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Crackers (Entry 290.NA0302)

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The Ego Space Program: The Library of the 21st Century

The terms cracker, redneck, hillbilly were adopted by white people because there was a need to differentiate between good white whites and bad. They are because America is based on the idea that ultimately everybody wants to go up a level in class. And that's not up alevel in wealth because we're very happy to have poor. Poor white people, but we want them to aspire. We want them to be in the system. John: Jeff Bezos seems less interested in libraries and more interested in his own like, ego space program. Although maybe the ego space program is the library of the 21st century.

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