The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America

by Sarah Kendzior

They know that if you have a job and work hard, you should be able to do more than survive. They know that every person, every profession, is worthy of dignity and respect.

is hard to plan for what is already gone.

We should fear a society that puts people on trial the day they are born. And after they die.

the circumstances into which you are born increasingly determine who you can become.

racism erases the individual until the individual is dead, where he is then recast as

the enemy.

young black man can be murdered on perception. A young black man becomes the criminal so that the real criminal can go free.

Those the public are taught to fear are often the ones in danger.

Success is solidarity.

is a purchased loyalty oath to an imagined employer. College shows you are serious enough about your life to risk ruining it early on.

You do not need a college education to know you have been screwed.

Paranoia is aggression masked as defense.