![]() The obsession with the Black athlete or tanning beds, lip-fillers and Brazilian butt-lifts makes sense once we understand that it is only the body that is wanted. Gordon explains that the same relationship to blackness exists today, when the Black body is fetishised but only if the mind is subdued. Once Obama demonstrated he posed no danger to whiteness his body became a fetish, an empty symbol of progress The enslaved were not permitted to read, write or to think, for fear that they would rise up and overthrow their so-called masters. But the idea that those bodies had minds and were fully human has sparked terror ever since we were shackled to ships. The reason there are so many of us in the west is because we were used as beasts of burden to build the modern world. ![]() Gordon reminds us that Black bodies have never been a problem. ![]()
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We were 9 or 10.” The Woods family band played at community events, such as dances and fundraisers.Īlmost everyone was up dancing. We weren’t very old then, but everybody was up dancing. We’d ride the toboggan down to the dance hall, play crib, then make some music. “We used to load the toboggan with the guitars, accordion, and a violin. Pat Woods was quite young when he started playing at the Alta Lake dances with his family. When the one room schoolhouse was built in the 1930s it doubled as a community hall where regular dances continued to be held. Dances featuring the Woods family band helped raise money for the first Alta Lake School, which children Helen, Pat, Jack and Kenneth Woods attended. 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