The Glass Teat - Essays of Opinion On the Subject of Television
The Glass Teat - Essays of Opinion On the Subject of Television
“. . religion keeps them stupid, keeps them intractable, keeps them locked within their fears.
It became hideously apparent, watching First Tuesday. A Protestant woman in Ulster, probably a good woman, a woman who would never intentionally hurt anyone else...saying, “They had that new housing project, and all the Roman Catholics moved in, and—a Roman Catholic coal man told me this—they wanted the coal dumped in the bathtubs. Now it’s a slum. They’re dirty. All they want to do is drink and lay around. And as long as they can go confess, they think it’s all right. They breed like rabbits, you know . . .”
I could hear a White woman saying the same things about black men: “They move into a good neighborhood, into a new project, and the next thing you know, it’s a slum. They’ll live in filth and starve their kids, so long as they can drive a Cadillac. And they breed like rabbits, you know . . .”
I saw, on that program, militant students campaigning for civil and religious rights.
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