stupid people don’t get no strawberries

by Wylie Shambles

Posted to Utterances on 2002-12-07 23:15:00

Parent message is 335676
Coupla years ago we videoed an interview with a survivor of the Japanese internment camp on the Gila River reservation outside Phoenix.
My colleague asked him what his experience of prejudice had been.
The old man took a breath and said “You know, there’ll always be stupid people in the world. After we got out of the camp my Dad went back to farming. We had the only fresh, sweet, wet berries in the desert, and in season we would set up a stand to sell them on the road by the field. Every now & then some one would stop, see that we were Japanese, yell cuss words, flip us off & roar away in a cloud of dust. . . . We didn’t care. Stupid people don’t get no strawberries.”

[Caution: berry juice is very acidic and can be irritating to clits, cocks, anuses and other sensitive tissue. the writer is not responsible for what any stupid fuckhead might do with some tangential spark that might fly off this information and start a fire in the dry grass brain of some hapless American sucker trapped in the crack of a rock by a vapid whirlwind eddy of mainstream culture.]

The word is erotophobia.

(incidentally I can’t really thoroughly read all y’all’s shit right now because it is just too intense. I’ve only glanced over it, but I think I like the combined LR/DD version of the Banned in Boston piece the best. Ooops, sorry I didn’t mean to say piece. However, this comment applies to all recent posts. Whew! they’re makin’ my head spin. “Sock it to me baby!” versus “Too much, man!” in head to head combat. Ooops, sorry. Didn’t mean to say head.)