Posted on 04/17/2023 3:15:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Hulu has a documentary coming out about Freaknik that has our aunties, uncles, and parents expressing their concerns—in the form of a lawsuit.
Earlier this month, Hulu teased the upcoming documentary Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told, Variety reported. The documentary highlights the infamous Spring break festival that swept the ’90s and had many in a chokehold.
Taking place in Atlanta, Georgia, each year, swarms of people, primarily students from HBCUs, would flock to the city to turn up Uncle Luke style up until the festival ended in 1999.
Now the new generation will get a chance to see what exactly went down and led to Freaknik’s demise when Hulu releases the documentary, which was executive produced by Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell himself.
But not everyone is on board with the documentary’s release. A group of Black women professionals, comprised of one politician, three high-level corporate executives, and one judge, have lawyered up and are threatening to sue Hulu in hopes of stopping the documentary’s release, News One reports.
One woman, a married mother of three who makes over $1 million annually, believes the documentary shows her in an “unflattering light” and there are already videos circulating online she doesn’t want her children to see.
The Rickey Smiley Morning Show discussed the possible lawsuit and thinks the debate of fair use could come into play about the Freaknik footage that is over 25 years old. Some who attended Freaknik have taken to social media to express their concern about the documentary’s release.
One woman posted a TikTok that went viral on Twitter with one person claiming that “All the Freaknik aunties scared.”
“I’VE BEEN TO SEVERAL FREAKNIKS. 94′ WAS ONE THAT I ATTENDED. I’M JUST PRAYING THAT JESUS BE A FENCE,” THE WOMAN SAID IN THE VIDEO.
Others recalled officer Thaddeus Lloyd, who was suspended with pay in 2012 after a graphic throwback photo of his behavior at the ’91 Freaknik surfaced online, Daily Mail reported.
The new documentary is slated for a mid-April 2024 release, which would mark the 30th anniversary of the famed 1994 Freaknik celebration.
Now I kinda want to review this documentary.
I spent a summer with roommates, 2 who went to HBCUs. One was fairly normal. One wanted segregation. He was more along the lines of a Farrakhan type of them.
I'm looking forward to seeing Stacy Abrams go wild …
Paging Barbara Billingsly......
Back in the mid-90s, my wife drove my oldest son to Atlanta for a middle school competition, and got caught in the “Freaknick” celebration/near-riot. Her SUV was surrounded, with multiple thugs jumping on her car. Multiple police stood by and watched, without helping her get out of the area. Finally, one officer did his job and ran off the hooligans, letting her turn around and get to her hotel.
The whole ordeal now seems like a precursor to the BLM riots of today.
I/E. Jesus will hide their disgusting behavior from the world.
See post 18. It primes the pump by promotion of chaos, the actual details don’t matter. The prime is to promote and keep in peoples mind the chaos. Antifa and blm are mostly dormant, but will be brought back to the forefront the closer to primaries and elections. Creating the atmosphere doesn’t start at the primaries, it is a building process.
I remember reading in the news a out huge numbers of cars flying down interstate 75.
It was a thing here in ATL in the ‘90s. It was such a pain in the butt that even the black political leadership of Atlanta wanted it done away with.
LOL, that’s funny right there!
It was, well, a scene.
One lasting memory is the scene of a MARTA bus totally stalled in gridlocked traffic at Piedmont and 14th, with a dozen young celebrants dancing on top.
Lived there then and frequented a downtown seafood restaurant with a bar/lounge holding area, where I hung out with staff & friends. Altho open alcohol containers were illegal, they served beer out the side door during Freaknik w/ no problems. Many places did.
Wall-to-wall blacks walking & crusin’.
Some folks don’t want their bad behavior brought to light. I wonder how these ladies felt about certain white people having their college shenanigans with white face brought to light.
Heh
I was a cop in that city during the last big one.
Freaknik was insane.
One year a bride missed her wedding when the attendees decided to shut down the Connector. Her limo was stuck in the traffic. That’s the gentle stuff.
Sh*t was nuts.
spelman girls can get freaky sometimes
Freaknik was a mass event in Atlanta, Georgia. Black youth , many from out of town would descend on the city. Blacks would drive slowly through Atlanta, sometimes stopping their cars to dance on the roofs and car hoods,playing their boom boxes full blast, honking horns, peeing and shitting wherever and throwing trash everywhere. The Freekers shut down the city.
If you were a resident and wanted to go to dinner, a wedding, a park, a sporting event, etc. you were unable to go anywhere. The inconsiderate Freeknik mob made life horrible for residents like our family. The business community lost so much money since traffic was shut down. Ambulances could not take patients to Grady hospital. Eventually Freeknik ended due to pressure on the politicians.
------------- I.E. Jesus will shield them from being seen.
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Realistically, it's supposedly a prayer that Jesus will provide a hedge of protection against the evil of the world. In this case, the prayer for a fence in this case really does seem to be a prayer that the the world will not be permitted to see what they did or said.
Stacy Abrams going wild? Did Golden Corral have cameras?
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