But it’s a lie
In Moore’s new interview, which Lee has discussed here, the old lie comes up again.
What lie, you might ask? Well, the one where Moore pretends that his life was shaped by living in Flint. Except he was born and raised in Davison, a far more wealthy suburb of Flint.
The Man from Flint
I read this piece in the Observer a couple weeks ago attacking me. Their class analysis is that because I’ve done well now and live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, somehow that means that I’m not from the working class. And they don’t understand what that means, being from the working class. It’s not about what you’re earning now, or what you’re buying now. It’s about how you’re wired. And, yes, there are people who forget where they’re from when they’re doing well and they close the door behind them so that no one else can get through. I have never had that feeling, and I don’t know if it’s the way I was raised, but as I have incrementally done better financially, I feel only more of a burden and responsibility. It’s just my own internal pressure. I sat there in the Eighties and I struggled with everyone else. I was on unemployment three different times, some $90 a week. I never earned more than $15,000 a year, even when working. But I liked my life and it was all good and I wasn’t starving, clearly…. I just saw too many lives destroyed by the decisions General Motors made at a time they were posting record profits, profits that were made by those people who worked in those factories, and it was like, “See you later, thanks for helping us become the world’s largest corporation. Fuck off.” And I will carry that with me to my dying day, That will never leave me. This movie can do $100 million at the box-office, my next book can sell 10 million copies - and it will never leave me. In fact the more the people respond to it, the more I’m convinced I have to stay on that track.
What a crock of shit. You’re from Davison, Mike, and it’s time you started telling the truth. Upper middle class, management, WHITE Davison. You should be ashamed of yourself, and Flint should be ashamed of you for using them as pawns in your get-rich plans. Stop pretending, Mike. You talk of shame. But you don’t see to have any shame in pretending that living in Flint molded your young life.
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