This is true. Whenever I see people on TV or the internet or wherever raising money for clean water and basic sanitation or basic electricity in other parts of the world, I think about the THOUSANDS of homes I've seen in West Virginia, Tennessee, and especially Texas that lack water, toilets, and electricity.
Somehow America's dirt poor aren't as exciting or trendy as the exotic overseas dirt poor.
> Somehow America's dirt poor aren't as exciting or trendy as the exotic overseas dirt poor.
It's not that poverty is exciting. It's that abject poverty in the richest country on Earth is shocking and goes against assumptions people had as correct since ever.
> THOUSANDS of homes I've seen in West Virginia, Tennessee, and especially Texas that lack water, toilets, and electricity.
What the hell? How can this be? I'm trying to think of something constructive to say here but the situation is so outrageous that I don't know where to start.
Somehow America's dirt poor aren't as exciting or trendy as the exotic overseas dirt poor.