Posted on 10/25/2022 7:24:50 AM PDT by montag813
by Jim Clayborn | RNN
Here's a touching palate cleanser to start the day.
The Kentucky Wildcats hosted their annual "blue-white scrimmage" when a father and son caught the eye of Coach John Calipari.
The father, a coal miner, sat there with his face still covered in coal dust while his son looked excited to be at the game and with his dad.
Coach Calipari snapped a photo and tweeted "My family’s American dream started in a Clarksburg, WV coal mine, so this picture hits home. From what I’ve been told, after his shift, he raced to be with his son & watch our team."
A user responded with an incredible comment the man's wife Mollie McGuire posted on Facebook. She was at the game with them:
(Excerpt) Read more at rightnewsnow.org ...
The father, a coal miner, sat there with his face still covered in coal dust while his son looked excited to be at the game and with his dad.
What is the first thing eyes go to?
I see a hardworking man with his son. The coal dust tells me how hard working he is and the son tells me what he thinks is important.
Some only see the dust on his face......................
real women want real men
How racist of him to show up in blackface at a basketball game of all places!
/some idiot on twitter probably
God Bless Your Dad.
From the article...
“Some days Twitter doesn’t suck.”
Is that all you got out of this story? I’d rather have that father get a little coal dust on me than not have him at the game with his kid at all.
There’s Molly Maguires in Phoenixville and Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania. I’ve been to both.
Because too many of “us” let the media tell us what to think.
Put it this way - if everyone turned off the TV, ignored the internet, and just went out and experienced life in their community, what would they see more of?
This.
If you said that to him I think he’d tell you to go eff yourself and wonder why you wanted to be alone with his son. If you pushed it further… you might wish you hadn’t. People don’t like to sit next to trash.
Agreed. I do all of what you suggested, other than hanging out here. If it’s not posted to FR, I don’t need to worry about it. :)
The hell with the scrimmage game. I’d pay money for you to tell that strong hard working man, with a wife named Molly McGuire, to go wash up while you sit alone with his little son… lol
Hey Hillary, here’s one that didn’t learn to code. Thank goodness and God Bless.
According to Mom, dad went to work at 4:45 am, worked late till after 5 pm, and the game started at 6. He met them at the arena.
I'm not disputing the nature of the story, but come on people! If this guy was getting coal dust on your kids you would just sit there and tell him what a great guy he is?! Clown.
Ditto.
Made me miss my Dad.
I understand that in pre-colonial days many freed indentured Irish relocated in what is now West Virginia and in the SW Virginia mountains.
You sound like a DC dandy. Anyway, go ahead… tell the coal miner to go wash up while you hang with his son. I’ll laugh as you get thrown out the door. Nobody likes sitting beside a prissy guy.
Sweet!
“If this guy was getting coal dust on your kids you would just sit there and tell him what a great guy he is?”
Coal dust bothers you? Snowflake. I have friends in their 80s whose dads were coal miners. Coal dust wasn’t lethal — obviously.
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