ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.world · 5 months agoMy dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACPwww.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1186arrow-down19cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1177arrow-down1external-linkMy dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACPwww.motherjones.comZeroCool@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square25fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squares_s@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·edit-25 months agoPoverty in Kentucky and wider Appalachia is still a very real and very serious problem. It’s very hopeless feeling and was hit extremely hard by the opioid crisis. I’m sure it was bad 100 years ago, too–although alcoholism was usually the drug of choice back then. Lots of systematic suffering. Children growing up in the nightmares their parents created for them. But it’s not slavery, lol.
Poverty in Kentucky and wider Appalachia is still a very real and very serious problem.
It’s very hopeless feeling and was hit extremely hard by the opioid crisis.
I’m sure it was bad 100 years ago, too–although alcoholism was usually the drug of choice back then.
Lots of systematic suffering. Children growing up in the nightmares their parents created for them.
But it’s not slavery, lol.