Listen to the video below titled Coal Fire. It is a beautiful song, and pay attention to the words. A thousand years ago when Kadizzle first started his career in coal mine safety he drove through the town this song may have been written about in southern West Virginia. The memory comes back so clear. As Kadizzle drove into this small mining town he saw smoke coming up our of the cracks in the street. Smoke came up out of people yards. The whole town seemed like hell and the burning coal under the town made it smell like sulfur. It was one of the strangest places Kadizzle has ever seen humans were willing to live. The coal mine fires this song speaks of occurred in Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. How this coal could burn and where it got the oxygen was mysterious. Kadizzle remembers a famous incident of a coal fire that was in Pennsylvania. They tried every thing they could think of, but it just kept burning. Hard to imagine living where every block had it's own little smoke plume coming from the ground day and night. Few can imagine the destruction coal mining has wrought on the southern Appalachian mountains. Worst of all are the people destroyed by the greed of the coal barons. Nothing has changed. Today we have Republicans happy to burn the Earth down to make a dollar.
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