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When I tell people at Harvard about my experiences in a racially divided public high school in Southern Illinois they are quick to condemn such racism. Upon hearing about the gas attendant in a small town who stared at me like I was green instead of brown, some people laugh and others lament the fact that "things have not changed" in rural America. But while my friends show sympathy, they are quick to point out that I'm now safe in tolerant, civilized New England...
...doomed? Well, there can be no question that the Beavis and Butt-head phenomenon is ubiquitous. Laugh that moronic laugh in any group and people will instantly know what you are doing--and will most likely join in. In 1992, when the "Wayne's World" movie hit its peak of popularity, it was hard to get through a conversation without using the word "not." Like Wayne and Garth, Beavis and Butt-head have become a point of cultural reference...
...know nothing about each other have a few things in common; if our generation watches too much TV, at least we all watch too much TV. Television is our language, transcending all geographical and intellectual boundaries. If we can't always communicate perfectly, at least we can all laugh like morons together. For ages, great leaders of all kinds have failed to bring us together; Beavis and Butt-head have some how succeeded. That's cool...
Make Us Cry Until We Laugh...
...worth $825,000, provoked widespread elation. Inevitably, some people privately suspected that Morrison won because she is a black female. Had the prize gone to Pynchon, of course, the same skeptics would not have assumed it was because he is a white male. No one can understand, and probably laugh at, this double standard better than Morrison. She has dealt with it, triumphantly, throughout her life and through her fiction...