Well, hello, everybody, and welcome to our Virtual Program tonight. My name is morgan burnham. The public manager here at the tennessee state. And we are thrilled to have Antoine Fletcher from the Great Smoky Mountains national with us tonight here tonight. And before we get started, a couple of things. Please remember to meet yourself and our program tonight will be record it so youll able to find that online within the next couple of days. Also at the end of our program we will have time for. So if you have question, please send that in the chat and joyce will be asking those at the end of the program. So, again, thank you guys joining us tonight. And i help me in welcoming Ranger Fletcher to our program. Oh, thank you very much. And thank you, everyone, tonight for joining again. My name is ranger. Im the science for Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the Appalachian Highlands learning center. Tonight, well, on of the National Park service. I just to welcome you all to your Afri
Well, hello, everybody, and welcome to our Virtual Program tonight. My name is morgan burnham. The public manager here at the tennessee state. And we are thrilled to have Antoine Fletcher from the Great Smoky Mountains national with us tonight here tonight. And before we get started, a couple of things. Please remember to meet yourself and our program tonight will be record it so youll able to find that online within the next couple of days. Also at the end of our program we will have time for. So if you have question, please send that in the chat and joyce will be asking those at the end of the program. So, again, thank you guys joining us tonight. And i help me in welcoming Ranger Fletcher to our program. Oh, thank you very much. And thank you, everyone, tonight for joining again. My name is ranger. Im the science for Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the Appalachian Highlands learning center. Tonight, well, on of the National Park service. I just to welcome you all to your Afri
Couple of things. Please remember to meet yourself and our program tonight will be record it so youll able to find that online within the next couple of days. Also at the end of our program we will have time for. So if you have question, please send that in the chat and joyce will be asking those at the end of the program. So, again, thank you guys joining us tonight. And i help me in welcoming Ranger Fletcher to our program. Oh, thank you very much. And thank you, everyone, tonight for joining again. My name is ranger. Im the science for Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the Appalachian Highlands learning center. Tonight, well, on of the National Park service. I just to welcome you all to your African American experiences in the smokies. This project is so important. Weve been working on it for so long and were finally to the point where were really just getting the information out to the masses and educating people on there. So tonight were going to learn about several different
Welcome to our Virtual Program tonight. My name is morgan burnham. The public manager here at the tennessee state. And we are thrilled to have Antoine Fletcher from the Great Smoky Mountains national with us tonight here tonight. And before we get started, a couple of things. Please remember to meet yourself and our program tonight will be record it so youll able to find that online within the next couple of days. Also at the end of our program we will have time for. So if you have question, please send that in the chat and joyce will be asking those at the end of the program. So, again, thank you guys joining us tonight. And i help me in welcoming Ranger Fletcher to our program. Oh, thank you very much. And thank you, everyone, tonight for joining again. My name is ranger. Im the science for Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the Appalachian Highlands learning center. Tonight, well, on of the National Park service. I just to welcome you all to your African American experiences in
About africanamerican fatherhood have been used in this conversation that we seem to be having about race for really hundreds of years. Well, i almost dont even know where to begin. Answering that question, though the topic of my talk invites the question. Part of what i think, what i find striking about baldwins mention there is just that part of the reference where he says the past has disappeared which is to say baldwin is saying black men have never really been able to have the experience of having fathers in the United States. And that is not, and that legacy and heritage is nothing new. And its really in some ways not a choice. Its an a tradition that had been imposed firstly by outside that created a kind of reality. That we still see today. That reality is the same reality. So much of what i see baldwin doing and why i want to keep coming back to that i picked the cotton line is that baldwin really insists if we want to take race seriously we have to collapse our sense of racia