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Jun 6, 2020 · Sharon Schaffer delivered a powerful speech before joining the city of Santa Monica for a paddle out in memory of black lives lost to police brutality. #BlackLivesMatter . ...more.
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Aug 31, 2021 · Sharon Schaffer, the first Black woman to become a pro surfer, doing tai chi at Venice Beach, Calif. Ms. Schaffer spoke to a group of surfers in 2020 about racism: “It’s been a battle to ...
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Three weeks of protests over Floyd's death have been a time of atonement for many white Americans. Surfing has a lot to atone for. The sport in a rapidly diversifying U.S. is still seen as predominantly white despite its origins in Polynesia. Historian Isaiah Helekunihi Walker of Brigham Young University-Hawaii said the state's colonizers and their...
As Hollywood's infatuation with surfing drew legions to the beach in the '60s, many surfers headed to the nonwhite world for uncrowded waves. The mid-'60s film "The Endless Summer" exposed a vision of the surfer as a laid-back transient but also as a conquerer from the West who had the means to treat foreign lands as a playground. Scott Laderman, a...
Through the 1960s and into the '70s, surfing was a somewhat libertarian endeavor marked by long hair, marijuana use and a wayward spirit. Keith Plocek, a University of Southern California assistant professor who has taught surf journalism, said the predominant image of a surfer is a "free spirit" for whom the responsibilities of life "can't hold me...
In the 1980s and '90s, the Los Angeles coastline was home to the Mexican Surf/Skate Association and the Black Surfing Association. In the Venice neighborhood, surfing culture collided with hip-hopas locals dressed like cholos and spray-painted Chicano-style graffiti in the name of keeping out nonresidents. Home-bred surfers sometimes hazed white ou...
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Jun 10, 2020 · But the call to action resonated deeper than justice for Floyd’s murder; it was a rallying cry, advocating for racial equity across the board, and specifically within the surf world.
Jun 15, 2023 · Pleasure Muse: Sharon Schaffer. Tantalizing Trivia. She is the first Black woman to become a professional surfer and some of her work was featured in the opening of the Smithsonian African-American History Museum. She was a pioneer as a stunt double in Hollywood.
Awesome interview with black women surfers Sharon Schaffer, Mary Mills, and GiGi Lucas on the True Conversation podcast by Volcom.
Aug 16, 2023 · Star-studded true crime series 'Painkiller' is a true story: Richard Sackler and the Sacklers are real (and rich), although Purdue Pharma is bankrupt.
