Welcome to the Conversations, the Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. I want to, before we get into the topic today, just thank everyone for your support, for the Nenie's Delhi documentary, for just supporting Juan Riesco. I know that they're very happy with with this and

and you all made it happen so thank you so much to those who contributed to that.

I'm actually on the road this week

involved in some projects. One of them is facilitating the next documentary and if you go to the info section you can find

out more information about that. I'll be talking about it more, but if you want to give to that,

there's a Givesen Go link in the info section and I'll be talking more

about it in the days to come. But I wanted to I wanted to give you a short

podcast today about something that I think is kind of important something that doesn't get talked about a lot and that is

Appalachian discrimination that's right Appalachian discrimination are people in the Appalachian Mountains specifically or people who just

live in the South in general I suppose are they discriminated against? People who are

are culturally Southern, culturally especially Appalachian.

And the reason I bring this up isn't to,

obviously, knowing me, you know that I'm not trying to paint

this group of people as a victim category that deserves some kind of

reparations. I'm not going down the same narrative that Black Lives Matter goes down at all.

The reason I actually bring it up is because I think it shows the hypocrisy of Black Lives Matter.

And this idea that it's only ethnic minorities,

or now they're using the term sexual minorities or women who aren't really

actually minorities but they get that treatment somehow that they are all discriminated against and that's it and it's

very very hard and fast kind of categories that we have and if you're white straight male Christian

if you're especially if you're you're all those things and you reside on in the

south and I suppose if you have a German heritage I mean you're really done for if that's the case

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