Saturday, September 03, 2005
Amistad
As the elderly black housemaid in the movie Being There remarked, upon seeing the idiot son of a rich white man she'd catered to all his life on TV as an advisor to the President of the US, "It's sho'nuff a white man's world."
Scanning through the photos of the week, from the descendents of slaves hanging on to the sides of rescue boats in Louisiana to the idiot son in the sky looking out his port hole on Air Force One, it's hard to avoid imagining a national ID system with three choices: Amistad, Mayflower, Other.
Scanning through the photos of the week, from the descendents of slaves hanging on to the sides of rescue boats in Louisiana to the idiot son in the sky looking out his port hole on Air Force One, it's hard to avoid imagining a national ID system with three choices: Amistad, Mayflower, Other.
