but what are some sundown towns do y’all know of? like if someone were to do a cross-country trip, what are some towns they should absolutely not go through?
Small towns in south ga and noth fla
Ga: Jonesboro, tifton, Albany, valdosta, Macon
Fla: Gainesville, Perry, Madison, Marianna, Quincy, Jefferson county, hell I wouldn’t stop in Tallahassee either
Texas: Vidor, Orange, Deep Santa Fe
Texas: Jasper & Lumberton
I’m from Albany and recently the police beat up a young brother for no reason. They were attempting to say he had drugs but he of course had nothing.
If you go to Stone Mountain and find yourself on the trails close to night leave because they still have active Klan rallys up there
I was driving through north Florida during the day and I felt uncomfortable
The Negro Motorist Green Book was guide for black folk traveling in the 60s. It’s gives a breakdown of sundown towns. 50 years later, I’m sure it’s still relevant.
I feel like the Deep South is just a gamble.
Ohio…just in general
Central Florida, especially the little towns. If you must stop to pump gas, pay away the pump and get outta there asap
Once you get out of St. Louis county start being careful.
St. Genevieve, MO is definitely a no go for me if I’m traveling south.
If traveling in Louisiana stay away from small town with low speeding zones. If you are to go into those please drive the speed limit and don’t stop for gas. You will get a ticket for tint of your car. If your military I pay you drive the speed limit and don’t have a military tag. Get gas in the daylight.
For Georgia: stay away from Stone Mountain during non-busy season because the KKK has rallies on the weekends. For Gwinnett County stay out of Loganville, Grayson, Lawrenceville, and Snellville. Anywhere in the vicinity of the Mall of Georgia after business hours.
Clayton County and Henry County are also terrible because the cops in Morrow, Forest Park, Jonesboro, McDonough, Eagles Landing, etc. are ALL racist and they do camp out waiting to speed trap people so be wary on I-675.
If you can, just stick to major interstates for your road trip, do the speed limit in “open” areas where you’ll be tempted to speed because cops live to camp in those types of places.
For Virginia just…stay on I-95.
In California (yes, California): Redding definitely isn’t a place for anything more than gas (especially if you’re a woman or female presenting), but be extra wary of the surrounding areas (Anderson, Cottonwood, and Central Valley, recently renamed City of Shasta Lake).
Fans of Danny Kaye will probably enjoy this musical comedy, although it is hardly his best work and it lacks the energy and sparkle of his better films, like The Kid from Brooklyn, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and The Court Jester. Despite a healthy amount of corniness and some jokes that run on too long, Wonder Man offers an unusual form of entertainment by showcasing Danny Kaye in dual roles as twin brothers who are complete opposites in demeanor and choice of profession. “Buzzy” Bellew is a loud, flashy extrovert who runs an exciting Manhattan hot spot called the Pelican Club (a stand-in for the real-life Stork Club), while Edwin Dingle is a brilliant but shy bookworm who spends all day, every day in his local library, absorbing tome after tome in an effort to write his own encyclopedia of world history.
Although Buzzy and Edwin have not seen each other in over a decade, they have the special type of connection that twins often possess. This bond turns out to be supernatural after Buzzy is killed by a pair of hitmen (Allen Jenkins and Edward Brophy), out to get him because he witnessed a murder committed by mobster Ten Grand Jackson (Steve Cochran); from beyond the grave, Buzzy contacts Edwin and convinces the skittish sibling to impersonate Buzzy just long enough to convincingly testify for the New York DA and put Ten Grand in jail. (And that’s just the start of the story!)
Several romances bounce around throughout the narrative: Buzzy is engaged to adorable showgirl Midge Mallon (Vera-Ellen), who is simultaneously loved from afar by Buzzy’s business partner, Monte Rossen (Donald Woods); at the same time, Edwin is sweet on his local librarian, Ellen Shanley (Virginia Mayo), who is totally baffled by the changes that the formerly quiet young man undergoes when Buzzy inhabits Edwin’s body. Additionally, a bunch more character actors make appearances in Wonder Man: S.Z Sakall, Otto Kruger, Natalie Schafer, Huntz Hall, Gisela Werbisek, Luis Alberni, Cecil Cunningham, Mary Field and Jack Norton all show their faces at various points.
Wonder Man is consistently engaging, but I’ve never been a fan of Danny Kaye’s extended musical-comedy sequences, the ones that seemingly go on forever with weird noises and facial contortions. This film’s key example of such absurdism is the “Otchi Tchorniya Number,” a riff on the classic Russian theme that involves every possible permutation of vocal acrobatics as modified by Kaye’s lyricist wife, Sylvia Fine. I appreciate Danny Kaye’s unique comedic presentations, but all the same I’m always glad when the lengthiest performances have ended. I also felt distinctly uncomfortable while watching the film’s first musical number, “Bali Boogie,” in which Kaye, Vera-Ellen and the Goldwyn Girls do some delightful dancing to a song filled with costumes and language representative of the era’s usual stereotyping towards cultures outside of the US. There’s a lot to love about Vera-Ellen’s dancing in Wonder Man, but I would prefer not see her and Kaye pretending to be Indonesian for a few minutes’ cheap laughs.
Coconuts have only been in the Caribbean for 500 years. They just….floated on over from Asia and took root. That’s…hilarious.
Wait really? I always thought they were if not native at least brought over on purpose
Right??? I’m watching this nature doc and when the narrator said that I nearly spit my drink giggling. They’re remarkably buoyant and just bob their way to a new shore. So carefree. Truly a fruit destined to be in the Caribbean.
Migratory Cocoanuts 