Eat Your Arugula and Shut Up

I was in the car quite a bit today and I was able to catch about ten minutes of the Rush Limbaugh Show and about ten minutes of the Sean Hannity Show. What I learned is that nothing enrages conservatives more than public officials suggesting that people eat arugula. I also learned that Sean Hannity cannot conceive of a place anywhere in America where there are no grocery stores. Nor can he conceive of a grocery store that has such a sorry selection of produce that no one would want to eat it. So, for him, everyone has an equal opportunity to eat a healthy diet. Let me make one thing clear. I lived for five years in neighborhoods of Philadelphia that had no grocery stores. We had what we called “corner stores.” These stores had basic staples like eggs, milk, and bread. They usually sold some cold cuts of very uneven quality. But, mostly, they sold total crap. The only fruit you would ever see was bananas. And there were no vegetables of any kind, except maybe in a can. I had to get in a car to go to the type of grocery store most people think of as grocery stores. That’s the reality for most people living in our inner cities. The Obamas understand this because they’ve lived it.