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for your input. I am 70, still learning.
painful but I think we'd all be better for it.
Thank you for your 70 years of wisdom!
we all have is to keep trying to find the areas of common ground we can all feel comfortable with in sharing as americans regardless of race and culture I guess. Just have to keep trying in spite of the likes of trump.
people about this very subject today while waiting for hospital tests. The plastic, styrofoam disaster floating in the Pacific OCEAN as part of that we leaving, bequeathing to the 11-year-olds and their children. I see horrific. Unless our ingenuity saves us.
these are great pictures.
I am reminded of the traditional in Caribbean carnival of J'Ouvert, where:
The origins of street parties associated with J'ouvert coincide with the emancipation from slavery in 1838. Emancipation provided Africans with the opportunity not only to participate in Carnival, but to embrace it as an expression of their newfound freedom. Some theorize that some J'ouvert traditions are carried forward in remembrance of civil disturbances in Port of Spain, Trinidad, when the people smeared themselves with oil or paint to avoid being recognized.[citation needed]
The traditions of J'ouvert vary widely throughout the Caribbean. In Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada, a part of the tradition involves smearing paint, mud or oil on the bodies of participants known as "Jab Jabs"."
In other words, black people would disguise themselves with various things to avoid being identified while celebrating. It is the unpretty side of carnival.
very interesting. I must research. THANK YOU