radman says: I have read this book, and I would like to second the recommendation that it should be read. It it written in a highly entertaining and engaging style and the conclusions drawn are tough to dispute. Be aware, though, that the author, Jim Goad, although highly literate, published the VERY controversial 'zine "Answer Me!", which included rape fantasies, among other really weird stuff. He is currently in an Oregon prison serving a two-year term for beating the crap out of his girlfriend, which he gleefully recounts in the book "Apocalypse Culture II." White trash, indeed! ---- At 08:10 PM 12/10/00 -0500, you wrote: >For list members who would like to see a very >politically incorrect book well worth reading, >I recommend The Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad. >This hard-hitting book, a brilliant defense of >white trash, kicks the hell out of every liberal >illusion out there and gets down to the bare >naked truth I understood 35 years ago: what >we have in this country is primarily a problem >of class injustice, not race injustice. > > ~ Michael Wright > Norman, Oklahoma
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