A New Reality
“When the angry older woman with the anti-Trump button asked the clerk to turn off the song, the younger woman looked at her sympathetically and said, “I don’t know how.” In that moment, something seemed to click.
Of course, this woman thought that “Sweet Home Alabama” could just be turned off. After all, we can block out things we disagree with. We can unfriend people on Facebook, block them on Twitter, and decide not to let their negativity be a part of lives. For many progressives, this is the key to wellness.
But turning off Skynyrd doesn’t make it go away. Somewhere in the land where the stars still shine, it plays on, whether you hear it or not. The shock and despair in Brooklyn over Hillary Clinton’s unfathomable defeat comes in no small part because her denizens refused to hear the rumblings of an America they chose to ignore.” Here…
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I shop at that store all the time. They have a standing discount for tugboat and barge crews. Guys show up in camo hats and no man-buns, we do get some dirty looks.
Fairway staffs their Red Hook store with ladies mostly from the projects down the street in the one remaining bad part of town- the projects itself. The ladies put up with no BS, but gaunt and grumpy wealthyish hipster women are the lifeblood of that store, so they do get to acting like they own the place.
My right-hand man called me a fatherless faggot in the shampoo section there a few months ago. The looks we got were precious.