Africatown

I even started a sub stack.

It's election day today and tomorrow I'll be sojourning to Africatown in Mobile, Alabama.

Africatown is the home of the descendants of the resilient founders who found themselves ripped from their lives in Africa back in 1860.

They were captured, shackled, smuggled aboard the Clotilda and brought into the Mobile Bay in Alabama.

Now, we'll be going down there to visit tomorrow.

So we're going to go over some information today.

We'll get into Egypt in the next episode.

It's been a very busy time for me with some really good family stuff, some travel, and preparing for the Africatown Sojourn.

The first bar, 35th and Mount Vernon, 1959, by a black woman.

But what I want to know is, how the heck does Africatown get honored before the Black Bottom? Africa town? I mean, have you guys went to Advance Auto Parts? They spilling oil in the sewer system.

It's a hundred Africans out there and it looked like the Congo.

The people can't even run their business.

2-1.

Leon Jones, born in Plateau, Alabama, lives down Mobile.

Hits to all fields.

2-1 pitch.

I want you to travel with me.

We'll be sojourning to Africatown in Mobile, Alabama soon.

Now, Africatown, that's the home of the descendants of the resilient founders who found themselves ripped from their lives in Africa back in 1860.

They were captured, shackled and smuggled into the Mobile Bay.

110 Africans survived the journey to America.

After emancipation, though, they created an African town here in the United States.

So join us as we visit Africatown.

We'll sail the Mobile Bay, we'll visit a bayou, and we'll meet the descendants of the founders of Africatown who live and thrive there to this day.

We did things like this in freshman seminar, though this is a much, much, much, much expanded concept.

But I thought about this for this week in terms of homecoming, because in 2018, before COVID, We selected a book, Barracoon, which we talked about and read in Nubia and had folks from Plateau, Alabama, from Africatown to come in, descendants of those who were trafficked on the Clotilde, to come in and be in conversation with us.

We were deep in COVID.

It was a beautiful thing to have all of the folks there in that conversation.

Anti-Blackness within the Latino community within LA and how bad it's been getting.

It's been bad, but the last stronghold was Africatown.

They're really fighting for their lives.

So I just wanted to know if y'all had paid attention, if y'all had any insight on that.

What?

No, we really aren't.

And to that effect, one of the things I am working on with Billion, who runs Africatown Marketplace, is the Fight to Save Black LA, the documentary, and just to expand into America.

And the reason why I want to share this is because you are so pent up down.

I mean, we could try looking up, look up that house on Plateau.

Plateau, also known as Africatown, is a historic community founded by former slaves in the north section of Mobile.

Mobile.You cool if we drive out there?

Out there?

Kluayyar has struck out four and walked one.

A ball to Jones, who was born in Plateau, Alabama, lives now in Mobile.

27 years old.

Strike.