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8Song begins… you may want to pick it up later thanthis…THIS CEREMONY IS BEING HELD TOCONSECRATE A SLAVE CEMETARY.AS THEY BEGIN WALKING TO THE BURIALSITE, ANCESTORS OF SLAVES JOIN THOSEREPRESENTING BLACKS WHO FOUGHTWITH THE UNION. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTSWALK WITH THOSE OLD ENOUGH TOREMEMBER SEGREGATION.(MUSIC BREAK HERE)THE GROUP MAKES ITS WAY THROUGH THEWOODS AND UP A HILL, AND PEOPLE BEGINLOOKING FOR NAMES THEY MIGHTRECOGNIZE.“…we give thanks and praises to the Supremeenergy of the Universe that gives us what we need tosurvive and to move forward as a people…” (hepours water) “Ashay, ashay.”“…they believe that not only is our cemetery 300years old, they believe it’s ten thousand years oldbecause we took over from the Creek Indians.”IT IS A SOLEMN OCCASION, FLOWERSPLACED PURPOSELY ON EACH SITE. SOMEOF THE ARE GRAVES MARKED ONLY WITHA FLAG PUT THERE BY GEORGIA STATERESEARCHERS.JOHNNY WAITS HAS AN ENTIRE FAMILYHERE.“This is what the slaves got. This is it. They got arock.“I saw a tombstone down there. It was so© 2012 GPB Media http://www.gpb.org Georgia Outdoors
intriguing. It looked just like a block of granite andit looked like somebody carved out the name John.”“Yeah, isn’t that wonderful, isn’t that great? It’sover there. You talkin’ about my grandfather.”“No, there’s one down here too.”“Oh, okay, well, my grandfather’s the same way.“Look like they took a piece of rock out of thequarry and somebody took the time to put J.W.Waits on it.”“Well show me. I didn’t see it.”“Okay, it’s right over here.”“I didn’t see that one.”“Yep. That’s my great grandfather and alsoWarren Moon’s great grandfather.”“See?”“Oh my goodness, yeah.”“John Waits. W-a-i-t-s.”“You’re right. Somebody just carved it out.”“Yeah, isn’t that beautiful?”“It is. It is indeed.”“And these are his brothers. That’s Cofert Waits,and that’s Andrew Waits brother and his mother’sright here, Angus Waits. I mean Eliza Waits righthere. And we know this because my grand father’sall those was born in the 1900s early 18090s. Andall of my great uncles, they come to this cemeteryand they said, that’s my grandmother’s grave.That’s my uncle’s grave. And that’s how we knowsome of the stones. Ones that don’t have headstones– that’s how we know some of the graves.”“One thing that we really do value out here, ofcourse, I think you’ve see it, is very disparate groupof people from all different walks of life that arepart of the alliance and part of this effort. We liketo think of ourselves as multi-racial, multi-cultural,everybody’s part of the story here.“…the path connects the resources, but really theArabia Alliance is connecting the people and you’re9© 2012 GPB Media http://www.gpb.org Georgia Outdoors
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