-Isms: Views on life in rural America

I don’t pay a lot of attention to television commercials; however, one in particular will always stand out.

Picture it: a beautiful river, pastel orange sky and a rock-strewn shoreline. What viewers eventually see is a polluted river, smoke puffing out of factory stacks and garbage covering the shore.

The narrator says, “Some people have a deep abiding respect for the natural beauty that was once this country and some people don’t. People start pollution and people can stop it.”

Then, the camera zooms in on a Native American, a single tear falling down his cheek.

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