NB Rebelles' Gumbooting Performance

NB Rebelles' Gumbooting Performance at the 2009 Benefit for the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). Gumbooting is a resistance dance born out of the South African mines about 100 years ago. The dance consists of stamping, clapping and slapping boots in rhythmic patterns. It was a way for workers to survive the isolation and oppression. Working in the mines was long, hard, repetitive toil. Talking was forbidden. White foremen beat and kicked black workers. Hundreds of workers were (and continue to be) killed every year in mining accidents.

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[galwaters]

I don't get it. You're progressive-liberal...marxist-­feminists?

[918129]

Good job girls! This is cool :)