Gullah Gullah Island!
I found this article about the silence of Justice Clarence Thomas:
“In the past, the Georgia-born Thomas has chalked up his silence to his struggle as a teenager to master standard English after having grown up speaking geechee, a dialect that thrived among descendants of former slaves on the islands off the South Carolina, Georgia and Florida coasts.”
One word instantly caught my attention and I had to figure out what it meant: geechee. I hopped on over to wikipedia to figure it out.
From the wikipedia article:
“The Gullah people are also called Geechee, especially in Georgia.”
That’s right, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is basically from Gullah Island… sort of.
GULLAH! GULLAH! ISLAND!!!
If you have never heard of Gullah Gullah Island, it’s a fairly old Nickelodeon tv show from “back in the day” set in the unique community of Gullah Island.
By the way, what does “Binya Binya!” mean anyway. It seems that television taught kids to trust giant, costumed creatures, regardless of what they said. See Barney and Big Bird.