This Appalachia Life: My Mother Wasn't Trash

[mountain grammy]

13. I recommend this post, but don't agree some of his conclusions.

It's heartbreakingly honest, and any of us who've lived on the margins know the exploitation and lack of services that exist for the poor. But they can and do fight back. The UMW and Mother Jones and many nameless miners fought for humane condidtions and mine safety.

I grew up poor, wtih plenty of others in my same situation, but people can be poor and informed all at the same time. I know the bubble, I have relatives in Texas and elsewhere who succumb to the relentless propaganda, and a few who haven't. But, at what point do you finally say, stop hating your fellow man and work for the good of all? Maybe when the preacher says it?