Lancecastor
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This is a long weekend in much of Canada...mostly referred to as the Civic Holiday Weekend.
When I was a kid, it was called Natal Day to celebrate the hometown's founding.
Natal Day Weekend was also commonly called Coon Christmas in those years...because it was the one weekend of the year when black people moved about the entire city and not just their part of town.
Pickup trucks filled with black kids would descend upon the Natal Day Fairgrounds...for most of us, it was the only time we saw black kids up close in numbers.
At night, some would walk home and experience white teens in their dad's cars playing a game called Broom a Coon, where you'd whack a black kid with a broom from the passenger side window.
When I was a kid, it was called Natal Day to celebrate the hometown's founding.
Natal Day Weekend was also commonly called Coon Christmas in those years...because it was the one weekend of the year when black people moved about the entire city and not just their part of town.
Pickup trucks filled with black kids would descend upon the Natal Day Fairgrounds...for most of us, it was the only time we saw black kids up close in numbers.
At night, some would walk home and experience white teens in their dad's cars playing a game called Broom a Coon, where you'd whack a black kid with a broom from the passenger side window.