Originally published via Armageddon Prose Substack:
This week in the Armageddon Prose This Is America series, we take you to a nondescript gas station in some crumbling American city, hollowed out by de-industrialization and decades of chemical warfare via the food supply, fluoridated water, and pharmaceutical drugs.
The film starts out with what appears to be an altercation over a spot at the pump. One of the ladies involved issues some kind of threat “on my kids.” The other urban combatant in an SUV speeds off, hitting a bunch of other cars in the process, then flips on the roadway near a Jiffy Lube.
The passenger, a young lady, then emerges like a Phoenix from the wreckage and continues the verbal altercation with the gas station people.
I’ll be honest: despite having attended public school in Atlanta for nearly my entire education from first to twelfth grade, I have no idea what these people are saying throughout at least 50% of the video.
Maybe urban dialects have changed in the intervening years.
(For a taste of my “lived experience,” as the Social Justice™ leftists say, here’s a recent hors d’oeuvre from Rockdale County near Atlanta, not far at all from where I grew up next door in Dekalb County.)
Ben Bartee is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs.
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