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hard to stomach

posted 14 years ago by shotgunhomicide
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Seeing as how I was born and raise in the heart of Kentucky, this documentary was disturbing to me. What made it so disturbing is that NOTHING really shocked me. You see a lot of people of the likes of the White family in this area, but it appalls me that people look to this garbage to define this entire region. People fail to realize that no matter where you go, you are always going to have folks that follow a lifestyle that is incomprehensible to anyone that hasn't seen both ends of the spectrum.

Not everyone around here are worthless leaches that don't own a pair of shoes. Like anyone else, most of the people work hard for what they have and it still isn't even enough.

Personally, I'd rather be from Kentucky than Jersey.

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[–] shotgunhomicide 14 years ago

Jersey Shore, frank the entertainer.. that's all I have to say.

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[–] shotgunhomicide 14 years ago

Waverly Hills is somewhere everyone should go to in their life. It's so creepy and full of history.

Cram it with walnuts, ugly!

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[–] shotgunhomicide 14 years ago

Yes, I've been there 3 times I think? They always have something really cool going on there around halloween. Plus, they have some really awesome concerts on the grounds. I only live about 2 hours away from Waverly, so it's always fun to travel there to whatever they have going on :)

Cram it with walnuts, ugly!

[–] TerrorDementia 14 years ago

You don't want people to judge Kentucky or WV by people like the Whites, yet you judge New Jersey by the same exact type of standards...

[–] lancedulak 14 years ago

Your comments are flat out full of ignorant and imho you're more likely the white trash of ky. I too am from the hills of kentucky and a lot of people there are too this day dirt poor. Poverty on a scale those outside the appalachians cant imagine because there are literally no jobs and no industry. Only around the few big cities are there any jobs. Lexington, Paducah, Louisville. Kentucky people are the finest ive ever known and, yes, some are poor.

As for Jersey, New Jersey has some of the most beautiful towns and cities in the US. Second only to kentucky. Lexington kentucky is the most beautiful city in the US period and ive been to them all. New Jersey people are exceptionally nice people,extremely tolerant and it's a shame the state gets such a bad rep. Mostly from ignorant people like yourself and New Yorkers who glorify that dirty hellhole they live in by dumping on Jersey.

[–] Stirchley 13 years ago

New Yorkers who glorify that dirty hellhole they live in by dumping on Jersey

Just like you are now dumping all over New York City.

[–] Tracey73 13 years ago

Hi, stirchley ... I just watched this doc last night and was going to let you know about it. Seriously, it was a total guilty pleasure to watch lol.

I'm reaching for the life within me. How can one man stop his ending. ~ Blue October

[–] Stirchley 13 years ago

^Hi Tracey ,

I just replied to your EM re this documentary. I didn't even remember posting here at all.

[–] parisel 14 years ago

It's true that there are people like this in many parts of the country. We have pictures of a family in upstate NY, Bear Mountain region in the 1960's. These people would come into town sporadically and buy supplies They would not send their kids to school, and the school authorities had long since given up. Even law enforcement gave them a wide berth and did nothing.

It was a live and let live situation. On their visits to down, things went missing in stores and yards, and common sense said let it go. Not worth getting shot over.

Jessco White and his clan are an aberration now. Throwbacks. Since the advent of television and Interstates and decent mountain roads, West Virginia is no different than anywhere else, except for its friendly and charming people, and utterly glorious scenery.

I guess it's like looking at clouds. You see one thing and I see another. Peace.

[–] Strongsad38001 14 years ago

Psh, Bear Mountain ain't Upstate :D You wanna see some real mountain people, I knew a guy who hiked all 46 high peaks in the Adirondacks in winter... in shorts and a t-shirt!

[–] parisel 14 years ago

Depends on who you are..To people from NYC, anywhere outside the city and the island is upstate...

I guess it's like looking at clouds. You see one thing and I see another. Peace.

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[–] jewls73-997-82 14 years ago

I am so disturbed by this post as a whole. To start, I completely agree with you that you should not generalize about a community based solely on the sum of some of its parts. I understand that there are people like the White's spread out all over this country. What I am having a really hard time with is that you made this statement about not judging a whole region by what you see in the media, but proceed to, in the next breath, judge the whole state of New Jersey by what you see in the media.

You may want to rethink casting stones whilst living in a glass house. Just a thought...

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[–] Dragon000 14 years ago

Good words to live by. As is often said by the filmmakers themselves, and many other folks in the documentary, this is not meant to be representative of Boone County, West Virgina, or the South in general. It is just meant to be representative of the White family.

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