![]() ![]() As a byproduct of unified protests, we see revealed through conversations and storytelling the otherwise unseen harrowing conditions of individuals who may be victims of systemic inequalities … and people imprisoned by “the very circumstance of their birth.” ![]() Today, as Occupy movements and uprises saturate the news, more and more people believe their voices, combined with those of others, can create change. In a place where people outnumber jobs and racial tensions pulse through the coastal history, locals on Sapelo wonder if the increase in property taxes signals a kind of forced evacuation from their homes and, inevitably, from their culture. Most recently, property taxes on Sapelo soared, leaving locals buried under bills. Recently, the New York Times reported on Sapelo Island, off the coast of Georgia, one of the few places inhabited by a people called the Geechees.ĭescendants of slaves, the Geechees once populated the island’s shoreline, but have been progressively pushed inward as affluent people who want a home on the water purchased choice island lots. I don’t think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they were imprisoned by the very circumstance of their birth.” – Pat Conroy, The Water Is Wide ![]() “Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. ![]()
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