Marian's Blog

June: Caribbean American Heritage Month 2006

Props to our Caribbean cousins/sisters/brothers for Caribbean American Heritage Month 2006. Jasmyn Cannick has a good link on her site where she writes about Oakland, California Congresswoman Barbara Lee's 2005 proclamation, with a list of a few US folks of (recent) Caribbean descent/origin, like California's Mervyn Dymally, "the first foreign born member of the United States Congress, Marcus Garvey, Sidney Poitier, Colin Powell, Cicely Tyson, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Shirley Chisolm." The folks are even going to show us how to play cricket on the National Mall in DC. Do they plan to let women join in? More events and details at CaribbeanAmericanMonth.org site.

Happy Mother's Day weekend; Nikki and Debbie marry on Logo

It's a busy day. This post and its title transformed a few times as typepad goes through changes. Need a new server?? I'm inspired by a kind of fun show on Logo called First Comes Love in which Cannuck Scott Thompson (a "Kid in the Hall") plays wedding organiser to two ladies, Nikki and Debbie. Scott always seems to make it clear he's a Canadian and not one of us from South of the (northern) border. Anyway, each of the women has two children of her own, equaling four kids. I cracked up over Scott's nickname for Debbie's ex. "Captain Custody". He had a 'problem' with Debbie's children - to whom she gave birth, by the way - attending their own mother's wedding. Not nice behaviour. But they did. Both ladies like a singer named Lea DeLaria who surprises them by singing at their reception. Really a nice story. On the same channel gay Black American author E. Lynn Harris hosts a segment of "In the Life". Very informative. Happy Mother's day weekend to Mom, Ana, Gudger, Dora, Paola and Grace, my aunts and cousins, and my buddies - Sandra and everyone... to all of us. And oh yeah, for real, more later on France's May 10th slavery commemoration (previous post) - et bonne Fete des Meres.