Go and see the film. Very well played. Wonderful
photography. A coming of age story of a black kid, surrounded by drugs, poverty,
broken home, and on top of it all, he has to deal with his homosexuality and
with the mobbing that comes with it.
But what really did it for me in this film, is the
understanding how Trump got elected. This enormous underclass that has nothing
to lose, whose life is so very far away from what Washington does or says or
the way it lives – these people rightly do not give a damn about who is
President. They know from experience that whoever gets elected – things will
not change for them.
Their choice was between Hillary, a remote woman in
Washington, from a different planet and a glitzy TV personality, who they know
from “The Apprentice” programme, whose gross language resembles theirs and who
is despised by the people they despise – the enemy of thy enemy etc. So
millions voted Trump with a “what the Shit” attitude. And now the Shit is in
the White House. The Shit is on all of us.
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