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Black
Power in High Point, North Carolina
By Kimberly Koerber-Bauer-Koerber
Remember the
old game played as a kid called “Ghost in The Cellar”? This is where kids were in the basement, with
a vivid imagination, looking at old rolls of Christmas wrapping paper, boxes,
and other things in a dark or dimly lit basement and then imagined this to be a
ghost or some scary thing.
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High Point, North Carolina’s version of
the game involves a “Black
Power” matron type hiding in the
basement, or sorting room of The
Carolina Thrift Store,
located at 2645 N Main Street, High Point, NC. In this game set up, of course, for
entertainment purposes only, a large
Black matron, who is about 400 pounds in size and about 6’3” tall comes out
of her ‘basement’ screaming and yelling at people who take the ‘bait’ near
her lair. The bait is tidbit h’ordvres
set on a table near the Mother –of-Pearl keyed piano at the back of the
store. The scary woman, who is an
example of “Black Power” is the form of a person, is what people can look at
and be educated by in regard to what “Black Power” really is about. Black Power, the political theorem is no
longer just a political theorem but is in full force in many cities including
Detroit Michigan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Columbus, Ohio. No wonder people are intimidated and stay
to fight or run away as this type of thing stirs up the fight or flight
response.
In Addition to the educational
Black Power game, and the beautiful but forbidden piano and snacks in the
back of the store, The Carolina Thrift Store also has a menagerie of other
interesting, unusual, and unexpected items and are open during regular
business hours and are available by phone at (336) 885-4488. Reality Theatre there is not being
sponsored by "Players Theatre", but the “Black Matron” there
appears to be a ‘regular person’ with a regular job.
Thanks, “The
Carolina Thrift Store” for
providing “Reality
Theatre” to get people to think more about
complex political situations and understand how other people feel when
entrapped by or overpowered by “Black Power” in particular.
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