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American Untouchables

From: Robert Karl Skoglund
Length: 00:00:55

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Transcript

When my father married my mother he was Marianne’s husband. And he stayed Marianne’s husband until he became Sonja’s father. For his entire life my father was a non-entity.

I thought I had done better than my father until today when I realized that I have fallen lower than Marianne’s husband or Sonja’s father. In fact, I have dropped as low as it is possible to drop in the caste system here in American today. There is a name for these American untouchables. You see us wearing name tags in most of the big stores in America today.

We are called associates.
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