A Section of My World

favorite 90s movies:

"congratulations, liars! you know who you are and you know who you want. ain't nothin' gonna change that. shit!"

"He hit a home run and didn't even realize it."

In 1968, during the administration of US President Lyndon B. Johnson, Eartha Kitt encountered a substantial professional setback after she made anti-war statements during a White House luncheon. Kitt was invited to the White House luncheon and was asked by Lady Bird Johnson about the Vietnam War. She replied: “You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.”

During a question and answer session, Kitt stated:

The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don’t have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason. They are rebelling against something. There are so many things burning the people of this country, particularly mothers. They feel they are going to raise sons — and I know what it’s like, and you have children of your own, Mrs. Johnson — we raise children and send them to war.

earth kitt was invited to the white house to attend what was essentially a lady’s lunch where well-bred society women paid a lot of money to be entertained in the white house. eartha was chosen to attend as a community change maker who was not previously associated with known radicals. they wanted her for the optics, obviously. and she kinda realized that at the luncheon itself. so she got fed up with the first lady talking about highway beautification and planting flowers as the best way to combat the disaffected nature of that day’s youth and requested to speak in order to say, essentially, “you’re sending our kids to die in a war they don’t believe in.”

It's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilisation. Some people hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonised by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to be colonised by. We're ruled by effete arseholes. It's a SHITE state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won't make any fucking difference!