So I haven't been feeling all that well lately and fell asleep on the couch with the TV on...

[WCGreen]

I suppose a lot of men my age probably do the same during the Football season.

I woke up and the movie Sounder was on.

Now I had heard a lot about that movie over the years, about the abject poverty that these poor southern black folk had to live in...

But seeing it was a jolt.

I was struck by how primitive they lived in a supposedly modern world.

But I also thought that that probably wasn't all that far off for most of our ancestors, probably a hundred or so years ago, just that the African Americans were left behind as usual.

Now I got to thinking about how far we have come in the last 100-150 years or so, but then I also got to thinking if we elect a couple of more republican administrations, that is where, I firmly believe, most of us who now populate the middle class will be.

We will be beholden to the white pasty faced fat ass holes like Karl Rove who lie, cheat and steel and do what ever it takes to get to the top.

We will be the equivalent of the old time Share Croppers.

Last night, I watched the end of the Movie The Emperor's Club and how the popular kid cheated in the intellectual competition and how he cheated again, 25 years ago, in order to get his friends to accept him as he prepared to run for the Senate.

And even when the former student was confronted by his righteous former teacher, he laughed at the outmoded way he thought.

The competition in the past and in the present was framed by the, till now, most corrupted and powerful society in the west, the Roman Empire.

All I could think about was how awful our future looks right now and how family's, like those depicted in Sounder, always seem to find away to survive, even under the most abject conditions you can imagine.