Terra Vance

Coal camp full flavored WV Melungeon

[Terra Vance @AhabInSpace]

@JDVance Bonnie is very disappointed. She deserved so much better.

[Terra Vance @AhabInSpace]

JD Vance and I have many shared ancestors, but he changed his name to Vance, a name that carries a lot of generational >>Melungeon<< Hillybilly credentials.

The world canonized a parody of our Hatfield/Vance ancestors as barefoot, predatory, ignorant dolts and “pig stealers.”

[JD Vance @JDVance]

In the last several weeks, my office has received many inquiries from actual residents of Springfield who've said their neighbors' pets or local wildlife were abducted by Haitian migrants. It's possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false.

Do you know what's confirmed? That a child was murdered by a Haitian migrant who had no right to be here. That local health services have been overwhelmed. That communicable diseases--like TB and HIV--have been on the rise. That local schools have struggled to keep up with newcomers who don't know English. That rents have risen so fast that many Springfield families can't afford to put a roof over their head.

Here is Kamala Harris bragging about giving amnesty to thousands of Haitian migrants.
https://t.co/bpHJWBBsyC

If you're a reporter, or an activist, who didn't give a shit about these suffering Americans until yesterday, I have some advice:

Spare your outrage for your fellow citizens suffering under Kamala Harris's policies. Be outraged at yourself for letting this happen.

[Terra Vance @AhabInSpace]

@JDVance Your mamaw would be disgraced right now. She would warsh your mouth out with soap.

[Terra Vance @AhabInSpace]

@Hozier @BedouineMusic It took me a while trying to figure out why you introduced yourself as Justin Oat.

Nobody's Soldier 🔥🔥🔥

[Terra Vance @AhabInSpace]

@realDonaldTrump You know it's JD Vance and Elon Musk and Peter Thiel who want you in jail, right?

[Terra Vance @AhabInSpace]

A coal slurry dam ruptured and released 132 million gallons of black, toxic sludge on locals. The Buffalo Creek flood killed 125, injured 1,121, and left over 4,000 people homeless.

This was a completely preventable disaster that happened because of inadequate regulations.

[Terra Vance @AhabInSpace]

Academia is hilariously wrong when they try to conjecture about Appalachian vernacular and culture.

I saw people trying to understand how we got to saying your'n, his'n, her'n.

It ain't that complicated, y'all. We are just speaking King James Version English.

[Terra Vance @AhabInSpace]

[It's not actually about the Lord, but it's like a passtime to insiders to sound cryptic to confused outsiders]

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Image features James Chapman sitting in front of the wreckage of his community in my hometown of Logan, WV.

[Terra Vance @AhabInSpace]

@KamalaHQ AHAHAHAHAAAA

[Hollerist✊️ @RevBradleyUMC]

That's not a bottle of pop @mtnstspotlight 's photographer is looking at...that's coalfield water ya'll

[Terra Vance @AhabInSpace]

JD Vance hangs his horseshoes with the open end facing up.

JD Vance forages at Whole Foods.

JD Vance's beard is business casual.

#shillbilly #JDVance

[Terra Vance @AhabInSpace]

This graphic is from the Before We Were White podcast. It's JD Vance's family tree. The whole career of JD Vance is based on a myth of Scots-Irish ancestry. Those question marks and brown logos indicate untraceable, Native American, or other mixed-ethnic marginalized groups.

[Hollerist✊️ @RevBradleyUMC]

Being a *Friend of Coal* is not the same as being a friend of coal miners...

The former is cozying up to the industry that's exploiting, degrading, debilitating, and killing the latter

[Terra Vance @AhabInSpace]

I'm a Vance from Logan County, West Virginia. I'm an actual #hillbilly. Making America great again might involve going back to the time when strangers heard my accent and sang a John Denver song to me instead of asking me if I'm related to JD Vance.

[Hollerist✊️ @RevBradleyUMC]

For those of us existing in the corporate colony of the coalfields, this is the freedom work to which we're called: Remembering who we are, returning to the old ways, fighting to liberate our people and for the restoration of our land...thanks for this @KaitlinCurtice

[Terra Vance @AhabInSpace]

@JimJusticeWV Joe Biden’s economic policies are failing WV, but so are yours. We can’t even forage, hunt, and fish anymore because YOUR MINES that made you rich are poisoning our people. She has no water. Our people are disposable cheap labor to you. Your ancestors would be horrified

[Terra Vance @AhabInSpace]

@JimJusticeWV How can West Virginians defend themselves against you selling them out for profit and poisoning them? How do you justify that this is what the DEP said is safe to drink? 388 parts per billion lead. 188 arsenic. You don’t even care. Pinkerton.

[Terra Vance @AhabInSpace]

@Humble_calling2 Snake handling churches aren’t from the culture of rural white people. But yes, this.