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Saturday, November 01, 2008

The Trash Dispatch Searches for Trash to Dispatch!

Ok, so, I got to thinkin. The Trash Dispatch! Roaming the planet collecting and dispatching Political trash, Religious trash, Conservative, Liberal, and Independent trash. Black trash, White trash, Red, Yellow, and Brown trash. Celebrity trash, Sports trash, Local, Global, and even Universal trash. Trash Piles, Trash Dumps, Trash Heaps of every size, shape, color. And even trash, that to another man might seem as treasure. But that to me, it is Just Trash! Hmmm?


from wikipedia:

  • White Trash- White trash is a pejorative term targeted at lower social class white peoplewhite trash is to accuse a white person of being economically, educationally and/or culturally bankrupt. White trash should be differentiated from the more socially acceptable term Redneck, as each has a unique historical etymology and context in modern usage. While white trash is most commonly used as a pejorative, low- to middle-income rural whites often self-identify as rednecks. with poor prospects and/or low levels of education.
Interesting. Please continue.
  • The term white trash originated in the Baltimore and Washington, DC area during the 1820s post-revolutionary war reconstruction boom. During that period, many poor people migrated to the area, and white and black semi-skilled workers were competing for the same jobs, resources and marriage partners. The term white trash first came into common use in the 1830s as a pejorative used by upper-class United States southerners of all races against poor whites. It was synonymous with the slurs sand hiller and clay eater. White trash were hyperbolically assumed to farm ineptly on poor land, and therefore resort to eating clay in order to survive.

    In 1854 Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the chapter "Poor White Trash" in her book A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe tells the reader that slavery not only produces "degraded, miserable slaves", but also poor whites who are even more degraded and miserable. The plantation system forced those whites to struggle for subsistence. Beyond economic factors, Stowe traces this class to the shortage of schools and churches in their community, and says that both blacks and whites in the area look down on these "poor white trash". Sociologist Max Weber described white trash as "[those] not owning slaves".
"Those not owning slaves". Now that is interesting.
But you want to know what is even More interesting?

I "Googled" the word "Trash".
And not once did the Trash Dispatch come up.
Instead all I got was;
You see what I mean? No Trash Dispatch!
There were a lot more results to be sure. And maybe I'll get around to posting those sooner or later. But, for now... I'm Trashed!!!

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