Posted on 10/06/2016 10:49:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
My phone is telling me that my GPS signal has been lost, which is not the most comforting thing to hear while driving into a thick and winding nothingness in the woods of Fulton County, Georgia, just southwest of Atlanta. I’m searching for Bouckaert Farm, the site of the first annual Many Rivers to Cross festival. The brainchild of Harry Belafonte and his daughter Gina, the two-day festival exists to, once again, connect all facets of the black oral and performance tradition with the fight for social justice. This isn't a new idea; similar concerts have been held many times over many years. But it feels, today, in this moment, especially needed. I ride here on the back of a violent year, both physically and emotionally, and one that promises more violence before it loosens its jaw and sends us spinning into another year that will perhaps be just like it. And so I felt called to Many Rivers to Cross, in some ways, not to chase some monolithic form of healing, but, perhaps, to watch a healing in others — a small glimpse of black people getting free.
As I turn around a deep curve, lined with trees, a line of police officers rests ahead, holding out their hands and signaling for me to stop. One of them, a young black man with a tattoo of Georgia on his forearm, leans in through my open window. “Say, bruh,” he starts, in a tone that both calms me and makes me wonder if his white co-workers sent him for that very reason, “you looking for the festival?” After I confirm that I am, indeed, looking and lost, he gives me directions...
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Ping!
Wattstax.
It’s on YouTube.
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib writes like a sophomore in college trying to get laid.
Freedom doesn’t mean the right to rob, rape, murder and get away with it because of your race. Maybe they should be raping about all the dead blacks shot in Chicago by blacks...
Huh, and they thought the trash from the cracker Woodstock was bad..............
What a bunch of pathetic Marxist crap.
Jimi Hendrix must be rolling (but not rocking) over in his grave.
What is the weather doing this weekend? Mud?
Wow. Very interesting.
Oh, umtv. LOL! I’ll check it later after I check on our friends in Brevard FL. So far it looks like our prayers were answered yet again for some safety and a little eastward move of the eye of Matthew.
a thick and winding nothingness in the woods of Fulton County, Georgia, just southwest of Atlanta.
Must be down near the airport.
Scary woods though, trees and everything!
“Mickey Fearn, the National Park Service Deputy Director for Communications and Community Assistance, made headlines when he claimed that black people don’t visit national parks because they associate them with slaves being lynched by their masters.”
The Racist Trees of Our National Parks
Trees are America’s newest racist symbol.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262727/racist-trees-our-national-parks-daniel-greenfield
Please, somebody put a sock in one-hit wonder Harry Belafonte. Other than Paris Hilton, it’s hard to think of someone who has made an entire career out of being good-looking.
“fight for social justice. “
There is no such thing as “social justice,” and I can prove it.
5.56mm
Had to laugh when a friend said that PH looked like a stork.
LOL!
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