Political Videos

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Oh what radicalized you? I'll fucking tell you what radicalized me. When I was in eighth grade my dad came home from a miserable terrible grueling day at work and said 'Hey put your shoes on we have to go to the school board meeting"

Now I'd never been to a school board meeting, didn't really even know what they were for but what I did know was that my school had just implemented a policy that anyone could get a free lunch at school regardless of their financial status. Rich kid gets a free lunch. Poor kid gets a free lunch, paid for by the taxpayer.

Now eighth grade me thought that was a really fucking good deal. I still think that and I thought then that anybody with a rational fucking brain cell would think the same. But we got to that school board meeting and I watched as the same people I saw at Sunday church every Sunday stood up in front of the board and talked about how this was a terrible thing and that they were all shelling out for people that didn't need a free lunch.

And then I watched as my Dad, the strongest hardest working man I've ever known my life; I mean he could bend a horseshoe in half with his bare fucking hands. My dad stood up and he said "Hey I know exactly what it feels like to be the kid that needs the free lunch. I grew up on free lunch. And I also know what it feels like to feel the stigma behind that in your classmates."

He said, "If you have a problem paying for these free lunches then you can bill me." And then he looked at the school board and said, "Thank you for your time" and then we left.

Now eighth grade me thought well maybe it's just a problem in my slack jawed yokel of a hometown. But the more I've grown up the more I've seen that this is not just a problem in 2,000 people towns. It's a problem nationwide and that the same people that are having these problems are the same that are at church every fucking Sunday. That's what radicalized me.