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queerdiazs · 6 months

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everyday i think of the way the american south is treated and everyday i get more fuckin mad about it

my way of life has been romanticized and watered down into an aesthetic for the internet yet if a majority of you were to ever meet me or somebody like me in real life you'd hate us because we don't fit into that cute little cubby you've made for us. it makes me laugh thinking about the way most of you would react if you ever saw a coal miner fresh off work and on their way home.

and it's not a big deal really but it's a big deal to me because a lot of you call yourselves progressives but you're actually everything you accuse people from the south of being :)

#'why don't you leave' it's my home why would i leave the place and the people i love #'why don't you vote better reps in' i'm not allowed to vote on the republican ballot because i'm not registered as a republican #'you deserve it because you live in the south' nobody deserves to be treated as less than just bc of their location #'why don't you do something about it' things are being done about it but change takes time and effort #the south is not and never has been red. the south is suppressed. the south is labelled as uneducated inbred fools when it's actually #so incredibly diverse in every fucking way with huge populations of poor minorities and white people who are preyed upon by #those in power + those who look down on us because that's the way we've been casted in media #meanwhile the REAL south is all about community and connections and taking care of each other #this country will never see full and real and permanent change until the south is cared about the way we fuckin deserve #one of these days i'll learn to better articulate the way all of this makes me feel but for right now this is all i have #amanda talks

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