nuzzles - 2009-03-20
Er...I'm not a scientist or anything, but I think those Appalachian hills might be a little older than that.
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baleen - 2009-03-20 No, God created them 300 yrs ago for us.
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Lauritz Melchior - 2009-03-20
Thanks. I really want to see the whole thing.
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heyitslozeau - 2009-03-20
This is a pretty awesome special, I watched it when it was on TV, but damned if I couldnt make it more than 40 minutes in before I needed a break.
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Enjoy - 2009-03-20
As good as this special was, I won't be back to read the comments here. I can't bare to to read what the "compassionate liberals" have to say about these poor people. By "say" I mean hate them for being poor.
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B. Weed - 2009-03-20 Forgot to log in as Cena_mark, did you?
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Cleaner82 - 2009-03-20
Sharp kid. He knows his shitty family issues are what makes him a good player -- life is funny that way.
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Cena_mark - 2009-03-20
The people of the Appalachians are proud people who don't need patronizing from the likes of Dike ann Sawyer.
That kid is a real trooper. I hope he gets a big college scholarship.
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Cena_mark - 2009-03-21 They're not my ilk. Atlanta is not in Appalachia. Though I do not have much in common with these people (I'm educated, working, not on drugs) I can at least attest that we are proud to be Americans. I would rather chill with these people than San Francisco freaks any day.
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Cena_mark - 2009-03-21 It does suck how sadder each segment gets. The football star graduates and goes to college, but drops out in 8 weeks.
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Spastic Avenger - 2009-03-21
One of the primary reasons I submitted this is that the boy's situation is very loosely analogous to mine. I come from a crappy, run-down industrial community within an even larger industrial community. Where I grew up is considered the shithole within the shithole. I am one of only two people from my primary school to get to university, and the only one to continue on to postgraduate level. If I moved back to where I grew up, I would be stabbed or shot in days.
http://www.halebank.com if you want to see it for yourselves.
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Spastic Avenger - 2009-03-21 oops, forgot to say 'if there's anything that ever motivates you to work hard, it's knowing that if you don't you're going to have to go back home to that'.
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Mike Tyson?! - 2009-03-21
So, that kid drops out of college and moves back... To the mountains? Fuck.
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Camonk - 2009-03-21
Every like twenty years somebody goes, HOLY SHIT THE SOUTH/APPALACHIA IS POOR
And then they forget again, and these people go on, and nothing is ever really done.
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Paracelsus - 2009-08-29
Anthropology.
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