desert scene with wire and bird
the stalking and harassment has continued without ceasing...well for quite a while now however my market value has stayed steady...about zero...a good round number.... i recently read "huckleberry finn" by mark twain and published in the usa in 1885 i read it rather quickly and was somewhat disappointed...the story is rather too complicated for young readers and the wholesale use of the word "nigger" (over 100 times) seemed indulgent even in the 1880's the word was a slur...as it still is...when i recently heard sidney poitier remark that he did not come into contact with americans until he was 15 years old so did not have the habit if "cringing" around white people that was exactly the same notion i had when i visited the virgin islands...the were no "niggers" they had not learned to cringe...which is what richard pryor said when he went to africa...no "Niggers"...imagine that...i tell you what is worse than the abrupt and vile practice of prejudice is...the long slow degradation as implemented by a dominant class over a subservient class...i personally have know black men who have been "niggered" to death over a period of many years...men who had self respect and ambition who succumbed to daily "aggression" and died many years prematurely...it a gruesome thing to see...
"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market." Erich Fromm "The Sane Society"
