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Old 10-01-2011, 12:52 PM
 
Location: The Bay
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This fesitval is only running today from 10:00-4:00 PM. If you're at all interested, you should come... this may be the last year of the festival due to a smaller city budget for festivals and parades. It celebrates the uncelebrated history of black cowboys in the west coast... it is the only celebration of its kind in the world. It starts in Defremery Park in West Oakland, runs through downtown and returns to the park where a festival will go on until 4:00.

 
Old 10-01-2011, 01:02 PM
 
Location: Way,Way Up On The Old East Coast
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Greetings ,

Interesting stuff indeed !

I've never heard of anything quite like it. Black fellers ah ridin around on hosses an all !

Gosh Almighty Y'all ... I'll jest bet ya that these here blighters be some classy folks !

Good Stuff ! Cheers / Old Sgt. Lamar

P.S. ... That bearded black feller in the front sort of reminds one of a "Gabby Hayes" cowboy movie type ! HArrrrrrrr !
 
Old 10-01-2011, 01:46 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Very cool Nineties Flava. I attended a few years ago and loved it.

Oakland and the East Bay in general has a pretty good number of African Americans into horses, this goes back quite a while.
 
Old 10-02-2011, 02:12 AM
 
Location: Oakland, CA
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Darn! I totally forgot this was happening and went to Oaktoberfest in the Dimond.
 
Old 10-02-2011, 04:31 PM
 
Location: SW MO
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Is there a White Cowboy Parade anywhere or it that considered discriminatory?
 
Old 10-02-2011, 05:38 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Is there a White Cowboy Parade anywhere or it that considered discriminatory?
What a strangely heavy-handed, politically-charged comment to an otherwise light and easy thread.
 
Old 10-02-2011, 08:08 PM
 
Location: The Bay
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Is there a White Cowboy Parade anywhere or it that considered discriminatory?

Wow, talk about petty.
 
Old 10-02-2011, 08:40 PM
 
Location: Oakland, CA
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Is there a White Cowboy Parade anywhere or it that considered discriminatory?
Do you also post comments on the cherry blossom festival? *rolls eyes*
 
Old 10-02-2011, 08:48 PM
 
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Why some of the negative posts? I look at this as a celebration of a heritage not often discussed in school so easily. I'm Black and I never learned about such African-American cowboys like Bill Pickett, or that 1/3 of the cattlemen of the West were people of color while I was in class. I learned about this when I went to the library.
 
Old 10-02-2011, 10:35 PM
 
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What a strangely heavy-handed, politically-charged comment to an otherwise light and easy thread.
Did you notice his screen name?
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