you all talk about Black people,now what about your own.
Ill admit, despite having grown up in an area with lots of impoverished white folks, even I didnt realize the depths of the issues in Appalachia. Children out-of-wedlock, awful graduation rates, incest, generational curses, excessive prescription drug abuse, abysmal heath statistics, rampant crime, broken families, and joblessness abound. If you closed your eyes, youd swear they were talking about Detroit. Its all packaged together in a pretty intriguing (albeit depressing) 60 minutes.
The thing that sorta pisses you off is how the one hour story is told. ABCs Diane Sawyer, a Kentuckian (from Louisville, not the hills) herself, tells a well-rendered story of the invisible residents of her homestate with the sort of compassion and restraint seldom afforded when the media depicts poor minorities.
Ill admit, despite having grown up in an area with lots of impoverished white folks, even I didnt realize the depths of the issues in Appalachia. Children out-of-wedlock, awful graduation rates, incest, generational curses, excessive prescription drug abuse, abysmal heath statistics, rampant crime, broken families, and joblessness abound. If you closed your eyes, youd swear they were talking about Detroit. Its all packaged together in a pretty intriguing (albeit depressing) 60 minutes.
The thing that sorta pisses you off is how the one hour story is told. ABCs Diane Sawyer, a Kentuckian (from Louisville, not the hills) herself, tells a well-rendered story of the invisible residents of her homestate with the sort of compassion and restraint seldom afforded when the media depicts poor minorities.