The Institute (協会)

Family Reunion Time

(This photo is from the Midwest Regional Black Family Reunion which meets this year in Cincinnati, Aug 17-19).

I'm off this weekend to the 'ol family reunion in North Carolina. Mine won't be as large as the National Black Family Reunion in Washington, D.C. Sept. 8-9, but it might be close. Since my family does not really have any drama broadly but the key themes, as usual, will be:

(1) stories of how racist white people are/were in the South and North (especially New York city and state) with the concomitant charge to never associate with whites outside of professional settings because they cannot be trusted; (2) I may hear more stories again of my two uncles who were severely beaten by racist whites in the south, one in the Mississippi and the other in North Carolina (with a golf club to the head, severely effecting his motor skills; (3) church talk--lots of Baptist and Pentecostal-type non-denoms (including preachers); I even have one uncle and his family who are Missouri-Synod Lutherans mainly because of all the churches they were visiting at one time, the Lutherans were the only ones that visited them in the hospital. Later, one of my cousins was a missionary in Japan for the Missouri-Synod for several years.

I blog again at some point next week.