I’ve got something to say and this is where I say it.
“Staying quiet is never the best thing to do when you have something to say. Those with authority tell you to know when to keep your mouth shut. But that only keeps you silent. I’ve got something to say and I am going to say it.” —Matt Pierce
A San Antonio Journalist on Media, Middle America, and the Stories Outsiders Keep Getting Wrong
Working people. Rural people. Small-town people. Texans. Southerners. People who live outside the polished districts where the media class feels comfortable. People who work with their hands, bury their dead quietly, vote their conscience, raise families, lose jobs, rebuild lives, sit in traffic, pray when nobody is watching, and keep going because that is what people have always done.
Then the outsiders package them.
Motherland Won’t Let Go
She holds us because some part of us still remembers the original dream. The open road. The clean start. The night air. The feeling that we could go somewhere and become someone else before morning.