My mother grew up on Minute Maid’s Florida groves. Her family were migrant workers. From the Carolinas to South Florida, they picked oranges, tomatoes, and cotton. My mother was born in 1942, the last of 17 children. Her family lived in a one-room shack with a dirt floor. Describing the conditions of Florida’s migrant workers, the former United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Joseph A. Califano, wrote in his memoir, Inside: A Public and Private Life (2005): We …
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Recently George Clooney wrote and directed The Monuments Men, a true story about a World War II platoon, requested by FDR, to go into Nazi Germany and recover artistic masterpieces. Clooney’s vision of the war story, from what I’ve heard, despite its low Rotten Tomatoes rating, is “engaging,” but restrained. The 2006 PBS documentary, based on the 1994 book, The Rape of Europa is ridiculous. Rejected by Austria’s top art academies, it portrays Hitler as a frustrated artist that sought to …
India comedy crew All India Bakchod do a bit about India’s rape culture. Are you working the late shift and walking home alone? Are you not fighting back? Do you hate yourself? Are you wearing clothes? Don’t you know men have eyes? Rape? It’s your fault. As the video goes on the women are increasingly bruised and bloodied. Is this ok? Sarcasm and rape as a tool for social commentary is seemingly effective to some and offensive to others, but in …
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