Friday, August 22, 2008

Riffs on Grapes of Wrath

When John McCain claimed that white people would not pick lettuce in Arizona for $50 an hour, it inspired one DailyKos blogger to create a screenplay about the Joads trying to get into AZ to pick lettuce. They are stopped by border guards.
Tom Joad: McCain's workin' away our spirits, tryin' to make us cringe and crawl, ... takin' away our decency, offerin' to pay us fifty dollars an hour to do a job no white man would do. Shouldna' never left my job as a fifteen dollar an hour software programmer back in Oklahoma...
Ma Joad: That job made ya mean, Tom. It made ya real durn hard-mean...

Can you pick the lettuce? No you can't.

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