Post by Heightism Report on May 3, 2017 22:34:48 GMT
bittersoutherner.com/digging-in-the-trash-david-joy
This is an article about how people view folks who live in trailers, and how society deems it ok to judge the types of people that the article discusses. The article certainly has plenty of merit and signifies a group of people that is forgotten in society, but I found the following passages interesting.
"There was a big, black boy named Darrell who was one of my best friends at Tuckaseegee Elementary. Both of us were about a foot too tall for our age, but I was a vine and he was built like a tank. "
"There was a little, stubby moon-faced boy named Smokey who was a few years younger than me. We all smoked cigarettes. He was about eight or nine years old and he’d steal soft packs of Doral 100s from his mother’s carton she kept in the freezer. One time, a buddy and me pushed Smokey out into the middle of a farm pond in a leaky johnboat without a paddle and pelted him with rotten goose eggs till he threw up over the side. One time I remember a kid making fun of Smokey for living in a trailer. Smokey hauled off and hit him right in his mouth and exclaimed, “I don’t live in a goddamn trailer! I live in a double-wide!” The bottom line was Smokey understood class just like I did, that where you live doesn’t have a thing in the world to do with what a man deserves."
Notice how the author's first descriptions of everyone is in regard to their size. Also, notice how Smokey "just so happened" to be the one who got shoved into the middle of the pond and have rotten eggs thrown at him. Smokey is also the only one in the story who got ridiculed for living in a trailer. Darrell, who was a black kid living in a rural trailer park area wasn't the one who got bullied. You don't think him being "about a foot too tall for his age" and being "built like a tank" factored into him not being ridiculed for where he lived, do you? Of course, it didn't. All of this is just a big coincidence. Smokey, was the one who stole cigarettes for the group, but this didn't seem to earn him group leader status, on the contrary, it seems that he was the designated whipping boy when it came time for childhood pranks, and when it came time for people who lived in better houses to flaunt their superiority. It's all a coincidence though. Smokey being "little" had nothing to do with him having to fight for respect much more so than anyone in the story. It's amazing how much of this stuff I come across when I'm not even looking for it.
This is an article about how people view folks who live in trailers, and how society deems it ok to judge the types of people that the article discusses. The article certainly has plenty of merit and signifies a group of people that is forgotten in society, but I found the following passages interesting.
"There was a big, black boy named Darrell who was one of my best friends at Tuckaseegee Elementary. Both of us were about a foot too tall for our age, but I was a vine and he was built like a tank. "
"There was a little, stubby moon-faced boy named Smokey who was a few years younger than me. We all smoked cigarettes. He was about eight or nine years old and he’d steal soft packs of Doral 100s from his mother’s carton she kept in the freezer. One time, a buddy and me pushed Smokey out into the middle of a farm pond in a leaky johnboat without a paddle and pelted him with rotten goose eggs till he threw up over the side. One time I remember a kid making fun of Smokey for living in a trailer. Smokey hauled off and hit him right in his mouth and exclaimed, “I don’t live in a goddamn trailer! I live in a double-wide!” The bottom line was Smokey understood class just like I did, that where you live doesn’t have a thing in the world to do with what a man deserves."
Notice how the author's first descriptions of everyone is in regard to their size. Also, notice how Smokey "just so happened" to be the one who got shoved into the middle of the pond and have rotten eggs thrown at him. Smokey is also the only one in the story who got ridiculed for living in a trailer. Darrell, who was a black kid living in a rural trailer park area wasn't the one who got bullied. You don't think him being "about a foot too tall for his age" and being "built like a tank" factored into him not being ridiculed for where he lived, do you? Of course, it didn't. All of this is just a big coincidence. Smokey, was the one who stole cigarettes for the group, but this didn't seem to earn him group leader status, on the contrary, it seems that he was the designated whipping boy when it came time for childhood pranks, and when it came time for people who lived in better houses to flaunt their superiority. It's all a coincidence though. Smokey being "little" had nothing to do with him having to fight for respect much more so than anyone in the story. It's amazing how much of this stuff I come across when I'm not even looking for it.
