Saturday, July 03, 2004
The TRUTH About Savannah!
Savannah is:
1. "The Weeping Time." The largest sale of slaves in this country. 436 men, women, children, and infants, owned by one man, sold on one day.
Cotton dominated Savannah's export throughout the nineteenth century. The last cotton office on the waterfront closed in 1956.
Ignorance
There is a subtle and consistent sheltered complacency within the native blackfolk here I can see but have never completely understood. The white folk here vary in such a wide range from subtle contempt to some sort of friendly curiosity. Case in point, once I was asked to do a reading at the most notable museum here. The museum was founded by a slave trader of which the locals I was performing with had not knowledge of...OH HELL NAW!
2. "Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil"
when I first tried to watch that movie before I moved here that movie I feel asleep.
Drama and Politrix
If your different...just forget it you will definitely pay unless you go to the local art school. If your not from here or haven't lived here for 10+ you can't get your foot in the door on a social level as well as an employment level. If your a yankee you will always be a yankee. Deep down inside these folks haven't gotten over the civil war though it aint as bad as Mississippi . ALL RIGHTY THEN.
3. Forrest Gump had a scene in the movie where Forrest was on a bench eating his "box of chocolates"...that's Savannah.
Simplicity
Speaks for itself and really it's difficult to mesh simplicity with complexity. Life here is fairly simple and life's complexities seem to be much for people to explore. I can see the good in that as well as the bad. What I find as the result of the combination is that pretentious who seem to wear a mask made of southern charm run rampant here. LAWD YOU KNOW I CAN'T STAND FAKE @$$ DEEP FOLKS.
I don't know I have a definite love hate relationship with this city. Aesthetically it's absolutely beautiful. It's 20 minutes from the beach (imluvinit) warm weather with the most beautiful torment rainbow producing thunderstorms. It's is a place full of history and connections to the path. You actually can walk the underground railroad here. I don't particularly care for most of the people here, love the imported ones (but that has it's rare exceptions). It's a 50/50 deal.
yankeeluv.
Savannah is:
1. "The Weeping Time." The largest sale of slaves in this country. 436 men, women, children, and infants, owned by one man, sold on one day.
Cotton dominated Savannah's export throughout the nineteenth century. The last cotton office on the waterfront closed in 1956.
Ignorance
There is a subtle and consistent sheltered complacency within the native blackfolk here I can see but have never completely understood. The white folk here vary in such a wide range from subtle contempt to some sort of friendly curiosity. Case in point, once I was asked to do a reading at the most notable museum here. The museum was founded by a slave trader of which the locals I was performing with had not knowledge of...OH HELL NAW!
2. "Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil"
when I first tried to watch that movie before I moved here that movie I feel asleep.
Drama and Politrix
If your different...just forget it you will definitely pay unless you go to the local art school. If your not from here or haven't lived here for 10+ you can't get your foot in the door on a social level as well as an employment level. If your a yankee you will always be a yankee. Deep down inside these folks haven't gotten over the civil war though it aint as bad as Mississippi . ALL RIGHTY THEN.
3. Forrest Gump had a scene in the movie where Forrest was on a bench eating his "box of chocolates"...that's Savannah.
Simplicity
Speaks for itself and really it's difficult to mesh simplicity with complexity. Life here is fairly simple and life's complexities seem to be much for people to explore. I can see the good in that as well as the bad. What I find as the result of the combination is that pretentious who seem to wear a mask made of southern charm run rampant here. LAWD YOU KNOW I CAN'T STAND FAKE @$$ DEEP FOLKS.
I don't know I have a definite love hate relationship with this city. Aesthetically it's absolutely beautiful. It's 20 minutes from the beach (imluvinit) warm weather with the most beautiful torment rainbow producing thunderstorms. It's is a place full of history and connections to the path. You actually can walk the underground railroad here. I don't particularly care for most of the people here, love the imported ones (but that has it's rare exceptions). It's a 50/50 deal.
yankeeluv.
