Well, on the other hand, you can’t expect people working for minimum wage, maybe lucky enough to be living that “uniquely American experience” of working three minimum wage jobs, to really be putting in time on the environment. I’m lazy as all hell, I’ll tell you right out. If I don’t one day a week to lay around doing nothing, I bitch about it until next week. And I don’t work three minimum wage, which you know are going to be physical labor, jobs. I’d laugh in your face if I did, and you started bitching to me about the environment. I’ll be worked to death long before that happens, is what I’d tell you.
And calling middle class whites who are activists “fancy pants” isn’t helpful. I hate when people pull that on me. Sorry I wasn’t born poor and have nice shoes, does that mean I have no right to care? But that’s nothing, a small thing, the point is we are in a bad position today. In the 60’s you had the unique occurrences of having an anti-war movement, a civil rights movement, and a woman’s movement, all powerful and big in their own rights, who could get some shit done.
We just don’t have that now. That doesn’t mean that events can’t so transpire to put into play several different, large, and juiced, movements, but we don’t have it right now.
If the weather effects of global warming get worse and worse, and if certain things occur within the black c community to really incite a large, civil rights movement up again, you could have two very powerful movements there. I don’t know where the third would come from unless, there’s a draft.
