Tim Barrus Response NYT Ross Douthat
I am a communist. Capitalism is confused. These ideas will be too radical for Gatekeepers. Because the ideas are the truth. Gatekeepers will never see Appalachia for what it is. A place apart. Not the candy cane Instagram Place Apart. But a Harder Truth. Executions in WV were all hanging by the neck. Via the authority of the county. Not even the State. The word State. The word County. The word Republican. Are all hangings by the neck. Racism. Parents of disabled teenagers hate Instagram. It invaded their homes with the contempt of other teenagers. Go blow a mountain up is No Hope for any of you. He hates women. He hates blacks. He hates black women times twenty. The vitriol spewing venom from his mouth was before the coffee kicked in. Gatekeeper Manchins have a lot in common with status quos that always change. The microphone is always on. Oh, here we go. The Proletariat Journalism Wars are tightly controlled by Wall Street, Management, Marriage, Stuff and Baby wants to go to Yale, and TV. Write the word hate on a cocktail napkin. White shoes. Protective Services. I live in Appalachia. We do not have hope in our homes. We have magazines and old papers as insulation. We have hunger. We are ill. There are no doctors. You are going to die. We will take care of your children, we lie a lot. What has Manchin done for foster homes. The ones where death still lingers in the southern air like pale moonshine glitters clean through the oaks themselves. I have a camera. I am a camera.