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Hellas Good
Wednesday, 16 November 2005

Mood:  happy
I had yet another amazing experience tonight, and I love the fact that these keep happening. Tonight was Tim Tyson's dialogue on his book Blood Done Sign My Name, and it was absolutely incredible. He is a native of North Carolina and has an intense history dealing with the racial issues that have plagued this state. His talk was so inspiring, and so awakening, I really wish he could have spent more time discussing his experiences. After he finished his prepared talk, he opened the floor for questions and had these really in-depth and incredible answers. Afterwards, I got in line to meet him, and since I haven't had a chance to buy the book, I got him to autograph my notes. During his presentation, he mentioned that he had spent several years living in Wilmington during his youth, and that he had co-written a project about the 1898 race riots, which are actually something I've been interested in for a long time. When i was in the eigth grade, Wilmington observed the centenial anniversary of the riots, and our school created these relief sculptures inspired by Rodin to commemorate the event. I was one of the people who helped design the relief tiles, and got to do a lot of research about the whole incident and the history of North Carolina during that time period-its very fascinating to read about what all our state government was going through, one of my favorite books is Cape Fear Rising, a history of the riots. I got to talk about the whole experience with him, and it was really interesting, he said his next project is probably going to be a book about the Wilmington riots, which will be incredibly interesting. Gotta go, Philongie needs something. ~RLM

Some quotes from Tim Tyson's lecture:

"I was produced by this history-I am a product of this history."

"Who we are is so much a product of who we have been."

"If we had remembered it was possible to turn to each other instead of on each other, maybe some of this wouldn't have happened."

"as we march forward through stereotypes"

"We're making history together, we're going forward, yet we're trapped in the river (the flow) of history."

in college "I hope you'll learn not just how to make a living, but how to make a life."

Posted by hellasgood05 at 00:01 CST

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