#The Crisis

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[intheholler]

just wanted to share my worthless piece on the "if i count" dynamic

lived in appalachia all my life, traveled the south a ways. i think, no matter where you're from, there's a marked difference in those of us who were spend/spent time in rural areas, tiny quiet towns, etc. and those who were raised in big cities - even big cities in the south.

all the rural areas have something in common - sure, the specific cultures and types of people who settled the land may be different, but our ancestors (and even us in modern times) had to come much more to terms with living with the land, making the most out of a little, than those who have only ever known the city, and especially those who look down on rural folks

and once you've gotten a taste of that rural life, and even the types of poverty that come with it... once you've been raised by people who lived with that, it doesn't shake out of you, no matter where you end up finding yourself. it ingrains itself in your soul, to where sometimes personally i feel like an entirely different species to those who have only ever known the concrete jungle, who have never been around anyone who trekked through the holler or hiked the plains or climbed those big mountains.

that type of living, that type of history that gets leeched into you even if you feel you didn't get the full experience of living there, puts that spirit into your soul, and you carry it. whether you got it from a life of personal experience, or you were raised by a country man or woman, or anything between.

even if you find yourself in a metropolis, you're not lookin' at it the same way that people who have always lived there do... even if it seems like them ol' hollers and hills, or plains, or valleys, or mountains are light years away.

you can't abandon it. it can't abandon you. you can try to tamper your accent, you can try to remove all signs of the "negative" stereotypes, but it's the soil that fed your roots. once you've been touched by it, you're as much the holler as the holler itself is, in a way

that's my two cents, anyway

you can't abandon it. it can't abandon you. you can try to tamper your accent, you can try to remove all signs of the "negative" stereotypes, but it's the soil that fed your roots. once you've been touched by it, you're as much the holler as the holler itself is, in a way

THIS is what i have tried n tried to say over the course of dozens of such posts, and you managed to condense it into one neat, poignant paragraph. thank you. i have nothing to add.

this whole ask is beautiful and exactly what i always want to say, actually. i'd wanna pin it to my blog but atp, i simply cannot part with The Sign

thanks so much for this. was definitely not worthless <33

[garadinervi]

Langston Hughes, Johannesburg Mines, (drafts, typescript and carbon, corrected), 1924 [Langston Hughes papers, JWJ MSS 26, Poems, Single Poems, Box 379, folder 6540, Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT]

Johannesburg Mines In the Johannesburg Mines There are 240,000 Native Africans working. What kind of poem Would you Make out of that? 240,000 natives Working in the Johannesburg mines. ― Published in «The Messenger», Vol. VII, No. 2, February 1925, p. 93 (pdf here) (then in «The Crisis», February 1928) [Marxists' Internet Archive]

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[oddwomen]

Audre Lorde, 1985. Photo by Eric Stephen Jacobs.

[cindylyns]

Please vote. Our democracy is in danger.

"The union of America is the foundation-stone of her independence; the rock on which it is built; and is something so sacred in her constitution, that we ought to watch every word we speak, and every thought we think, that we injure it not, even by mistake."

Thomas Paine, The Crisis

[2othcentury]

The Crisis (November 1985)

[gregor-samsung]

La Crise [The Crisis] (Coline Serreau, 1992)

[angelbvn]

FUCKING WAKE UP TUMBLR

[elfanonymous]

OH MY GOD I DID NOT JUST DO THAT

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how it feels to be online these days

[intheholler]

I just found this account through an appalachian mutual. And dude, I would pay to just sit down and talk to you about anything related to appalachia. I get The Crisis too because of so many reasons. I'm from the ass end of the mountains. Where they don't really give a shit about the resources in em, but there's textile/carpet Mills I'm every which way. But my family history is all over the place. So that, coupled with not being in the thick of the appalachians makes me question a lot of things. But I relate so heavily to a lot of the stuff this account says. Especially the accent struggles, oh my lands. Anyway, that's enough outta me. I love this blog and I hope you have a good day!

hey there!! ngl its kinda surreal to hear someone say to me 'i'd pay to sit down and talk to you' hahah

first off - zero compensation needed, am always available n eager to discuss all things appalachia <3 lol

second off - The Crisis fuckin blows, and i'm sorry to hear you're struggling with it too. questioning if you are who you are is hellish. personally, it feels like every time i feel like i've made peace, it comes back. why is identity so complicated?

but anyway, if you ever want/need to talk about The Crisis or The Accent Issue or literally anything adjacent to the hills, both my DMs and my asks are open (and i'm not usually as scarce as i have been for the past month or so, promise)

thanks for bein here n yall take care <3

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