“The Long Song,” PBS has a new video and it is a kick in the pants. It is a perfect series for the BLM movement but does not take place in the US and can be hard to watch. This series especially hit home to me as when in Seattle we became great friends with a Jamaican woman, Claudia, and her daughter who lived in our neighborhood. Claudia was from Kingston and we learned a lot about that country. She invited my late partner to go to Jamaica to celebrate ‘Carnival’ but it never happened. Claudia also made amazing rum cakes and sold them in a local chain store, QFC. Another interesting item was the term ‘pinkney.’ My aunt, who was a second mother to me had a nickname Pinkey but she spelled it Pinkney. Now I see it being used in this film as a reference to the slave’s children. Patois: Whoofa pickney dat?
English: Whose kid is that? English Translation child or children Makes me curious why my aunt had that nickname.
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