9 aInstead, they saw you as racist killers,
10 bAnd dirty useless animals,
11 cAnd the perfect example of everything that was worst in the whole species,
12 And then, because they had forgotten everything else too, they forgot that anyone had ever been ddifferent,
13 And decided that everybody in the whole wide world was really just a dirty useless racist killer,
14 Just like you,
15 Them included.
CHAPTER 241 This is a catastrophe for the Kensingtonians,
2 Because you needed them too,
3 And you knew that a lot of them were different,
4 And you counted on it,
5 eBecause a lot of you had made it out of Kensington over the years,
6 And so you knew, deep down, that there were other ways to live,
7 And that it was good there were other kinds of people besides Kensingtonians,
8 Because there have to be fdoctors,
9 And gengineers,
10 And hexecutives,
11 And the occasional igreat statesman,
12 Not to mention a whole bunch of people who really want to be responsible and go to work every day and not cause trouble on every street comer,
13 And a whole bunch of other things like that,
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14 Because when you drove your jpickup truck over the Ben Franklin Bridge,
15 You really did kind of appreciate the fact that the man in charge of building it probably wasn't a Kensingtonian,
16 Didn't you?
CHAPTER 251 And that's why most of you have always really kind of loved your kcountry,
2 No matter what,
3 lEven though the country was chock-full of Mainliners and Broad Streeters and Boulevardiers and Pennsylvanians and Hillites and Hallites and Fishites and Brewers and Manayunkians and Richmondites and Mount Airians and Germantonians and Swarthmorons and Haverfordians and Drexelites and Downtowners and Southians and millions of others who weren't Kensingtonians at all,
4 mBut they were Americans,
5 And they were doing their part,
6 Just like you,
7 Even if they were a little short on guts,
8 And spent too much time talking about things when the time for talking was done,
9 nAnd even if you all told nasty jokes about each other and didn't want to marry each other or eat with each other,
10 Especially if somebody told you you had to,
11 oBecause it's never been a good idea for anyone anywhere to tell a Kensingtonian what he can or can't do,
12 Period.
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