SLSL Intro, Class/Race- "8 Mile"

tyro tortoise tyrotortoise at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 10 11:01:04 CST 2002


--- Mutualcode at aol.com wrote:

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Nice. Enjoyed that. 


> 
> In that regard, it is intresting to note that TSI
> has almost nothing
> to do with Class.


Don't want to jump ahead but I can't agree with this. 
The boys name their friend Carl Barrington. They take
the name Carl from Mr. McAfee (race). What about the
name Barrington (class)? They name their organization
after Spartacus. The class struggle in that film is
what inspires Grover. And, we have political and class
struggles mentioned by the narrator, we have Fisk,
Gould, Blaine, Twain, Baffy, etc. Can't remember but
maybe the date 1st May, 1916 (Spartacus) is in there
too. 

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