tv Witness Hillbilly Al Jazeera June 22, 2022 11:00pm-12:00am AST
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your favorite app still just sat through it and tapped on a new app from out is even new at you can give it ah, a new parker. in london, the top stories on al jazeera, at least 1000 people have been killed in the deadliest earthquake to hit afghanistan in 20 years. about 1500 people have been injured and hundreds of homes destroyed. the taliban has called for international assistance in the search for survivors. it's feared hundreds are still trapped in the rubble capture lopez, hardy, and reports. oh burien. there dealt with other families in afghanistan's burmal district. prepare the final resting place for their loved ones. more than a 1000 people having killed by a devastating earthquake the worst to hit the country in 20 years. the damage is
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extensive. for many de la, so is immeasurable. ye be god and milk wouldn't be much poet. oh, it has destroyed the houses of our neighbors. when we arrived, there were many dead and wounded man. they sent us to the hospital go and i also saw many dead bodies. i knock nearby desperate family is user hands on anything they can find to search for survivors. delivering aid to affected areas is challenging. we are facing some difficulties because some unseasonal rain in the last few days and we know already that there are landslides that are blocking some roads that be certainly going to hamper efforts. hundreds of people are injured in particular province, access to hospitals and medicine is limited. people in this remote region near the border with pakistan are still struggling to recover from the war in afghanistan.
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and now another tragedy. most agencies in international support organizations pulled out of afghanistan when the taliban to control them all this last year. and economic crisis was already fueling a humanitarian catastrophe. statistics by various agencies suggested over and nearly 60 percent of the country was people who are suffering from poverty before we came to power. susanna compounded the difficulties, and that is mainly due to the sanctions and the assa freeze. ah, andy jealous behavior off the international communities while the how the extent of the damage is yet to be known. it's already clear that the recovery will take, hears katia, locus of the young al jazeera, at least 20 people have been killed in ukraine, 2nd largest city. hark eve, as russian forces escalate their attacks their, the strikes over the past 2 days have been the worse for weeks. normal life had
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been returning to the region after ukraine push russian forces back from her cave in a counter offensive last month. officials say the renew the tags are aimed at forcing ukrainian troops to pull out from the east. they warned that russia is now targeting, hark, heave. as a did mary. apple, swathes of southeast asia under water, as floods devastate parts of china, bangladesh and india. about 4000000 people are believe to be stranded in bangladesh, while another 4000000 people have been affected in india's asam state. in china, 4 provinces or inundated roads have collapsed in some cities and lance lives of blot. others, turkey and saudi arabia, se they're determined to start a new period of co operation after a visit to ankara by the saudi kingdoms, de facto rule him is the 1st time crown prince mohammed been salman has been to turkey since the 2018 murder of jealous yamaha shoji, he was killed and allegedly dismembered in the saudi consulate. in istanbul,
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us intelligence officials say the crown prince ordered the killing. ma'am, had been salman and turkish president, red subtype ergo, are said to have disgust improving ease of trade between the 2 nations and saudi investment in turkish start ups ah, violent anti government protests are continuing in ecuador, capital, quito. demonstrations have been taking place for 10 days. at least 2 people who've been killed and official say, 18 police officers are missing after and tack in the eastern amazon region protested or demanding lower fuel prices and say, president gear my last i was not listening to their concerns that i was finding of course, to resign of expanded a state of emergency to deal with the unrest. those are the headlines to stay with us because witness is next. ah
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this is where we're owning our hillbilly. we're taking pride in the way we look down to leave the really nice lane. they help the program with what is a hillbilly? let me know you with modern time. this is what we're calling arguably here. i think i can better leg. oh, hi job. well, you're left a live one. i'm not those madman, madame dictum bag. whack, whack my interview, go talk about the book and i was going on on it to amber yo cole. so brian doing about with her to marry. you was my the ballot mail. you're going to get to know me a lot better to all of these are represent the things that we fear is america a did this that is have lead only. wow.
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i grew up in appalachia watching my grandfather like he ha, oh, in the beverly hillbillies. ah, i hated the shows growing up. * gonna go with granite. you can't. you are ma'am. oh much there's a long history of stereotyping that has plagued the appalachian region. yeah. now the dumb trav voters really are the dumb trombone. she is the certainly all sound as tacky and as stupid as mind blowing. li, ignorant as he does, i in the run up to the 2016 presidential election. i was making a film about portrayals of appalachian people and pop culture. news coverage about the region exploded. and suddenly,
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every one was talking about the great divide. blue versus red, urban versus rural and one region. my hometown region was singled out as the reason for trump's rise. my hometown is kemper kentucky, right in the heart of the appalachian coalfields. though when most people hear my accent, they assume i'm from the south. appalachian in the region where the history and culture that is complicated and all sound the term hillbilly was born here. and more recently the idea of the heart of trump country ah, ah ah, ah, this is me during the election. this was my facebook page.
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ah this is my granny shelby ah, around the time of the election. this was her facebook page. ah, donald trump grabbing me, i just can't believe my grandmother posted this on my wall. i may be the only person from kimber, kentucky, and los angeles. almost everyone i know hear, despises trump, but back home the perspective is quite different. the 2016 election may painfully clear the disdain that urban liberals have towards so much of rural america, particularly appalachian i relate to both worlds. as a progressive feminist and filmmaker, i was curious to visit my hometown during his device of political moment. her
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we are on our way to meet house holler, which is where i grew up, and where i lived until i was 18 years old. when i was accepted to the university of kentucky and i packed up u haul and moved out in. this is me when i was 9. i won the spelling bee that year. i was a member of the speech and drama team. i was on the homecoming court. i graduated at the head of my class. there is a photograph from the day i moved out. i had no idea when i was standing in that driveway. what i was about to experience moving from rural kentucky to urban
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kentucky was the greatest culture shock of my life. people identified me as someone from the mountain. the reaction to the way i talked or insulting and made me feel silent. i moved to los angeles years later and to this day, people fill out. where did you get that accent? where are you from? oh my goodness gracious. this is me taller and my childhood home right before us. we moved out of that house in 1998. is that a rebel flag right there in the middle? yeah, this was my bedroom up here. my dad did all this bridge work. for the record. this flagpole was not here when we lived here and there certainly was no
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confederate flag flying high on our property. my mom was a nurse and my dad worked in the coal mines until he got laid off. he became a brick mason. he once said to me that people would look at him and my mom as embodying the american dream. they went from living in a single wide trailer to building their dream home. i felt fortunate as a child for most people in my hometown at that time there were basically 2 job opportunities. cole and wal mart. i work at walmart. ah, it gets hard times out here. and it gets rough. best during the winter when it's no one, no, no landing him. you know me and the best way you can just try to make ends made back in the hills of floyd county,
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kentucky. you will find some of the forest places in america. one road out, lloyd county, i'm going that's right. next door to pike county where i educational is the only way out. when i was 9 years old, i saw this 48 hours news program which made sweeping generalizations about people from my region. like we were all to be pitied. so this is your room. i was in a little crowded. mia that show made me feel shame for being from eastern kentucky during the war on poverty in the 60s. the federal government spent more than $3000000.00 to build highways, connecting the appalachian hills to the rest of america. but a university of kentucky study found that many residents can't even afford the gas . it would take to get away every day struggle. struggle for the things many people take for granted that tv news program had a lasting impact on me. it was the 1st time i saw my community portrayed of poor white trash, a legacy that goes way back ration to they hear and
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now declares unconditional war on poverty in america. but johnson took to the roots of appalachian property, the morgan county kentucky. the war on poverty is complicated while it helps some people by establishing social welfare programs like food stamps and medicaid. it led to an influx of volunteers and journalists from around the world and their efforts were confusing and troubling to some like my dad and his 2 sisters who were children at the time living in eastern kentucky was one day a school somebody came in with a truck and gave a every student, they are a pair of shoes. just half the gym was full of ugly shoot. and that's what the government, i guess, thought we needed. and it was an interesting to have people coming in to look at this area. but it became very evident that it's,
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it was critical and we did that on the porch and we weren't barefoot. that was just what we did. so when i see the film and there is a depiction of suppor appalachian mountain people, and it really irritates me because i didn't see us is that where my granny shelby live. a you, i'm good. i'm just putting this my phone on me and then i'm gonna give you her. hi baby. it's good to see. oh, it's great sweet. you granny, this, let's click that on your bell so that it sounds, i don't know if bill ashley ha, hi. hello. you know, i'm gonna greet you get right to let you made her brand. alright.
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granny. so see perfect. cuz otherwise this roosters are competing rooster here, bird. so this 11 penny, tony. brewster touching you to actually sell me on you 1011 song. oh what you find me right angela. you sent all stager some talking. i'm not kidding. bershard trump cap. he's been wearing trunk shirt truck cap, which we all have a a so he went with us to the rally. you're going to look back at this election. i'd say this is by far the most important vote that you've ever chose for anyone at any time because it was unfathomable to me, the trunk could be hillary. i just could not understand why my family, who voted for brock obama supported him. what is it about donald trump that makes you want him to be the 45th president of the states?
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well, the man knows how to make money. knowing this has got over $10000000.00. he has know how to make money. so i believe you could actually bring the jobs back and create jobs. i'm not saying probably the same stopped. it should have been say the locker room talk, but aubriana, which i've not met anybody who hasn't done something similar to that. and they just blow it out of proportion. did you all expect to be this enthusiastic about the election because it's been very intriguing to see some of these posts that had been going around. i was a democrat on my law. and then primary i went and changed to republican just so i could vote for trump during the caucus here for a mountainous about that for i'm from really had and want to have our back before
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isn't just the same old thing empty promises. yeah. now, you know, they're just too much stuff on hillary, you know, just all the investigations and stuff like that. so what we had to loose vote trop, reachable for. i voted for from o, shang god, ash i did you all. water was getting him sour. looks all i know i did full disclosure. i did a vote by mail application. i did the ballot who's i must not, not a virtue you girls just rap. i should have job. sad them parent dion, you bet. and later burke and you'd be lot, lot smarter. thought okay, i appreciate you. are we still a? yeah, he did that. i even if it did lead to me becoming a radical progressive,
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we still love you no matter what. oh yeah we did. you need me god about that. ah, this is interesting. this is a story that the city paper did in like saying 10. i think the question wise, where do you see yourself in 10 years? i would have been 18 here. and i said, angela. and that's what happened. my family has lived in eastern kentucky for 6 generations. he was a co minor, my grandparents on both sides, worked in the coal industry. you were probably 6 right months old. my whole life i was told to get out. i never questioned why not want to serve our country, but people just rode. de leon talked over me and like i wasn't even there,
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they sang just because i grew up in a city and they talk with more pronounced words. especially when i no fancy went after certain california. that was the worst. i was looking for the the brotherhood under preop. ah, do you think that was all somehow related to their stereotypes of mountain people or to yes, yes, will they? they still think northerners always did that. they'd always think that they're above it. bailey, hillary said that we were all deplorable. according to her were all nothing. were a bunch of back woods, people that are scum under her feet. you could put half of trump supporters into
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what i call the basket of deplorable right. people in california and all these other sites look at the hillbillies like lot may they have a certain perception of us because whatever they see on t b. well, bobby, i empathize when i was that youngster at 18 years old going from the holler to the big city, lexington kentucky. that's how i felt, you know, them, i was a journalism student. you know, journalists are supposed to speak with a midwestern accent, which is meant to be no accent so that you can pick up and move. and it basically just like sterilized as any kind of culture or regional uniqueness. that might be. and i was told you've got to speak correctly, which man i was b incorrectly. and of course, i believed it like, well, the teachers, the professionals, you know, i was working for the m p r affiliate i worked at the city newspaper of the editor student paper. i was the edwards t v stable energy transfer. you were there?
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what you were all right. ah, i would have never hurt him any more than i'd heard it june, bug nice eggs that sound like bars. got you got this kind of like florida panhandle . thing going where's what you really want is more of a savannah? actually i don't, i don't book on don't ever go yeah, arkansas kind of live. it pulls by the constant market. south, alabama. yep. you mailed that real. why they get a, have st. tom and again from these media portrayals is that it produces shame and self hatred. i mean our with a lot of young people who don't want people to know where they are from. they want to change the way they speak. they want to escape the region as soon as possible because they're ashamed of it. as somebody who grew up in the region, i have always felt several layers of being. the other,
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always discouraged is feel like a perpetual immigrant because we've been here so long. i mean, my family has been an avalanche for 8 generations to some extent were still treated like immigrants were treated like we're from another country. when we go out into the rest of the united states, such a strange phenomenon, people speak slowly to us and expect that we're not gonna, you know, get common references, a woman what's asked me if i knew johnny carson was, you know, because i was from appalachian she didn't like we had tv or nobody was literate. apalachee was a construction, it was a social and cultural invention. for example, iowa is a construction to the difference between iowa and apalachee is you know, when you're in iowa because there's a sign there that says, welcome to iowa. there's no such sign with appalachian everywhere in the world.
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there are half the latches and therefore everywhere you go, there are hillbillies. if we think of the hillbilly as sort of an outcast group, this your 1st trip to new york, i collected an article in which the official chinese news agency criticized a group of chinese people living far away from big gain. as the equivalent of hillbillies. everybody has an appalachian everybody has somebody that they can feel superior to. we all do bad. why the hillbilly is the image of a guy with a corn cob. i remote ignorant, barefoot, lazy, and so has really been a way of legitimated the dispossession of the mountains. it's a region of people who are deprived not part of the american dream. they don't
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really deserve the kind of resources. and welf lie beneath the land of appalachian particularly coal. it's only a region of trash, so why not trash it in the flooded valley, so the appalachians about 20 people are dead. 20000. they've been moved out and helicopters in row boats to blame for the flash. blending is being placed on extreme erosion upside cooperation. strip mining, enlarge tree clearing that allow the one to cascade in rivers with great speed. there were immediate promises of temporary housing from the federal government, but no trailers have arrived yet. nobody gave us anything we weren't. but then we do meet hale initially when we do need him. why do we need to go like if we can't get him? the coal industry created the towns we grew up in. it was the centerpiece of life and the livelihood and identity of so many folks in my home town,
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while it sustained their families. it ravaged the land without. you have very little if anything in our area like this area should be very happy, let corporation such as ours, us steel and others are here. for decades, all companies came to where we grew up and took out truck load after truckload of coal. the mining calls floods and destroyed home and left our creeks orange lifeless. hey brandy, you got anything to play? you know, going, going may have got any news media, my, my granny. i remember he's massive plus, you know, plus $77.00 floods. the took home floods that, you know, people had to raise their houses and they suffered deeply from that and didn't get support from the government. like migrating i remember her whole life was fighting
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for support and stuff. this is a flood plain here. what we want is for fema the come in and help us. i mean people, this is, this is showing it's lower than the shape. i don't care about people that live down here in these areas. feel water is not a real support. it was around, but i would call the newspaper and get them to come over and take pictures. the government is supposed to be of for bad people, but that is the way the politician when they get an office they know who's take care of because they're the ones take care of them. i certainly didn't agree with my grand and politics, but i knew she had a long list of resentments against the government, which helped me understand her point of view. you know the miners to
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a certain you're so down and they've been treated so badly that they haven't been voted. they haven't been going out and voting like they can. and that includes members of their family that have left the mining business. let members of the family they've left home. i think at that time, if somebody would have asked her, would you ever bow for someone who would make a comment that he freely would grab one on a. i think she'll have a very different answer at that time. in her life good little drug dealing shifted to places beyond the reach of the many people in the afghan government way involved in the drug trade. gorilla was in columbia and to mexico, where the called tales have been responsible for a muscle, a spiral of violence. the final episode of drug trafficking politics. our
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territories on al jazeera who got cavity with me getting a lot down ideals, the french republic, islam for a claim. but just what is modern, france in a 4 part series, but big picture takes an in depth look. the trouble with france episode one on al jazeera, which is the right, is here to report on the people often ignored, but who must be heard. how many other channels can you say will take the time and put extensive thought into reporting from under reported areas? of course we cover major global events, but our passion lives and making sure that you're hearing the stories from people in places like how is fine with yemen, the south region,
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and so many other we go to them, you make the effort, we care, we strength lu i'm new banker in london with the top stories on al jazeera sh. estie work is in eastern afghanistan, a scrambling to reach survivors of the deadliest earthquake and decades struck the remote practica region. at least 1000 people have been killed and another 1500 people injured. the taliban has called for international assistance and the search for survivors. statistics by various agencies suggested over nearly 60 percent of the country was people who are suffering from poverty before we came to power. so it is an a compound and the difficulties and that is mainly due to the sanctions and the asset freeze. and the challenge behavior of the international communities.
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at least 20 people have been killed in ukraine, 2nd largest city hockey. as russian forces escalate their attacks that the strikes over the last 2 days have been the worse for weeks. normal life had been returning to the region of ukraine, push russian forces back from holl keith and a counter offensive. last month. officials say the renewed attacks are aimed at forcing ukrainian troops to pull out from the east swathes of south east asia under water as floods devastate parts of china, bangladesh and india. round 4000000 people are believed to be stranded in bangladesh, while another 4000000 people have been affected in india's asam state. in china, 4 provinces are inundated roads have collapsed in some cities, and landslides have blocked. others ah, violent anti government protests are continuing an equitable capital quito
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demonstrations have been taking place for 10 days. at least 2 people have been killed and officials say 18 police officers are missing after an attack on a police station in a city in the east, an amazon region protested that demanding lower fuel prices and say president guillermo lasso is not listening to their concerns. turkey and saudi arabia say they're determined to start a new period of corporation after a visit from the saudi kingdoms de facto ruler to ankara is the 1st time crown prince ma hm had been summon, has been to turkey since the 2018 murder of journalist yamaha shoji they was killed and allegedly dismembered, and the saudi consulate, their stumble. us intelligence officials say the crown prince ordered the killing. those are the headlines to stay with us because that witness continues next day with us here announces era. ah, you oh i see. and
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listen to the story. nora laid to the business harland county usaa. i saw this movie when i was 19 arabic, glad on the picket lab, and will wender contract if they allowed stand it. it was the 1st time i remember seeing the people of eastern kentucky represented dignity on film. oh, this film inspired me to make documentaries. that was like an aha moment. i mean, i grew up in a rural place in public education and it wasn't, you know, a space of like radical thought or ideas. and i think that, that very much set the tone for me and for the direction of my life. and i was interested in telling stories of marginalized and vulnerable people because i grew up in a place where a lot of people are marginalized and a lot of people are vulnerable. i mean, it's really incredible the way that media works and how the stories can get told
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in the immediate aftermath of the civil war. the local color writing presented appalachia as a sort of quirky and quaint peoples. but as industrialists become interested in the region for minerals, for lumber, for coal, and the people that were living there could also be seen as a kind of potential threat or at least a interference with their economic plans. and so a new conception emerges of them as a dangerous and threatening people who might threaten civilization itself or not just talking about hillbillies. i eat people who live in the mountains for talking about poor people who live in the mountains. they're the ones who are going to cut your throat regional and national newspapers promote them out and people as dangerous and threatening if they stand in the way of progress. oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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no. you can still hear that. that piece of music. and so you'll lock the car doors just in case the car were to break down. hey john leo, for the layout lane. in the liver answer there is this horrifying rain. oh, yeah. now, if you hear that lick on the banjo, it brings up this image of right ah, in deliverance, there is an acknowledgement at the beginning. the film with the image is mountain being blown up. an acknowledgment of the cities exploitation of the rural gall rate . this whole, god damn landscaper rate o louis, my extreme point of view streaming. are you nervous the a little bit? are you nervous? programmed a lot. i've always been that way. this
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is used to be my classroom. we had to direct look for acres. and somehow i come in our class, got to look at it to us out. i wasn't the same, the same person that i was when i put that make up head market and it, and it kind of, ah, i think one of the things that makes deliverance work on lots of levels is that billy's character and my character were able to sort of connect having that seen work really put this film on a different level. which was the break of my life. i guess that's probably one of the great moments ever problems. great. is there anyone out there who hasn't seen the motion picture delivers us? seen a large number of times. well there is a moment there when he plays the banjo with a retarded boy,
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and they suddenly discover each other. and ronnie plays a guitar and they do dueling banjos. and i guess probably one of the most electric moments on the screen, i get goose pimples. just thinking about it. it was nominated for academy award like a awards presentation. and it's nearly always listed in the top 15 or 30 of the best films of all time, ged. ah, in how much money did you make for your role and deliberate and they'd never been. mm. i wish i would, could be an actor. i just left to go to los angeles.
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that's my doing. i'm hope to now get i just want to happen in billy was only in the 4th grade when the directors came to his school. he had no idea how the movie would be used or that he would become a symbol for the entire region. deliverance for billy hope and his hendrick, me when i 1st seen the movie, i didn't know that part was going to be in there. you know, i thought to myself, the people were going to see that movie is going to fight man. it destroys roping county. ah
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ah, sports bar that at the white trash theme. scott, the rest of that caution to me is taking someone else's culture and exploiting. you know, and using it for your profit, there's a lot of ironic redneck she and i think it only bothers the in the same way. the white people pretending they're black through adopting hip hop culture dos. it's not your experience with along with the same day when it's called the white trash party. oh my god, i thought maybe the biscuit. so anyway, this normally fans with when you get your ideas about what, what trash looks like. wow. i, i see a lot of imagery on the internet. i see what are they called memes are means
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internet media. somebody will put up a picture of like, torn jeans on here with a local white trash. you know, port mainly of char turned into, you know, drinking glass, you know, my trash and i saw a lot of deliverance when i was kid. ah, if a new hipster like what? wrestling no like white trash like white hair. yeah, absolutely. in a lot of it's through that or maybe dressing like this. don't even know where apalachee is or understand any of the issues about it. oh, you poor west virginians still have to like my call to get your electricity. when like 14 percent of the power of new york city comes from west virginia cole, these hipsters, these millennials are going to be the people running our country. and do they know, like that, say, for instance, west virginia has the highest rate of overdose desk in the nation from opioid use,
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but they're wearing our clothes and trying to look our look in. can vegetables and drink moon shy? ah, the co option of politicians. there's a long history of here. mcconnell in the senate won his 1st selection, running a tv ad in which he used hound dogs. he played the hillbilly switch to mitch, my senator george w bush as seen as a redneck. that's exactly right. yeah. nice child privilege. totally different clubs, ones on the shark ones, what the country club is a cultural politics to the success of more right wing groups in this country. and it hinges in part of depiction of white working class people. so from the right you
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get this depiction as the salt of the earth. you know, the people that we lift up and from the left you get the stereotypes of vicious money voted against their own economic interest because of guns because of gays. and because of god, the 3 cheese their own behavior is precisely what people on the right point to in enlisting white working class folks for very right wing causes. i mean, they have contempt for the core, the country for middle class, for rural america. and they're now admitting it, it's really important that people who consider themselves progressive, understand what harm they're doing. i'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key in the cold country. because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.
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we're making a movie about media representations and appalachian american people. and so what do you think is important? 2016. 0, man for warren is a mom saying the jobs they really were, the commons is gone. it's got really bad. a lot of folks think about the election. oh, anyway, it goes, there's no way, no co mind and is going to lose a lot of kentucky. people's jobs and this is for my goal. why do people not be able to like it's for their family really wanting to leave regina in united states now? well, i don't want you to try because he is very rude to women in this world. people can't help the latest. they all are right and races. what do you think about his promise to make america? great. again, big rush. why do you identify hillbillies or? yeah, i'm here. leave my keys. are you the only thing?
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i me i why about but it didn't work. don't mess with the color to about after you do it . we can go and make adjustments, but i don't actually think it's at blue. really beautiful. you know, it's so rare that you see appalachian through the eyes of an appalachian person in like new york city or, you know, in the new york times or something. there are storytellers here. sure. able to critically examine their communities and to tell powerful and honest stories. and you don't necessarily always have to find somebody. and to tell that story in memory of the black coal mine and i like to show their hands down the fact that
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there is a small black community given in this place that i didn't even know about for all my years of living. and crazy law was pretty much completely changed off and it's really got me in touch with my community and just help people don't have to be alone in the world that they live. i do the girl in college. her parents really races. obviously she's white. her parents had a very negative view of black people, lazy and dangerous, all kinds of stuff. anna, we had it in secret, and we daily, almost for like 2 years and her parents pulled out of the school. once they found out that we were dating and i haven't seen her since 2012000 really a heartbreaking thing for me. it's tiring to have to have who you are. as a person, everyone should be able to say who they are as a person. that was always very big tomboy, went to school and developed
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a crush on a girl. like i was laying my bed and just cro every night cuz my entire family, they found out they would hate me like just disowning. sometimes people come in and they haven't really had to hear what is like for a l g b t q used to be discriminated against our for a personal color in the group to be discriminated against. so i think it's creating a bridge of understanding between young people and their own community. there is a guardian article that came out about my home town. they were doing a series about poverty in america. they said something like the average yearly income for a household in lee county. kentucky is something like $13000.00 or $14000.00
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a year unless you are over the age of $65.00. and then that drops down to like $6000.00 something dollars a year. not only is this a place where people are so overwhelmingly poor, but also it's a place in america where people are overwhelming, the watt and the vast majority of them always vote republican. i'm not conservative, but i think it's wrong to say, oh you guys are stupid, you're just doing it to your sales republican so you're doing it to your sale. that's not the case. it just seems like you know it's, they're not blaming you for being republican and thereby me for being on greg. if they're not on for that and not by me for that, then you're lazy. after this article came out, there are all these people who outside the community are saying things like this article is really sad. i feel so sorry for the people who live here. ok,
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like this person, the brown people get up and moved to places, opportunities, which is what brought people always do. it's the brain drain. they're telling people to do the same stuff that teachers said to me when i was going to high school and by, well, you got to get out. you can't, you don't need to be here. you've got to get out. there's nothing here. ah, me there's like around no, i have something else. so yeah, i don't know. i don't know what to tell you to do. why not for you to just have like a big head. yeah. like say, if we were going to do a montage of the you know, gotcha. gotcha. all right. voting has finally begun the race for president voters, head of the whole issue between the 1st woman president and a business man running for his 1st elected office. 2015 has truly been unlike any political race we've ever covered before. trump was eager to out surveys that show
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him gaining ground. lot of good goals out there. what's still unknown is the outcome on election day. now, i don't know where we are. what's up in america? let's pick a president, y'all been our time. ready? nettie. hold on ah, a new hilary, fidel, our rep because we don't know where we did this. the most important election i've ever participated in it before. i really didn't care who i voted for this time. i know lots of people with i voted stickers on people seem to be voting a guest here, but we'll see they're like moving up in the morning. what kind of hang over really b o is in error for that. well,
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if you're going to like break it or something went out with, well, i'd like that hillary get a lot more votes and kentucky than people. thank. yeah, she's not a wham, but there are lots of the little blue dots all over this website. so i was for my daughter's, i was for man jason and all the couples. i know who were able to get married on a lot of laurie a decision. well, you did america. donald trump wins west virginia and it's a state where his message played well, it's whole industry is taking a beating map,
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filling in 19 electoral votes to trump at this early hour. a. it is such a hard question because i love these people because people are amazing people. they have people that built this country. these are amazing people. so i would, i just hope my family and i historic all of it. what's unfolding right now. it's not over yet. we're watching every state, every electoral, without a doubt, probably one of the most momentous nights in american political history are in the bank here. secretary, and then you want to pull out, you say, here's the issue. law to red rock, they're smaller, but they're only this only 24 percent of the vote for ah,
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who all those parcels and hillock work, casanova lee. oh gosh, it this you lost and i was happy. i'm happy that i support the and i'm happy that my vote helped him get there. i just really believed that hillary clinton was gonna be the 45th president of the united states. i believed it so much and i wanted it so badly. you had your hopes on being to be able to see the 1st woman president now voted for. then your dream was crushed and i can accept it. you know, i'm not in that camp of like this is a deal breaker. and i want to like in my relationships with people who voted for donald trump because we all know people who voted for donald trump. and i know another problem that was clearly revealed in this campaign is that hillary was unable to appeal to rural folk. and i think that hurt her. i want to see like what a girl could do, but i don't want healy know, well when i run prison it's can all vote me. shell,
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go daddy. i will be a bigger who are don't touch the. i won't live that looks like it would get. it looks like it might burn a little later. any you're hungry. did you hear my stomach growl? i had i i've been on about the 500 calorie diet if that last 4 days. it's not intentional. i'm just, i'm just in the i haven't eaten a whole lot granny. so i am starving. i'm very excited about this fine mill that you are preparing for us. i had to cook, couldn't. when i was growing up, were you responsible for making mills for your siblings and your family were mother and daddy now love them. wow. but mother didn't believe that girls should get
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medication. she wanted me to stay there and take your kids washed dish and sweet mop floors and stuff rather than go school. i just wanted to experience life. that's what my dream was. get no jobs pre enough. we'll make something of myself. i have not heard about you. i've never heard you say that you had a consciousness about leaving. it makes me feel like i am leaving your dream in a way, you know, well, could they that want and desire that you had and didn't get that. that gets transferred to mom and, and amanda and i like as it came to us, we had that opportunity. you know, you know, i'm so grateful for granting i can't tell you the m m is to be able to go to
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school. it's so meaningful. yes. because everybody doesn't get an opportunity, you know, the o apple at the wound and joy and the poem and not of complication. but you cannot know a place without loving it and hating there and fill in everything in between. something inside you has to crack to live in the lot. so your eyes and brain and heart, kind of just properly. those attempting to portray the region must become immersed in the region in a special kind of way. they must go to the mountains, drive these one in rome. they must certain joe for a while with folk from the front porches, must attend weddings and high school graduation. they must study the history of the place and come to understand them a set and awake,
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and look at the lands on the faces of the people, the calluses on their hands and understand the gestational and generational complexities of poverty and culture. i must stand for a while else. smell the air started the gravestones on the hills, that awake inscriptions of name belong to people. not statistics. not stereotyped. ah, look in the line. sometimes you have to leave where you came from to find your voice. and other times you have to return to that same place to listen for a deeper understanding. ah
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hello, high pressure dominates the weather across australia, the my mr. that means lottie fine. and why play of lovely when to sunshine coming for we have got one or 2 showers, blustery showers rolling through the bite. you can see that cold front here, that blue line bringing some wet to weather into the far south of w way that ray will make his way across southern fringes as we go one through the next couple of days. but nothing too much to speak of. debbie's around $1718.00 south east there for melbourne. and adelaide. little colder in hobart hope out. we'll see some longest spells if ramble, wet, weather blustery winds blowing through that. see that went by the coming in across south south australia into victoria. as we go on into friday class, there was
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