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I have no idea how old your son is but I fear for him (and you) if you willfully curb his introduction to this event and expect that you are saving him from the world’s evils. You said: “Lord knows I used to love Crop Over and would wish to be able to involve my son. I say surprise because this most recent comment linked to you a more blinkered view than I would have previously expected. She loves to come home to enjoy the Kadooment partee and that’s great, but wha culture what?īy the way Pieces, how is it dat we ‘culture’ is only 50 years old…it start wid Independence, fah real!ĭonna, you have again surprised me with your BU comments. So help me understand how Rhianna is a cultural icon for CropOver or otherwise. So we can break out we calypsos, we food and all we Bajan behaviours to distinguish we culture from others!īut the lewdness, crude talk, semi and fully naked painted bodies and the other brazen sexual behaviour is just as ‘cultural’ to Brazil, New Orleans, T&T, Aruba, DR and everywhere else they have one of these similar local celebrations. For all ah we it’s tourism revenue and revenue from the additional consumption of various goods and services. Otherwise the wukking up on the street is to incite pleasure to oneself or some partner so that is purely hedonistic, nothing cultural bout dat.Īnd we Kadooment party also means the same thing as Carnival in T&T or Brazil or as Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Kadooment dancing is cultural if it’s an artistic demonstration that is part and parcel of the extravaganza.
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Our Barbados Crop Over is a ‘grand extravaganza & partee’ held of course to celebrate the end to the hard labor and toil of the sugar-crop…remember the old mantra: Burn Mr.
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So, David this extravaganza definitely has our unique Bajan characteristics to make it part of our culture. “When I see the parade now - the mardi gras, the floats and everybody is partying, and there’s all these commercial floats and advertising,” Shumsky explained, “it’s a little bit upsetting and a little bit sickening that we have lost that feeling of that first march that was just incredible - that we were out of the closets and into the streets.Pieces and David, interesting commentary as always when the question of ‘Culture’ is debated. Tim Fitzsimons / NBC NewsĮllen Shumsky, an original member of the early LGBTQ activist group Gay Liberation Front, was part of the Christopher Street Liberation Day march in 1970, and says it was the first time she felt she could “step out of my closet and be proud.” Shumsky, who now supports Reclaim Pride's efforts, said she’s disappointed in what the official NYC Pride March has become. Colin Ashley, a Reclaim Pride organizer, said the Queer Liberation March is a protest of the over-policing of NYC Pride and “the selling off of pride to over 150 corporate floats.” Ellen Shumsky, a veteran Gay Liberation Front member, speaks on behalf of the Queer Liberation March in Sheridan Square, New York City on May 14, 2019. The alternative march is the result of years of tension between members of the Reclaim Pride Coalition and Heritage of Pride, the nonprofit that produces the official NYC Pride event.