In all the other tragic ways the pandemic has wreaked havoc, what we’ve lost in our social lives will remain too large a part of the memory.
If you like a good rant, I’m your man.
Humor for the twisted mind—on Medium
Another post on Medium—I have no idea why this popped into my head a few weeks ago, and I was curious to see where it might lead.
Evans’ Rag
Vol 3 Issue 7
Pharrell Williams arrives for a screening of the film “Hidden Figures” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on Dec. 14, 2016.
photo by NASA/Joel Kowsky
The Black Church
Tuesday night, we watched Louis Gates Jr.’s show ,The Black Church, on WETA, following his weekly Finding Your Roots, which was enough Gates to last the week, heh, heh.
D asked if I knew of Louis Gates Sr–ba dum tiss.
One of the two subjects for Finding Your Roots was Pharrell Williams. I mention him because the history of his family going back to slavery was well enough documented to make him need to go off camera. In the next scene Gates works with him to get some of the best documentary on TV.
Some of Gates’s guests either don’t have the history, or don’t engage with it, but in Williams’s case, Gates found both a stirring story, beginning with his last name being that of his ancestor’s slavemaster. I’m here to testify like a Southern Baptist.
Pharrell Williams is an articulate subject who chose his words thoughtfully in spite of his anger at learning what his ancestors had endured.
Worth watching, even if you don’t know the dude.