With the Trump administration switching into anti-Catholic overdrive this week, I wrote about a time a hundred years ago when Catholic students from Notre Dame beat the shit out of the Klan. A feel good story for the ages. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...
Poster for Jalopy Theater's upcoming gala on April 23rd.
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I have not - but I've heard good things.
WOW!!!!!
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I think he's doing what he can to turn it into a doc series.
In some cases, I suppose it can't be helped - in lots of places across the country.
It should be a TV show!!!
Ah. Right. Yes.
Yes! As a Southerner from The ATL with roots in The Lowcountry, I could hardly believe my eyes. Most non-Black Americans know nothing about what he showed. It was glorious.
I can't imagine reading that book into a mic for 60 hours. They must have paid her in gold doubloons.
Yes, exactly. I need for the world to make that differentiation, though. They should know who we are and what we've built, in spite of it all.
How do you bring the property values down?
I think eventually, everyone does.
Honestly, it sent me running to history books to explain it all. Because that’s what history does best. For example, the Danes and the Swedes hold the world's record for the most wars fought between two nations. 1,000 years of conflict has got to leave some residue, right?
...and ghosts! Don't forget the ghosts! Overall, this weighty sadness permeated the air like a fine mist. I kept thinking it was everyone's broken dreams, piled up on the beach in a stack that's miles high - like broken lawn furniture.
I seriously had no idea there was so much of it until I started running around with Danes and Finns. I'm like, why is everyone down on Swedes?
No Jewish people in Sweden? Hmph. Welp, I'm grateful to live in NYC - which is not America, at all. Actually, I live in Harlem - which is not NYC.
Everything the world loves about America is because of Black people. So grateful that the art I make is truly appreciated internationally.
Swedes told me only Americans wear bright colors because they're loud and like to draw attention to themselves. And I'm like, calm down, its just a red acarf.
California is wonky. All that sunshine and it has to be the darkest, most isolating place I've ever experienced. Most of the time, it felt haunted.
That's funny. I've heard Norwegians say the exact same thing. 🔥
I wouldn't even begin to know how to start building a life there. I tend to take it on a case-by-case basis in terms of relationships. I've met Swedish musicians that are cool but most of the Swedes I know are Turks.
YES, deathly quiet. Their horror movies make a lot of sense, in that regard.
I'd like to believe that if I lived there, it'd be different. I'm not so sure it wouldn't be more of the same, on the low end: lots of subtle assumptions and presumptions, sometimes with a side of fetishism.
That's exactly what I've heard. My time there has been brief and sporadic, so far. And as a generative performing artist and a Black American, they weren't as closed to me as they are usually - which wasn't necessarily a good thing.
Oh, wow. I've heard interesting things about Stockholm. What was hard about it?
That's a good long while. Were you in Stockholm?
How long did you live in Sweden?