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m redneck and why should they be given redneck s origin as a term to describe hard working farmers whose necks were burned red by exposure to the sun but given all the negative connotations that label has it seems outside the realm of possibility to the producers of the show that one can be comfortable and even proud of a rural southern identity in comments of posts or articles that talk about the show you will commonly see them called white trash as well now i have to say first that while i understand the sentiments of poor white people and scholars who have tried to reclaim the term white trash it is a very problematic term particularly in its implication that white trash is such an anomaly that we must include a racial marker most white people are not perceived to be trash thus the label but what does this say we think about people of color the racialized terms by which we are referred have been constructed in ways that imply an innate subordination impoverishment less ness in a way that the term white has not been constructed in fact so anomalous is white trash that scholar matt wray explored the idea that people given this label are often perceived as not quite white for the purposes of this essay i want to focus on another adverse meaning of the labeling of the shannon thompson family as white trash in the words of matt wray and annalee newitz white trash is often the white other the difference indeed the threat within the bounds of the privileged status of whiteness there is no clearer evidence in honey boo boo that the south and in this case white southerners are being othered portrayed as foreign unknown and unknowable than the fact that the family s speech is captioned as if our english is any more accented than that of people from other regions of the united states but those other accents are normative unnoticeable default and in the end not an accent at all but the way real usians talk i think the whole family is portrayed in a way to make each member an object of ridicule but i believe our greatest disgust is supposed to be reserved for june june seems to me to have a great attitude she finds the humor in many situations and she is affectionate with her girls she is confident about her relationship with sugar bear and her attractiveness to him she is a bit adventurous and she likes to have fun june is also money savvy she endeavors to be an extreme couponer you save money for your family that s what it s all about she said on jimmy kimmel live i could be a multi millionare and still want to get the best deal for my family additionally she s putting the show s earnings into trust funds for her children noting that i want my kids to look back and say mama played it smart funny confident beautiful smart apparently those are all things forbidden to fat southern women when june decides to have fun on a water slide the camera focuses on the fact that she struggles to climb it even then she laughs amiably at herself and is clearly having a good time but the joke is supposed to be on her haha she s too fat for this she notes that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that she and sugar bear both appreciate her beauty a fact that he confirms yet she is shown as the opposite of all those things that are constructed as beautiful in our society from her disdain for makeup to her refusal to obsess over her weight and true to common characterization of southerners there are plenty of duh moments when we are given the impression that the family members are not intelligent i cannot in one post catalogue all the ways this woman is mocked and cast as the butt of some joke that everyone else is in on but what really endears june and indeed all her family to me is the fact that in the face of a country that derides most things about them they stay proud and true to who they are something that i understand as and i deeply deeply hope is a refusal to accept the mandate that they apologize for being themselves for being working class and southern when i see june i am reminded of liss s post about having the audacity to be fat and happy and i can t help smiling myself for me the othering of the south and southerners the positioning of us as inferior to northerners the constant stream of jokes about our stupidity and in breeding our strange food and even deadly until soul food and southern food are properly gentrified by northern chefs but that s another post and weird customs means that i proclaim my southern ness often and loudly from the language i use on social media to referring to myself as a southern b elle to making a conscious effort to use my real voice in my classes and other settings so that my accent which i find lovely and luscious shines through and while part of that has come from the process of being comfortable in my own skin part of it is definitely a ha i am progressive smart funny and southern thumbing of my nose at those who would believe such a person cannot exist i read june s actions and attitude in the same light i have a delightful feeling that i am right posted by elle at 2 00 pm 4 comments labels classism fat fat phobia gender racism rural america the south the working poor women friday april 05 2013 aargh sometimes i hate reading the news between president obama s willingness to cut social security and medicare cuts which would affect veterans the poor and the older americans and the state of tennessee s foolishness a tennessee bill that would cut welfare benefits of parents with children performing poorly in school cleared committees of both the house and senate last week and twice a year tennessee holds a health care lottery that gives some hope to the uninsured residents in the state who can t afford health coverage tennesseans who meet certain requirements in addition to falling below a certain income threshold they must be elderly blind disabled or a caretaker of a child who qualifies for medicaid may call to request an application for the state s public health insurance program known as tenncare snip state residents who have high medical bills but would not normally qualify for medicaid the government health care program for the poor can call a state phone line and request an application but the window is tight the line shuts down after 2 500 calls typically within an hour and the demand is so high that it is difficult to get through snip if tennessee gov bill haslan r opted to expand medicaid under obamacare more than 180 000 people would be able to be added to the tenncare rolls by 2019 haslan has not yet decided whether tennessee will accept obamacare s optional expansion of the medicaid program although he has indicated that he may make his decision sometime this week week of 25 march 2013 i despair of our ever having a truly effective safety net also it must be nice to have the luxury of time to decide if 180 000 people who need healthcare can get it uh oh governor your privilege is showing posted by elle at 10 55 am no comments labels classism health hospitals and health care human rights politics safety state violence the working poor welfare tuesday october 16 2012 on the anniversary of the harpers ferry raid let me just say off the top i love john brown a devoted abolitionist willing to pay the ultimate price to bring slavery to its end it s the stuff of fantasy for people who think like i for many other people who have lived in the u s since 1859 it s a reason to portray the man as crazy and unstable john brown s contemporaries didn t think of him in these terms according to james loewen in lies my teacher told me instead this portrayal arose largely to dismiss his efforts his dedication and because it is hard for people to imagine that a white man would give his life to destroy the slave system i tell my students it s the same reason people try to make the civil war about everything except slavery white people were willing to tear their country apart and kill each other and black people were at the heart of it oh no but i as usual digress i admired brown and didn t believe the characterizations even before i read loewen s book i wrote a paper about him during my m a program in defense of his sanity my professor thought i was in denial as i ve grown since i am trying to think of careful ways to have this argument if i try to redeem john brown by insisting that he did not grapple with mental illness am i just from another perspective furthering stereotypes about those that we label crazy and so i want to make it clear that my issue right now is not so much insisting that john brown was perfectly sane but in the common invocation of mental illness to render people and their actions questionable insignificant or downright wrong maybe brown was an extremist in the sense that mlk jr used the term in his letter from birmingham jail maybe brown faced that choice mlk talked about choosing what kind of extremist to be will we be extremists for hate or for love will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice king asked that brown may have struggled a century before with just such a sentiment is evident in his words h ad i so interfered in behalf of the rich the powerful the intelligent the so called great or in behalf of any of their friends either father mother brother sister wife or children or any of that class and suffered and sacrificed what i have in this interference it would have been all right and every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment i believe that to have interfered as i have done as i have always freely admitted i have done in behalf of his despised poor was not wrong but right now if it is deemed necessary that i should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked cruel and unjust enactments i submit so let it be done i will always love me some john brown posted by elle at 5 19 pm 1 comment labels african americans history injustice john brown slavery tuesday october 09 2012 quick thoughts on fisher v ut the supreme court is set to hear arguments in fisher v ut i m anxious abigail fisher claims she was rejected by ut because she was white i think cases like this get at the heart of who is believed deserving or meritorious or entitled a word usually used viciously against poor people of color but abigail fisher certainly felt she was entitled to something why do i say that because it doesn t particularly matter to plaintiffs in cases like this about any other source of perceived unfair advantage as tim wise noted some time ago f or every student of color who received even the slightest consideration from an affirmative action program in college there are two whites who failed to meet normal qualification requirements at the same school but who got in anyway because of parental influence alumni status or because other favors were done but we don t hear about the unfairness of parental influence or legacy policies and as noted in a brief from ut fisher also was denied admission to the summer program which offered provisional admission to some applicants who were denied admission to the fall class subject to completing certain academic requirements over the summer although one african american and four hispanic applicants with lower combined ai pai scores than petitioner s were offered admission to the 16 summer program so were 42 caucasian applicants with combined ai pai scores identical to or lower than petitioner s in addition 168 african american and hispanic applicants in this pool who had combined ai pai scores identical to or higher than petitioner s were denied admission to the summer program i doubt if amy fisher is worried about those 42 caucasian applicants who got in because we are more likely to think they somehow deserved it and what of the 168 students of color with scores identical or higher to hers who were denied admission how is that explained no it s only an issue when a person of color is perceived to have gained something that rightfully should have gone to a white person it is rooted in the belief that somewhere out there there has to be a white person who is better qualified or more deserving or who merits more it s the jesse helms hands ad writ large like deborah archer i believe that altough america has made substantial progress in race relations there remains a systemic racial hierarchy that produces and perpetuates racial disparities in educational outcomes race conscious admissions programs like the one used by ut austin are designed to counter this systemic racism and create a vital pipeline to educational and professional opportunities for minority students the proven success of these programs in increasing equal opportunity serves as compelling evidence of their value and counsels in favor of continuing them and as a professor and a woman of color it s why i am anxious posted by elle at 8 59 am 1 comment labels education people of color schools sistorian social justice the legal system friday july 27 2012 well it s not exactly extreme couponing some couponing info some of my neighbors know me well enough to just hand me their coupons if we meet at the mailbox i ll also get extras from the post office that people throw on the table or on top of the recycle bin yes these are typically more than i can use but here are some things i ve done lately 1 my kids like the dole aguas frescas a 64 oz carton is 2 i cut out about 15 1 off coupons and buy 3 at a time they ve been drinking them and making popsicles with them 2 leave the extras by the product in the store for example i cut out some 2 off l oreal true match face product coupons there aren t many people of my complexion on this side of town ahem so the foundation and powder colors that match me like cappucino and nut brown were on clearance at heb for under 6 regularly 8 12 the pressed powders happened to be packaged with a free blush so i got 2 liquid foundations 2 powders and 2 blushes for about 16 and left the rest of the coupons on the shelf 3 rose art has a coupon for 1 off 3 or more of their products right now you can get their glue and crayons and stuff for under 40 cents the crayons are a quarter so i m thinking i can get four packs free the glue is 34 cents so i can get 3 of them for 2 cents even if you don t have school age children you can donate the stuff that s my plan because i ve collected several of those 4 check for stores that are moving or going out of business or having clearance sales i cleaned up at a michael s out here last weekend lots of stuff deeply discounted plus they had a 25 off your total purchase coupon and when they have those 40 or 50 off one item coupons i give everyone money and we all buy something even four year old deuce also i got 4 collage picture frames a butterfly for my wall 3 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