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Chapter 49

 

 

  

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.

  

  

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.

  

  

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.

  

  

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:

  

  

You can get it if you really want!

  

  

But you must try, try and try.

  

  

You'll succeed at last.

  

  

Persecution you must bear,
win or loose you got to get your share

  

  

but your mind set on a dream
the harder it seems now.

  

  

You can get it if you really want.

  

  

Rome wasn't built in a day,
opposition will come your way,

  

  

but the harder the battle seems,
the sweeter the victory.

  

 

You can get it if you really want,

  

 

but you must try, try and try,

  

 

you'll succeed at last.

  

 

You can get it if you really want!

  

 

But you must try, try and try.

  

 

You'll succeed at last.

  

 

Persecution you must bear,
win or loose you got to get your share

  

 

but your mind set on a dream
the harder it seems now.

  

 

You can get it if you really want!

  

 
  

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