[HN Gopher] Johnny Cash - Strawberry Cake
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       Johnny Cash - Strawberry Cake
        
       Author : MrJagil
       Score  : 67 points
       Date   : 2024-05-29 06:34 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | dkga wrote:
       | Amazing story! I'm a Johnny Cash fan and didn't know this before.
       | 
       | I just wonder if the "bum" wasn't some modern version of
       | Diogenes...
        
         | wolfhumble wrote:
         | You would hope . . .
         | 
         | Reminds me of this lady running down the metro hallway trying
         | to catch a train that was coming closer. I could tell she was
         | on drugs and maybe living on the street.
         | 
         | As she was heading for the train now almost stopping at the
         | station, she saw a man lying lifeless on a bench by the wall.
         | She quickly ran over to him, shook his shoulder a little and
         | asked if he was okay. As he grunted some sort of "yes", she
         | then ran straight to the metro train. She just made it inside
         | before the door closed behind her and the train left the
         | station.
         | 
         | Of all the people on the station that day, she was the only one
         | who cared about the man lying lifeless on the bench. She opened
         | my eyes that day and since then I have been - mostly - able to
         | follow her example . . .
        
           | mythhabit wrote:
           | It's unfortunately often people that recover from some
           | serious traumatic experiences, that are the most emphatic.
           | They know what it is like to be completely lost with no one
           | to help.
           | 
           | Children are too, but somewhere along growing up, many
           | unlearn that.
        
       | noduerme wrote:
       | I quit. On my best day I'll never write a song like Johnny Cash
       | on his worst.
        
       | wumms wrote:
       | > The photo is from the back of Johnny's album
       | 
       | It is not - from the same series though.
        
         | jjulius wrote:
         | I mean, it's damn near the exact same photo - so similar that I
         | originally responded correcting you. Seems like an easy, and
         | innocuous, thing to confuse.
        
           | wumms wrote:
           | You're absolutely right! I'm curious if more photos from the
           | same series exist. I posted a comment on the site asking for
           | more information about the collection where the author found
           | the photo. The comment is not online yet. The post is from
           | 2015, but the author seems to be active.
        
       | eevilspock wrote:
       | Oh that strawberry cake         Oh that strawberry cake
       | Out in California them berries were grown         And into this
       | city them berries were flown         For making that strawberry
       | cake*             Then I thought of Oxnard, just north of LA
       | Where I picked strawberries for many a day         Hard work with
       | no future for the harvest was done        And I headed eastward
       | a-travelin' by thumb         And nobody wanted me here in this
       | town         I felt like a stray dog they all kick around
       | Them berries reminded me of my bad breaks         I'm hungry and
       | I want that strawberry cake*
       | 
       | We enjoy our strawberry cake, all the fresh and organic produce
       | we eat, at an amazingly low price if we are honest, yet we don't
       | fight for the well-being and rights of the people who work the
       | fields, so-called illegal aliens, who are paid slave wages, who
       | have no health care, whose citizenship status leaves them even
       | more vulnerable to exploitation than others on the bottom of
       | America's caste system.
       | 
       |  _"Here am I, and there he is, but for the grace of God I'd be
       | out there."_
       | 
       | ~ Johnny Cash, in the OP video
       | 
       | I don't use Twitter (now X *eye roll*) anymore, but I used to try
       | and get friends to follow the United Farm Workers. They post a
       | lot of videos of workers in the field, both beautiful and
       | heartbreaking. Here are a few posts:
       | 
       |  _Indiana strawberry harvester, age 7._
       | 
       | ~ https://twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1418834775280861192
       | 
       |  _Hundreds of thousands of farm workers in the United States are
       | children._
       | 
       | ~ https://twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1418836903672094725 (see
       | the thread)
       | 
       |  _Jose works in the Salinas area cutting strawberries. He shares,
       | "I have been working in the CA fields for 21 years and in those
       | 21 years I have not been able to see my parents again because I
       | don't have legal status."_
       | 
       | ~ https://twitter.com/woodlandalyssa/status/141781224667613184...
        
         | eliaspro wrote:
         | UFW are now active in the Fediverse as well:
         | https://union.place/@ufwupdates
        
           | eevilspock wrote:
           | Thank you!
        
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