It echoes from the baseball sandlots of our national memory -- and from the lips of every member of every dispossessed group the pitcher disparaged in his infamous magazine interview.
Wisconsin and Minnesota are home to 100,000 Hmong, a dispossessed ethnic group of mountain people from Laos and Cambodia whom the C.I.A. enlisted to fight the North Vietnamese and their supporters, and were promised resettlement in the United States after the war.
4For example: "Municipal law certainly governs persons, and even specific groups of persons, and not only dispossessed or marginal groups: but it does so in a different manner than the criminal law or constitutional rights law.
"I am currently working on finding three charities to whom I can be useful and with whom I can build a good relationship, with a particular emphasis on groups helping dispossessed or abused or destitute children, groups helping children to reconnect with nature and groups seeking the restoration of damaged ecosystems.
Ross, and many group members who maintained their connection to the land, had been working with cattle since the group was dispossessed of its traditional way of life about a century ago.
Vulnerable tribal peoples are being removed by force from India's tiger reserves and forests; tribal groups such as the Ogiek and Sengwer, the San, Maasai and Baka are being forced out of forests and wildlife-rich plains in Africa; and from Thailand to Ecuador, Cameroon to Bangladesh, ethnic groups are being dispossessed in the name of protecting nature.
In these times of declining social mobility, and as the gap between the rich and the poor ever increases, dominant groups attempt to divide the dispossessed by pointing to scapegoats to blame.
These people may rail against the establishment parties on behalf of the dispossessed white working class but they are not social group D and E themselves, any more than Sir Oswald Mosley was – or Harriet Harman is.
Kliman also represents youth to Nathan's decrepitude: while Kliman is one of the "not-yets" with "no idea how quickly things turn out another way," Nathan belongs to the group of "no-longers," "losing faculties, losing control, shamefully dispossessed from themselves, marked by deprivation and experiencing the organic rebellion staged by the body against the elderly".
The dwarves' characteristics of being dispossessed of their ancient homeland at the Lonely Mountain, and living among other groups whilst retaining their own culture are all derived from the medieval image of Jews, whilst their warlike nature stems from accounts in the Hebrew Bible.
