I was working at US Steel in Gary when the so-called authorities had the arrogance to think they could take away Muhammad Ali’s title. One of my co-workers, a young white fellow with long hair, said, “He’ll always be the champ. He whipped the U.S. government.”
HARD CRACKERS
American society is a time-bomb where the big explosion, whatever its form might be, is endlessly hinted at by the more or less horrifying “little” degradations of daily rape, murder, stupid violence of different varieties (perhaps most notably urban gang violence), episodic mass killings (with or without apparent motive), drug and alcohol-induced stupors, drug overdoses, […]