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FocusLBK Show SE1 EP21: Real Black History in My Own Family

Indian Chiefs, Murder, and Panthers, Oh My!

Hey, what’s good LBK? As I know you know, the Stronger Together Mixer and the Black Business Expo are coming up this coming Friday and Saturday. The mixer is at the Hillside Cafe, and the Expo is at Mae Simmons.

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Also, the Kwanzaa Celebration will be taking place later that same evening, in the same place. This is going to be a real good time. This is going to be a community celebration of traditional values, marked by singing, dancing, spoken word.

The Hub City Street Hoops competition looks like it will be dope. Come watch a basketball battle royale between local ballers and the LPD and LFD.

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Words from the Elders

This weeks’ word from the Elders comes through my family, down 130+ years from my Great, Great, Grandmother to the present day.

I believe this is my great, great grandmother Dorcas Mayes.

She told my my grandmother, Dorothy (Parker) Gary a story about a mystical beast called a Mexican Scobee that laid siege to her family’s little farm, killing dogs and terrorizing one and all. Decades later, Grandma Dorothy told me the tale.

Speaking with my 2nd Cousin Tommy Parker, and looking at some of his documentation, I realized this very same tale is most likely true, and is echoed almost word-for-word in a history book called, “The Last Commanche Chief”.

There is always some doubt and uncertainty when you are looking back through the mist of memory, but this synchronistic discovery lifts my spirits, and encourages me to keep seeking.

Here is the Old-Tyme Radio Style show I made some years back, dramatizing this historical tale of terror and tenacity.

SWD Bonus: Mexican Scobee

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October 30, 2023
SWD Bonus: Mexican Scobee

This post contains an old-Tyme radio style production of “Mexican Scobee”, the true tale about a wild beast that ravaged the small town of Bryan, Texas. My paternal Grandma, Dorothy Parker, was a huge influence on my life. Although she passed from this life in 1999, her spirit nourishes me even today.