Baranyai: Ford's crassness sign of his indifference to average Ontarians

Baranyai: Ford's crassness sign of his indifference to average Ontarians

In the mid-‘80s, Bruce Hornsby wrote an unlikely hit: a jazz piano anthem about systems of oppression called  The Way It Is. The song begins with a man in a suit passing a welfare recipient when, “just for fun he says, ‘Get a job.’” The lyric’s casual cruelty resonated. The song climbed all the way to No. 1, and has been sampled by dozens of artists, from Snoop Dogg to The Script.