Learned Behavior Was Our Savior Once Jesus Failed Us

Boy, these black folks, they sure do seem cavalier about the law, huh? I wonder where THAT came from?

   The little-known history of the maroons, slaves who escaped from their plantations and set up secret communities in the swamps, is coming to Harlem.

Sylviane Diouf is set to discuss her new book, “Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons,” Thursday at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Thousands of slaves created secret maroon communities, mostly in the south, after they ran away.

Staying alive was a constant struggle.

“They would raid farms and plantations to get food and other items,” said Diouf, a curator at the Schomburg Center who has won awards for her previous books about the last African slaves brought to America and Muslims who were enslaved in the Americas.

Some were so secretive, they built homes underground.

“You have all this creativity and resourcefulness by people who wanted to be free,” Diouf said,...

I'm starting to feel the same way about black "creativity" myself, since whites - still - seem so unconcerned with their own,…