Just a notion, readers:
"On beaches in New York’s Rockaways, there’s a new look among the surfers" by Michael Adno New York Times December 22, 2018
NEW YORK — Three years after Hurricane Sandy lashed the Rockaways, the boardwalk marched down the beach in broken segments as the public housing built under Robert Moses was hemmed in by condos. Out in the surf, not much changed as the bathymetry returned to normal, but the predominantly white, male crowd of surfers had.
Part of that shift happened when Louis Harris, 46, founded the East Coast chapter of the Black Surfing Association in 2016.
Surfers like Harris are carving out a space for themselves in the Rockaways, and are challenging the notion that surfing belongs to white men.
In 2014, 14-year old Marcell Dockery set a mattress on fire in his Coney Island apartment building. The blaze killed one responding officer, critically injuring another. When asked why, Dockery cited boredom. The response haunted Harris. That same year, Harris read in The Surfer’s Journal about Tony Corley, who founded the Black Surfing Association in 1975 in California. Corley’s departure point was assembling some sense of belonging as he felt like the sole black surfer in central California, and then in 2015, Corley’s story coupled with Dockery’s moved Harris to the point where he proposed creating an East Coast Chapter.....
Just lost my board as I got bored.
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I suppose they will have an article on an all white man's hoop league next week.
Whatever.
Did you give the money back to FEMA yet?
