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The Gullah/Geechee Nation
Posted on 05/13/2014 11:22:54 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA
With apologies to Longfellow:
By the shores of Gullah-Geechee
By the shining Atlan-tic-Sea,
Stood the wigwam of...
... Queen Quet?
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posted on
05/13/2014 11:42:47 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: 11th_VA
Why does this sound so much like an episode in the TV series "Leverage"?
I have some computer skills. Maybe I should make like Hardisan and create a nation too!
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posted on
05/13/2014 11:46:17 AM PDT
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
To: Utilizer
I don’t know about that, but last week I was in SC, and the price of baskets they were selling, must have included ‘reparations’ as well. They are crazy to ask $75 for a basket.
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posted on
05/13/2014 11:50:37 AM PDT
by
11th_VA
(Decriminalize Tax Evasion)
To: 11th_VA
Sweet grass baskets are expensive, but they’re pretty time consuming to weave as well.
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posted on
05/13/2014 11:59:25 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
To: 11th_VA
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:00:32 PM PDT
by
Little Ray
(How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
To: LeoWindhorse
Nope. No Voodoo or Santeria in the Low Country; have to go to south Florida or Louisiana for that. They’re mostly good Christians
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:02:46 PM PDT
by
Little Ray
(How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
To: 11th_VA
Wow who knew as a (white/Euro ancestry) person living in Wilmington, N.C. I now live in another nation (and why I have I never heard this before)?
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:02:50 PM PDT
by
JSDude1
(Defeat Hagan, elect a Constutional Conservative: Dr. Greg Brannon!)
To: 11th_VA
Those are locally made according to old traditions. The artisans have to have licenses and permits. If you want a cheap, Chinese-made basket, go to Pier 1.
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:03:51 PM PDT
by
Mamzelle
(I)
To: 11th_VA
I dont know about that, but last week I was in SC, and the price of baskets they were selling, must have included reparations as well. They are crazy to ask $75 for a basket.Give 'em some credit for making an attempt to earn some money, rather than insisting upon handouts. I'll bet they were pretty much self-sufficient until the explosion of goobermint "programs".
And maybe their culture expects you to haggle over the price?
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:24:32 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: 11th_VA
She must be a relative of Michelle Obama’s. I remember reading that her ancestry goes back to the Gullah peoples who lived off shore along the East Coast of NC. SC. GA. I didn’t realize it goes all the way south to Jacksonville, fl.
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posted on
05/13/2014 12:47:33 PM PDT
by
Gumdrop
(~)
To: 11th_VA; wideawake
I've always loved and been fascinated by Gullah, and I hate to see it politicized, but it was inevitable.
So let me get this straight . . . when the "indigenous peoples" say they want all non-indigenous people out, they mean only the white ones? Non-white people who don't belong here get to stay? The same way all non-whites, indigenous or not, get local control and a society based on their traditions while white people have to be mid-nineteenth century European materialist intellectuals?
I wonder what old Karl Marx would have made of this Marxism of "blood and soil?"
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posted on
05/13/2014 1:02:57 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
To: wally_bert
When I worked at the public broadcasting network here in SC, there would be periodic bouts of lame documentaries and specials about them.Hey! American Blacks may have been radicalized till they're to the Left of Pol Pot, but Gullah is not lame!
I suggest you get ahold of some American folklore anthologies and read some stories. Joel Chandler Harris also recorded several.
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posted on
05/13/2014 1:05:09 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
To: kearnyirish2
I guess they want recognition to open a casino ...
That has been discussed, but they have no land to speak of. More likely they just want the permanent welfare that the federal government currently gives to Native Americans...
That and to join hands with the "gays" in this country. And to support separation of church and state (for white people only). And to end the Cuban embargo. And every other leftist cause in history, however inane and little-related to the actual Gullah people. Because that's how the Left works.
I'll bet their biggest worry is global warming.
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posted on
05/13/2014 1:08:35 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
To: GeronL; 11th_VA
That is a massive land grab attempt it sounds like to me.
In the late 50s when I was in college in Georgia I knew a guy from Savannah who knew some Gullah. Incomprehensible at first but once you knew the meanings you could make sense of the sounds.
Here's a Gullah Children's Story(4:51)
I've read about the Gullah off and on for the last few years, and if there's a land grab going on it seems to me it's the other way around.
Here's some info from Wikipedia - I know Wiki's not reliable, and the more I learn about it the worse it seems, but this seems about right as far as the land grab goes.
Civil War period
When the U.S. Civil War began, the Union rushed to blockade Confederate shipping. White planters on the Sea Islands, fearing an invasion by the US naval forces, abandoned their plantations and fled to the mainland. When Union forces arrived on the Sea Islands in 1861, they found the Gullah people eager for their freedom, and eager as well to defend it. Many Gullahs served with distinction in the Union Army's First South Carolina Volunteers. The Sea Islands were the first place in the South where slaves were freed. Long before the War ended, Unitarian missionaries from Pennsylvania came down to start schools for the newly freed slaves. Penn Center, now a Gullah community organization on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, began as the very first school for freed slaves.
After the Civil War ended, the Gullahs' isolation from the outside world actually increased in some respects. The rice planters on the mainland gradually abandoned their farms and moved away from the area because of labor issues and hurricane damage to crops. Free blacks were unwilling to work in the dangerous and disease-ridden rice fields. A series of hurricanes devastated the crops in the 1890s. Left alone in remote rural areas in the Low country, the Gullahs continued to practice their traditional culture with little influence from the outside world well into the 20th Century.
Recent history
In recent years the Gullah peopleled by Penn Center and other determined community groupshave been fighting to keep control of their traditional lands. Since the 1960s, resort development on the Sea Islands has threatened to push Gullahs off family lands they have owned since emancipation. They have fought back against uncontrolled development on the islands through community action, the courts and the political process.
To: Zionist Conspirator
“That and to join hands with the “gays” in this country. And to support separation of church and state (for white people only). And to end the Cuban embargo. And every other leftist cause in history, however inane and little-related to the actual Gullah people. Because that’s how the Left works. I’ll bet their biggest worry is global warming.”
These people (the “Ramapough tribe”) aren’t typical leftists (outside of the welfare); these people literally live as though government doesn’t exist outside of the monthly check. They hunt out of season, ride ATVs on state park land where it is expressly prohibited (one was killed in a confrontation with park rangers a few years back stemming from this), and basically do as they please; many don’t finish high school and they are completely unassimilated.
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posted on
05/13/2014 1:41:16 PM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: 11th_VA
Anyone recall a PBS kids show from about 20+ years ago called Gullah-Gullah Island?
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posted on
05/13/2014 1:50:57 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
To: 11th_VA
Acording to Frederik Pohl, the Heechee nation is extinct.
Oh, wait a minute.
Never mind.
To: 11th_VA
“Hmmmm .... Can they do this ???”
It worked out so well for Jefferson Davis and his buddies.
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posted on
05/13/2014 4:03:07 PM PDT
by
Holdem Or Foldem
(Life isn't fair, so wear a cup.)
To: Zionist Conspirator
The people are interesting, yes but the typical documentary or special produced was dull.
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posted on
05/13/2014 4:27:30 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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