But whoever drives a pre-2000 Mercedes diesel is Salt of the Earth and a True Homie, regardless of skin color, ethnicity (or lack thereof), age, cultural background, or political persuasion.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Dan--- via Mercedes <[email protected]> wrote: > I would say that the issues I saw in MS were racism, truly the black vs. > white thing. The Boston situation sounds far more like a cultural thing > than racism. I’ve seen the cultural thing play out in places like South > Florida, where the Cubans have been displaced by the Haitians, the Haitians > by the Guatemalans, etc., etc., as the waves of immigrants come into the > country and gentrify the area. The cultures seem to have little tolerance > for each other, and the ones who are the most “landed” seem to feel a sense > of ownership, resenting the presence of the newcomers. How quickly they > forget! > > “There goes the neighborhood”.... > > -D > > > > On Jun 7, 2018, at 12:27 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > --R wrote: > >> Musings... > > > > WOW - a summary treatise for a tome about culture in america. > > The story that set my interest to MS years ago featured the MS river > > edge where it was too thick/impassable to traverse to the river until > > a utility company carved the path. Culture seemed to be mentioned in > > the story so it seemed attractive. i.e. real people, no mention of a > > disliked<->hated aspect, but this was from liberal main stream media > > NPR that shall not mention disliked<->hated aspects. --R thanks for > > your musings which are probably real anywhere. For me, the city/burbs > > is more expensive than gov't retirement takings are paying out and no > > savings so my scramble needs to happen. It seems to be said that > > rent/food expenses should not exceed 60% of resources? Yeah, that > > never happened so savings was not but there were years that easy > > seemed to happen for a few years so... I'm thankful. We made it with > > tons of memory to make life. Life still continues so a different > > scene needs to happen so maybe the 60% plateau can be approached. > > > > Snook - Issaquena County sounds interesting unless the > > disliked<->hated aspect becomes like Deliverance=ugghh. To get to 60% > > of resources, perhaps the combination of rural and poverty can be > > approached by city slicker with low resources? The low resource gig > > did okay as you know via many years of musings from me at okiebenz. > > Thanks okiebenz for speaking - encouragement is nice from "fake" > > friends (i.e. online / email = "fake") several of whom have been face > > to face (MMM, Kaleb, Snook, DBT, DBV, Curley, Rusty, Hursty). > > tin > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
