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Title: can someone explain what Zinn is saying here?
Post by: Hugo Chavez on October 31, 2009, 03:23:29 AM
At 51:00 minutes in, it's only a minute or so where he's talking on a bus.  Maybe I'm just tired, but I was like what the fuck and after listening a few times still wasn't sure what the hell his point was.  The film is really strange and the section I'm talking about is sureal.

The American Ruling Class
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/american_ruling_class/
Title: Re: can someone explain what Zinn is saying here?
Post by: Slapper on October 31, 2009, 08:08:59 AM
He said something like "we ought to sit down to eat some rice and beans with that Dominican (Pedro Martinez) guy who plays with the Phillies".

Methinks.
Title: Re: can someone explain what Zinn is saying here?
Post by: Hugo Chavez on October 31, 2009, 09:45:55 AM
He said something like "we ought to sit down to eat some rice and beans with that Dominican (Pedro Martinez) guy who plays with the Phillies".

Methinks.
that's sounds as good as I could get from it.  He totally lost me at the end so I'm not sure what his point was.
Title: Re: can someone explain what Zinn is saying here?
Post by: SAMSON123 on November 01, 2009, 12:01:25 PM
The point the speaker on th bus was making is those without are actually making it possible for those who have to not only have but to continue getting more. The only way inwhich this is going to change is when the have nots stop playing the part that makes the haves RICH. Essentially the HAVE NOTS must demand more so that they are not living paycheck to paycheck, they have to demand that their rights be respected, becasue as is made clear earlier on in the film...the only rights and democracy that the people have is that which the HAVES dole out and that is based upon how much money the HAVES will make off of it.

Great Film..Revealing.

Change will not come waiting on the philathropy of the wealthy or the handouts of the rich...CHANGE (forget Obama) will only come when the HAVE NOTS stand up and literally FIGHT for it (that was the visuals about the american revolution showing americans  breakign away from the HAVES in England who controlled everything).