in toufl like it s slipping away. i think to a certain degree. especially like in hilton head, that whole beach area is black people. now you got a bunch of resorts and townhouse z and stuff like that. what tends to happen it people come in and buy up the land then actually you get priced out because of the high tax rate of your own land. wow, you can t afford the taxes you used to own it but can t afford the taxes. can t afford the taxes because they build a resort over here. wow. even though you own the land, your family owned it hundreds of years. yes. suddenly the taxes go up and can t afford to own your own land. exactly. yup just a bunch of brothers standing around talking property taxes. my dad would be so proud. everyone here is fighting to preserve the gullah culture.
languages are taut. that s always been my personal mission. when i started working with gullah geechee and promoting it preserving it i said i want it taught like any other language. i want to be so fluent in gullah that english is my second language. yeah. you got to think in gullah and translate back to english. wouldn t that be beautiful. i love my culture. i can tell. i love it. i can tell. what was life like growing up when you were a kid. different because my mother is white my father is full gullah. okay. my mother and father had previous marriages and got together and created us. 14 of us grew up on the farm. had you the full rainbow coalition. we do we work throughout the corridor to educate people about the cult here and how to promote and preserve it. economic sustain ability. help people with land issues,
fade to black, i ll be here for awhile. down to the river where john baptized three walked the devil in hell where johnny baptized me singing roll, johnny roll truly, i had an amazing time this week. the gullah people welcomed me to a home i didn t even know was my home. and the gullah proved yet again that black people in america are not one thing. sure, there are areas of the country that identifies black like oakland, and harlem be. but have you been to those places lately? they are changing fast. with the gullah s rich history of language and unique american
morning, i m almost done uncle johnny. almost done. fade to black, i ll be here for awhile. down to the river where john baptized three walked the devil in hell where johnny baptized me truly, i had an amazing time this week. the gulla people welcomed me to a home i didn t even know was home and the gulla proved yet again black people in america are not one thing. true, there is areas of the country that identify as black like oakland, detroit and harlem but have you been to those places recently? they are changing fast. with the rich history of language and unique american
while the gullah culture can be found in georgia and the lowcountry of south carolina, st. helena island is known as the center for the gullah culture and langue. sound of the kpun are the l and renowned geechee gullah ring shouters. get ready. . the ring shout is a religious ritual of song and dances traced all the way back to west africa. believed to be the oldest surviving african performance tradition in north america. they asked me to meet them here in front of the praise house. they trace their roots to annett bell up days where after working hard for free they would gather in these shacks to hang out cigarette the groove on of