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To: bentway who wrote (510294)	9/4/2009 10:28:08 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1579772

It’s an American Gothic thing—or, by any other name, a white trash thing. On the fringe of communities across the country there is a mutant culture: trashy, marginal, uneducated, unhealthy, and nutty. People cluck about it, and are fairly careful to avoid it, but are, too, remarkably laissez-faire towards it. This is partly because white trash means…white. And partly because, in America, a white man’s home is his castle (no matter how much debris is in the yard), and you just don’t ask too many questions (and because so many homes in America look like the homes of sex offenders). The irony is a neighbor did complain once....she found out Garrido was a sex offender and she saw the little girls playing in his yard. So she called 911 and complained. A cop came out and did a very cursory look/see.....found nothing and left. The woman who complained was black. The cop was white.