I learned through reading labor history that the term “redneck” originated during coal miner strikes in W. Virginia. The striking miners would wear red bandanas around their necks to show solidarity.
You mentioned earlier Julie that it is a white European male thing to like women based on hair color. Hair color does vary more among people from more northern regions. Makes sense. Does that mean men from areas where hair colors vary less don’t have other things they find more alluring than others? Isn’t it true that women have traits they find more alluring than others?
I’ve been aware I live in a place where white supremacy is the dominant evil since I was a small child. I was dirt poor from a totally screwed family and am still, at sixty-five, always aware how I don’t fit here, especially here, and other places because of the not having the opportunities so many take for granted. I am also aware, and have been my entire life, that being African American or Native American would have made my situation immeasurably worse. I know about classicism and if I didn’t I’d learn it at the Sphere. I also think some of the sample slicing going on these days is getting mighty thin. There are major brutish, cruel forces in America and elsewhere today and maybe slamming men because they like a certain hair color is not the best place to focus outrage? Here in my city poor, predominantly African American, families are facing evictions and the same old racists are spewing the same shit about self-sufficiency, although the minimum wage jobs these families depend on have gone away. It isn’t a problem that needs a poet’s subtlety.
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