Okay, it was a long four days, and so I just didn't have time to do my writing. But here's a nice little compilation video of the Eight Second Rodeo that has come to Portland, I think, for the last four years over Juneteenth weekend. It brings rodeo culture, which has historically been a big part of Black culture. Black people are from the country—Black Americans, I should say, the country people who moved to the city by necessity, fleeing a terroristic state in the South to not so much a promised land in the North.
And this is not a situation where, as some people think, it's cosplay. This is a return to roots, a return to, you know, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, you know. And so it's a wonderful celebration of Black rodeo culture, and it's just a lot of fun. We'll pick up writing tomorrow.
