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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The Cruelty of Labor

Dear Thurgood Marshall:
Why did you have to have a life that required so many long words to explain? 
Why did you get yourself so famous that mean, cruel, horrible first grade teachers make poor unfortunate six-year-olds write such ridiculous words as "segregation" and "education"?
I mean, segregation was ridiculous, but having to spell and copy such a long word is almost as ridiculous.
Why did you have to do stuff at all?
Why couldn't you just have been a good person?  Then normal people could write, "Thurgood Marshall was born, and he lived a good life because he was a good person, and then he died, and his family was sad."  Then the hardest part would be spelling your name, and that's your mom's fault, not yours.
You were supposed to be against cruel and unusual punishment.  Can't you do something about this report I have to write about you?  I'm sure this is actionable.
Yours,
Theo

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