Urban Colonialism is not a term you’re likely to hear in our city-centric media; or from smug “form based” futurists.
Rural people are a backwards people whose lives [and lands] are being improved; because, like the natives in other colonizations: keeping their culture is not worth considering.
The deeper you look the more parallels you will find — but who cares?
Words are an age-old means of obfuscation and misrepresentation. From riddles to reasoning; words are the leaders in misleading.
Words are used to sell you on a policy or an idea “As Is” — never buy one without a thorough inspection.
The use of words to promote and to describe oppression is one the threads in this book.
Some musical comedies don’t get old — especially with a story line of the common people rising against those who have unlawfully usurped power and are now fighting among themselves for ascendancy.
How would you advertise “Quake: The Musical”? With bulleted text, of course. Bloody brilliant.
“Equitable” is a bureaucratic term for “We’ll decide who is worthy of being helped.” If more than four-fifths of the state’s COVID deaths were among its vulnerable elderly; how can it “equitable” to deliberately reroute the vaccine to a much younger and healthier population?
Cuomo claims that this decision is guided by the historical plight of “underserved” communities in New York City: but ignores the needs of the state’s historically even more underserved rural communities. Would anyone allow an Urban Community to be told by municipal planners that they “don’t deserve to live there,” and to be excluded from any participation or importance in their own future?
This is the sort of policy making that happens routinely, unchecked and unreported, in rural New York State.
“Equitable” and “underserved” are part of a future that appears more like “Lord of the Flies” than a Peaceable Kingdom.
They are terms that define a government that searches; not for a greater compassion — but for a greater control.
“The real tragedy of these small enclaves of marginality and poverty is that people are playing a game of life that has been structured in such a way that they are required to play but prevented from winning.” — Janet Fitchen, “Poverty in Rural America”
In rural New York; No one can hear your scream.
ur·ban co·lo·nial·ism | \ ˈər-bən kə-ˈlō-nē-ə-ˌli-zəm, -nyə-ˌli- \
1 : of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting control by a city over a rural area or people
2 : a policy advocating or based on such control
Industrial Farming is a powerful tool for promoting Urban Colonialism. — Alexander Zebadiah, The Cornithican, “The Urgent Case for Rural Activism,” 28 Dec. 2020
ur·ban col·o·ni·za·tion | \ ˈər-bən kä-lə-nə-ˈzā-shən \
: an act or instance of Urban Colonizing
Urban colonizers often employed these racist characterizations as justifications for the exploitation and Urban Colonization of rural New York. — Nora Fitchen, Rural Poverty as a result of Urban Colonization, 2021
This is the neatest explanation for why Form Based Codes have been used for Urban Colonization of rural communities. — Alexander Zebadiah, The Cornithican, “The Urgent Case for Rural Activism,” 28 Dec. 2020
ur·ban over·class | \ ˈər-bən ˈō-vər-ˌklas \
: a higher social stratum : a segment of society having more influence, prestige and power — compare Rural Underclass
Cuomo’s diverting the supply of COVID-19 vaccine to NYC for “fairness and equity” while suppressing distribution to the state’s marginalized rural poor and elderly underlines the establishment of a Black Urban Overclass in policy making decisions. — Alexander Zebadiah, The Cornithican, “‘COVID’ Cuomo,” 25 Jan. 2021
Terms like “Urban Colonialism,” “Urban Colonization,” and “Urban Overclass” would be in common usage; if the victims were of any importance.
“Rural Social Justice” is an action without a Legislator; an idea without an ideology to call home.
The people of rural communities, and their cultural identity, is one subject that our “oh-so-correct” city-centric society provides for ridicule and denigration.
Just as our poverty, hopelessness and neglect is greater than that of a Media-coddled Urban Overclass: So is our capacity to demand change.
When I say “Rural Social Justice”
You say “There’s no such thing.”
Exactly.
“Cornithaca County” is here . . .
It’s about rural social justice, independent thought, and above all; the good of the people.
“Cornithaca County” applies the cherished counselings of compassion and human worth to the thoughts and actions of today’s inflexible Doctrine — and the result?
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