So I just had someone say they defriended me because I was too angry about my issue. Well thats right. I am angry and I think it needs to be said. Daily I watch people I know personally and those I dont suffer. Suffer from poverty, illness, and death. I had my identity as an Appalachian violated and a big part of my family history destroyed. My own ancestors can no longer rest in peace as the ground around their graves was decimated. I watched my grandmother die of kidney failure and daily I have to wonder as was there something in her water. My own father can barely breath and was just diagnosed with cancer and he missed a big part of my childhood because he had to work in the coal mines to put food on the table. I am outliving people I played with as a kid and people I went to highschool with have things like brain tumors and surgeries to have things like their gall bladders removed. I know children as young as 5 with cancer and babies born with respiratory illnesses and birthdefects. People who have their home shaken daily from chemical explosives being detonated above their communities and who can sleep at night because of the roar of heavy machinery. I have spent countless hours and days talking to politicians and government agencies who dont care or if they do are too cowardly to do anything about it. I have spend more days than I can count in DC talking to these people and yet no one up there is taking a stand for us. No one is saying enough of the sacrifice for profit. And some just want to talk about the symptoms and not the cause. We have scientist after scientist saying this stuff is killing people and still nothing is done. We are told we have to just deal with it because someone has to make a profit. I was just told I needed to own my stuff? Well guess what I am owning it. And as far as I am concerned I have the right to be angry as so do others. And if I werent angry then I wouldnt be human.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:37:03 +0000
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