[Albion Wilde]

If you could get to the water, you could escape. But, whitey knew this, too, so punishment for going near the water was severe. Over the generations, slave mothers taught their kids not to go near the water. There you have it.

What absolute crap. Whether slave or free, backs worked the rice plantations with wet or flooded paddies and also the entire fishin' crabbin' shrimpin' coasts from Norfolk to Miami, and around to New Orleans.

[gundog]

Yeah. Sometimes I’m embarrassed for “educated” black folks.