Re: The joy of Democracy

On 10/22/24 10:08 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On 23 Oct 2024 01:49:42 GMT, rbowman wrote:
 

Diddy may have been affluent but he hardly was elite.

 Sure he was -- how else did he get away with his criminal acts for so
long?
 Phil Spector, too, was affluent elite -- and did lots of unsavoury things
before killing Lana Clarkson.
 

One could, and you probably do, assume some huge conspiracy of
privileged whites to keep people of color down, or one could ask if
there is more to the story.

 Some say Elvis Presley was created specifically to stop white girls going
wild over Chuck Berry.
 All it did was delay the inevitable.

   Sorta.
   Elvis though was not so much a product of Big Money
   or Big Politics ... he was naturally appealing and
   came to fame from the bottom up.
   Indeed the USG tried to destroy his career by drafting
   him into the mil. Other "lesser" stars were promoted as
   replacements during that time. None had the charisma
   however ... so it didn't work.
   I'm old enough to REMEMBER some of this stuff.
   But none of it had anything to do with Linux ...