A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains? Rebuttal from Johnson Central

This is what you didn't see in "Children of the Mountains". Kentucky has a lot more to offer than just toothlessness, "mountain dew mouth" and drugs!

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[friendofthedevil]

I understand that you guys don't want to be stereotyped as something you aren't, but the truth is much of eastern kentucky is very poor. It actually makes me sad to see that one school has so many resources when other schools are struggling so much.

Diane Sawyer didn't film you guys because you don't need any help--you're already doing great.

That said, I agree that Appalachia is WAY too stereotyped and Diane Sawyer is in someways unintentionally continuing that myth.

[melanie6557]

But actually Diane Sawyer did film us....the school that boy ( i won't say names) played football at was Johnson Central. She took two years of footage of our school and used hardly any of it.

[SentientCouch]

The simple fact SOME people are doing well in a certain geographic region doesn't mean that there is not a large percentage that aren't.

You wouldn't imagine that poverty exists in New York City if you focused on Manhattan. Go further east out into Brooklyn or north into the Bronx and you'll see exactly what I mean. This "rebuttal" doesn't prove anything. All it proves is that not all of that region lives in abject poverty, something which anybody with a brain can understand.

[danielkeeton]

Kentuckians get by. Kentuckians are normal people. I love our culture, our music, our food. Kentucky is amazing.

[jceagle45]

@123shoobedoo (cont) It is, however, the school's job to insure that their students receive the best possible education and all the new technology that JCHS received helps them do just that.

[jceagle45]

@123shoobedoo Because it's not the place if a school system to make sure all their students don't have lazy, incompetent parents drawing a check so they don't have to work (not that every person drawing a check is lazy and/or incompetent.)

[123shoobedoo]

If they can spend the money building up the schools why dont thye help the families around them? maybe then you wouldn't have had to deal with diane filing around and trying to help out the people that you guys are obviously ignoring. accept the fact that you have one of the highest rates of poverty. just because you're doing good doesn't mean shit.

[katienicholemcmahan]

@SentientCouch

Yeah, you are right about the abject poverty stuff.

BUT that doesn't mean that she had to show that during the whole special, correct? Do you think she could focus on how much we have achieved in our region as well?

[real80smusic]

the appealing to them voting wise is never going to fucking happen. nada, not going to work unless your a self-hating, low esteem, neo-liberal retard who wants amnesty.

they will get the positions via affirmative action. they only need to keep a few white minds alive.

not much of a positive world for your kids i would think. good luck. hope you wake up some day.

[sos687]

@real80smusic I have always wanted a family of my own. My life wouldn't be complete without being a mother. I thought on what you said about being a minority which I am atm where I currently live due to the military. Life has always been sort of a pyramid with society/class. The people on the top are fewer, but have influence. I think the same could be true here. Unless they are more educated than us they aren't going to be our bosses. Politically you have to appeal to them as voters more.

[real80smusic]

btw we were all put on this earth to keep our tribes going, weather you realize that or not. it is wired into us biologically. you may not understand that now because of the marxist media conditioning but you will in a few years, if it's not too late. you can still have fun and live an exciting life with kids. only losers with fake tits and fake blonde hair, on tv tell you, you can't.

[real80smusic]

We either have at least 3-4 kids each or we become the race that is shit on, it's the simple. btw you don't have to live in poverty to have kids. look at that show called the "duggers". they budget and have 20 kids.

anyway, not like the mexicans will care, they will just keep having kids on welfare forever. they want to take over the country. it's a war weather you realize it or not.

[real80smusic]

By all means have them later at 25, but just a little note for you, your eggs will start dying out at 30+ years old and it makes it harder to have kids. It's a biological thing.

Another thing, you will not like being the minority. I had a cousin in a mexican american school and he was beaten up everyday.

[sos687]

@real80smusic I do realize that the last few years the economy has been bad. As always I think consumers should stay optimistic, because not spending doesn't help the situation. I have heard that Hispanic/Latino population is going to eventually make white the minority. I'd rather the white minority be respectable than degrade itself by having children too young in poverty. I want my kids to have one stable family with mom and dad. I also don't want to be on welfare. I plan on having kids at 25