Stupid White Men

Who doesn’t know about Michael Moore, the guy from Michigan where another rebel activist Rosa Parks dwells?
Recently, my editor flung his all time famous book Stupid White Men at me. Guess what, it was no less than a fun reading it. His piercing humor makes you rolling with laughter. The book caused hullabaloo around America. Though initially, the publishers advised to pulp the books printed. It was considered too dangerous and homeland-threatening. However, soon the book went up to No.1 New York Times Bestseller and thanks to Penguin, they published the paper back version too.

Mike leashes out against the White men. He is indignant at a variety of things; the Corporate America, the commercialization of education system, the black racists, the pretentious hoodwinking democrats and stings at the male sexist. The first chapter relates to the Bush sham of rigging the elections. According to him, the democrat supporters were put behind the bars in large numbers and polls counting were not even started when Bush was declared the President by the Fox news. Other channels followed suit. This must have sent chill down the Republican’s spine especially when he questions Bush about his education and discloses his family felonies.

Kill Whitey was super humorous. He recounts all his unpleasant experiences in life and says that a strange but an unmistakable pattern emerges in which every cruel act has a Caucasian face attached to it. With his biting satire, he recalled that all the dangerous things, be it H-bomb, Holocaust, PVC, PBC all have whitey in it. He also explained the response he got from his documentary Roger&Me in which he showed a woman clubbing a rabbit to sell off the meat. The video was R-rated because it was considered too violent. Teachers called him up and told they have to omit that part because it is too violent for children. Everyone shed tears for the cute little bunny. However, just two minutes later in the same video is a scene of black man being shot by a police officer. But strange, nobody feels against this cruelty. This seems familiar to us as well where we have also accepted the suffering of poor as usual, like in America where people think killing or imprisonment of a black guy is a standard operating procedure.

The People’s Prayer is a good and vicious prank to make the high ups think of what goes on actually with the people who are at the receiving end of the idiotic laws their government legislated. He prays to God that every member of the House of Representatives be condemned to a life of flipping burgers and dodging bill collectors. He pleads sincerely that may Jack Welch swim the Hudson he has polluted. Once they are in the same mess the other people are languishing in, will they realize the suffering and correct it. So all say, Amen!

The chapter on Democrats is outstanding. It must be painful to all those who foolishly stick their hopes at those liberals. He strikes at Bill Clinton-Al Gore duo at this time, though he says son-of-a-Bush is still worse. Okay, but Bush followed most of the policies coined by Clinton. The arsenic seeping in drinking water streams by the industries started in his time, but he kept the public in dark about it. So, whether it’s the Democrats or Republicans, it’s the same thing forced down your throat. The government doesn’t listen to people; they only nod at the financially powerful people who brought them to power.

However, only carping about the crooked ways is not Mike’s strategy. At the end of each chapter, he calls people to counteraction, with few stupid as well as radical and workable ideas. For all those who want to learn about the similar crooked governments with the high ups having the same devil-may-care attitude as ours, read it, and let’s put some of his ideas to practice in our extreme scenario! Peace!