The Shambles,
To borrow a hip-hop phrase "My bad". I guess I have to begin to look at the BS topics. I hadn't done for some time. I'll check that thread out. Thanks.

Thanks also to McGrath of Harlow for those links. That's interesting. I've never been to any Carnival, but my daughter has been to Caribana in Canada three years in a row...

In reading back on these posts this morning, I note that Super Ted is the only Mudcatter so far who indicated that he is Black. Maybe there are other Black posters on Mudcat but they aren't interested in this topic. And maybe they don't want to acknowledge their race for whatever reason.

Yet, I think that one may have a different insight on subjects as a result of his {her}race/ethnicity. I also believe that individuals with different racial backgrounds are likely to have different experiences that could add to richness of the discussion here.

I sometimes think of how different some Mudcat discussions would be if a large percentage or the majority of posters were of African descent. As a minor example, I remember seeing a post on Greek songs or chants or some such title, and thinking "If there were more Black people from the USA writing here, that thread would be about African American Greek letter fraternity & sorority step chants." Of course, it was of no such thing...

Oh, well. You can't have everything. I repeat what I wrote on some other thread: I continue to come to Mudcat because of the high quality of information & resources on topics I'm interested in.

Now if I could only convince other African Americans I know who are interested in these topics to play pass the "N" word references and concentrate on what they can learn from the site and what they can share so that others might learn from them...

I'm trying.