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politicalhero · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:52 am Post subject: Kentucky in the news!

Jesus Christ! It is so bad it feels like a Dave Chappelle Spoof!

http://leocitystrobe.blogspot.com/2008/05/kentuckys-race-problem-goes.html

Octopod · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:03 pm Post subject:

wow...what about that last guy Oakley Delong with the case of Milwaukee's Best opened up right next to his easyboy doing the interview. That shit is something else!
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brokebike · cutter Joined: 21 Oct 2007 Posts: 2434 Location: local

well, of course that shit is out there. You can go to any rural, poverty stricken area in any state and get that same response. It's not a Kentucky thing, or a Tennessee thing, or a Florida thing... it's about education more than anything else.

I'm sure that if my grandparents and parents hadn't ventured past the same little stretch of farm road the majority of my family lived on all their lives, I'd probably be instilled with the same ignorant, overly proud, racist view of the world that generations past had.

Kentucky is an easy target for this. Too easy.

That's some of the most cracker jack reporting I've ever seen. If you're digging around in the bottom of that box looking for the prize, of course you're going to get a lot of the crumbs.

jkizzle · cutter Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 519 Location: I.L.L.

yeah, considering it was al jazeera doing the reporting, im not all that suprised. a guy named barack hussein obama gets big digs from them and their larger viewing audience im sure, but to depict kentucky as this is a real hack reporting job.

catamount · townie Joined: 21 Oct 2007 Posts: 163 Location: lex

Yeah this type of shit really irritates me. There are redneck racists everywhere you go - it is not just a KY thing or an Appalachian thing. I've experienced them from Nova Scotia to California, Europe to Australia…they are everywhere.

During the primary folks from KY, WV and other Appalachian regions have been paraded on the news to illustrate the race issue - why not go out to the hills of Southern Cali or backwoods of Oregon and talk to some of the folks out there about their perspectives on race. Why is it that those geographies are represented by their progressive urban centers and Appalachia and the South is represented by the mindsets of a select few small town folks?
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alex · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject:

http://www.dailyyonder.com/obamas-appalachian-problem-its-not-so-easy

jkizzle · cutter Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 519 Location: I.L.L.

excellent article alex, it also needs to be noted that obama got another union endorsement in United Mine Workers of America. odd that these redneck yokels would work for a union that supports a black man huh?

jkizzle · cutter Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 519 Location: I.L.L.

http://www.barackobamaisyournewfixie.com/

just cause its funny.

im not extremely pro-barack, i was more of a kucinich guy really... that crazy old dude rocked.