listen to how we once had use for him to build up our
western affluence, and sent him overseas to fight for what we call freedom. |
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Dare we look him in the eye while he explains about what he
lost in this struggle for our freedom - the freedom he never experienced - the
freedom to make colored people overseas as dependent as himself- the freedom to
give us the intoxication of power and self-satisfaction at our foreign aid or
federal poverty programs - the paternalistic freedom he will suffer from the
rest of his life - the freedom with which we daily bombard all poor people on
Earth without letting them taste its goods - the freedom to forget our fellow
man while tyrannizing him: |
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You can get it if you really want! |
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But you must try, try and try. |
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You'll succeed at last. |
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Persecution you must bear,
win or loose you got to get your share |
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but your mind set on a dream
the harder it seems now. |
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You can get it if you really want. |
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Rome wasn't built in a day,
opposition will come your way, |
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but the harder the battle seems,
the sweeter the victory. |
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You can get it if you really want, |
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but you must try, try and try, |
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you'll succeed at last.
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You can get it if you really want! |
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But you must try, try and try. |
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You'll succeed at last. |
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Persecution you must bear,
win or loose you got to get your share |
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but your mind set on a dream
the harder it seems now. |
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You can get it if you really want! |
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