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>Tyler Childers
Thanks for sharing. I just recently discovered this authentic musician myself.
"We’re at a pretty important part in our history where we’re gonna have to re-identify ourselves."
Some wise words coming out of the heart land…
“Coal put food on my table growing up. My dad was a coal miner most of his life and most of my life until the bottom fell out and you couldn’t find a job. But just because my Dad can’t find work in a field that is all he’s ever known, that can’t keep me blinded to the idea that the only thing that’s going to bring coal back is 27 million years of not touching it.
“The reality is, you build an economy on extraction, if Johnny has four apples and Johnny eats four of his apples Johnny doesn’t have any more apples and we’re getting to the bottom of coal seams and its not a long game, there’ got to be an end. What’s ended up happening and happens all the time, it happened before Trump got in office, is they’ll open up some coal mine that’s shut down and put 200 people to work, put it in the paper. It gets everybody hopeful, things are looking up and then it’ll shut down and they’ll blame it on regulation and that’s not true. What really happened is you guys were doomed to close the minute you opened, it was all just for show, to keep people holding on.
“And coal’s taken a lot of our wealth of minerals from the communities without giving anything to it. A lot of that money goes to bigger interests in bigger cities like Lexington and Frankfort and Lurvall and it’s not giving anything back to the community, nearly as much as its taking.
And scary a thing as it is to say, as a people we’re at a pretty important part in our history where we’re gonna have to re-identify ourselves. It’s not something we’ve not done before. Often times we get really caught up in this identify of being coal miners but before that we were loggers until they’d taken every last good piece of timber we had and had to change us into something else. And before that we were frontiersmen. We’ve always had times where our identity has changed and it just so happens we’re at that point in history where we’re gonna have to change and you know, change is scary. But I’m hopeful.
“You know, we’ve got really good soil for growing pot and a lot of people have made quite a under-the-table honest living out of growing weed and hemp, we’ve got really good soil for that, and maybe we could be on the front end of all this new opportunity in the state and be progressive enough to start passing bills to make it possible for people to grow hemp, grow weed. And if we start growing hemp we could people to work in textiles and all kinds of stuff. And with high unemployment rates it can’t hurt to try.”
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/thesampler/audio/2018672230/tyler-childers-talks-purgatory-pot-and-the-potus