Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers in charge of administering many of the anti-poverty programs of the time. Wolfe presents the office as corrupt, continually gamed by hustlers diverting cash into their own pockets. The essay centers on the irony of these failed programs fortifying not the diets but the resentment and contempt of the Black, Chicano, Filipino, Chinese, Indian, and Samoan communities of San Francisco. Wolfe describes hapless bureaucrats (the Flak Catchers) whose function was reduced to taking abuse, or "mau-mauing" (in reference to the intimidation tactics employed in Kenya's anti-colonial Mau Mau Uprising) from intimidating young Blacks and Samoans, who are seen as reveling
Mau-Mau (card game) Mau-Mau (card game) Mau-Mau is a card game for 2 to 5 players that is popular in Germany, Austria, South Tyrol, the United States, Brazil, Poland, and the Netherlands. Mau-Mau is a member of the larger Crazy Eights or shedding family, to which e.g. the proprietary card games of Uno and Flaps belong. However Mau-Mau is played with standard French or German-suited playing cards. Rules for Mau have existed at least since the 1930s. The game originated in Germany. The aim is to be first to get rid of all of one's cards. Most of the time, the winner will