I don't know why but this reminded me of..."The day my mama socked it to the Tennessee Valley Authority".
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The TVA is super fucked from an environmental and civil liberties perspective, and has long been a folk-culture boogeyman for that reason.
Lots of poor working-class people were kicked off land that had been in the family for generations with zero recourse and very little compensation.
Shockingly, it also disproportionately affected black landowners!
It's shocking that the government could do such a thing. I'm shocked. Shook, even.