Update: 10/02/24 11:08:16 PM
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Hi, my name's Bob… Consider me homeless… Took a lifetime to understand that's how people see me... always have, and always will. A homeless guy livin' under a bridge. There is a history. Sort of starts...here. |
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No… read it. Not 'BASED' on a true story. 'IS' the true story. |
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Ok, that's it for
startup photos Except maybe this Indian His importance will be explained later... But first, a quick look at the barest beginning of the much loved Sugar Loaf you may have heard of... and people still come 'roun' tryin' to find. |
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Now... 'bout that
Indian It was a simple question, really. Naive, maybe 'So what kind of Indian was your grandmother?' The fact that my mother's grandmother was a full blooded somethin' or other seemed inocuous enough but I'd never really asked before. |
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Immediately my family
was glaring at me like I'd said, 'God is dead and Jesus is a Jew'. They fell into a loud scuffling quarrel and nothing was ever said about it again. I finally showed some interest and poof... The topic vanished. |
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I was flummoxed. But that was before I knew about the Tulsa race massacre, or Juneteenth, or how Indians would pose as being black because even the lowliest blacks were treated better than Injuns… Their very lives were on a constant precipice of deadly peril. Makes perfect sense my family wanted nothin' to do with that! Should prob'ly know better myself. |
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But I have no choice.
I have to show how my family was in Orange County long before the invasive Europeans stole the aboriginal homeland. Talk about Original Warwikians, get real! |
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Still, there is a
price to pay for admitting Native American bloodline. Regular Americans, shocked by my admission, will throw me onto the hate pile along with every other thing they hate. Tribals will only accuse me of cultural appropriation. |
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Remember what happened
to Elizabeth Warren when she admitted the same? That was somethin' to see. Of course Wikipedia now 'pedia-washes' the whole affair with neutralizing meaningless scouring drivel. |
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I really should know
better, but I've never been shy about admitting things other people would hide, like my sketchy Native American connection. |
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Good news for me is
I'm not running for any office, not applying for any job, don't need a loan, don't want a grant, have no boss or family to please, no team or group to placate; I have zero aspirations and not the slightest will to any kind of power; I don't use substances, don't really care what anybody thinks about me; and well uh, besides with Trump's first election it became abundantly clear that American democracy is dead and gone and absolutely nothing matters anymore anyhow. |
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Sorry, but I get to
say whatever the fuck is true and nobody has the slightest recourse; homeless guys livin' under a bridge have few advantages ... being able to factually state the simple unadorned truth is prob'ly the only perk... so screw the trolls tryin' to elbow me out from under this bridge. Off we go! |
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Oh yeah, well, right,
you can go ahead and pretend that what I'm saying is not the truth, only 'a' truth or 'my' truth; doesn't matter, I just don't give a rat's ass... all my bases are covered. |
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This film is not about
me anyway, it's about the incredible thing that happened in Sugar Loaf and the people who made it happen. You may have noticed their work swirling around this rant. |
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You might as well
scoot over to Lowes; buy the appropriate whacking mallet, and get to pounding sand. Whichever hand you like to use for whacking and pounding, you will not stop me! |
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And if you are stupid
enough to think I might be scared off by the threat of an organized mob hit, either on me or my loved ones, be advised, there is not a single person in this world I care about in the least, and I am myself fairly suicidal... even spent some time in the loony bin for it. |
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I will thank you to
take me out; go ahead; finish the job I botched. Like I said, 'Pound sand'. Now brace yourself, here comes the truth. The wondrous truth of Sugar Loaf. |
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An uncomfortable truth
for lots o' locals but it's the absolute undenied verifiable truth, hidden under generational layers of systemic racism, cultural control, and socioeconomic bias. It's the truth that keeps grappling to keep me chained under this bridge, where ironically they're afraid I'll shake the foundations. |
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I've been here before. To quote myself from introduction to Botanical Rain, 'Unlike Dian Fossey I have not yet been murdered for my truth-saying but merely pommeled relentlessly by aggressive misandry, miseldry, and misehrity.' It's been a tough row to hoe. |
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For a second there you
thought I was done, right? Hardly. Lets go back and take a closer look at those startup photos. |
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