I’ve been to Georgia on a fast train, honey.
I wa’n’t born no yesterday.
I got a good Christian raisin’ and an eighth-grade education.
Ain’t no need in y’all a treatin’ me this way.
Georgia on a Fast Train
Billy Shaver, songwriter
Tom Hanks gratuitously insulted white Americans in SNL’s televised 50th-anniversary celebration a few days ago. In a sketch titled Black Jeopardy, Hanks played a Forrest Gump-style white guy with a hick accent and MAGA hat. To drive home the point that MAGA Republicans are racists, Hanks’s character pointedly refused to shake hands with a black man.
Perhaps Hanks sensed folks living in Flyover Country have stopped attending Hollywood movies and figured it was safe to make fun of the rubes. If so, he’s right. I’ll never watch another Tom Hanks film.
Hanks is clueless about a significant cultural shift across America. He probably thought he was ridiculing a marginal group when, in fact, it is Hanks and the coastal elites who are marginalized.
Hanks, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and a host of wealthy celebrities and media luminaries were just fine with a nation headed by Joe Biden, a demented crook, and his giggling idiot sidekick, Kamala Harris. After all, the elites are wealthy; the system works just fine for them.
The rest of us, however, are concerned about fentanyl flowing across the southern border, Social Security checks going out to dead centenarians, and the senseless war in Ukraine. People who buy their own groceries are alarmed by the spike in food prices.
Millions of Americans are waking up to the fact that Anthony Fauci hoodwinked us with the COVID vaccines. No wonder Fauci thinks he needs Uncle Sam’s security protection.
It’s time for people in Flyover Country to boycott the vacuous cultural garbage being spewed out by people who hate their audiences. The richness and vitality of American culture is in the Heartland, not Manhattan or Hollywood.
To put it another way, “Stupid is as stupid does,” and the coastal elites are stupid to disdain the people who made them successful. And that, as Forrest Gump might say, is all I have to say about that.
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