Keith Rushing

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315 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 27 Jul

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How to Be a Better Human · How to understand your family history (w/ Keith Rushing) · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

I think it started to turn around maybe the last 30 or 40 years, but I mean, you can still hear people who have stereotypes or ridicule people who are Geetse, called the Geetse.

The culture just seems to be a beautiful culture, like, to develop this kind of, like, a very strong sense of family and values.

I think, you know, feeling spiritually connected to my ancestry, which I think if you grow up in a, you know, I grew up Episcopalian in a Christian family,

American culture, it's not something talked about or experienced.

So, I mean, I think that that's part of it for me.

And I think, and I think also when I go back, there's kind of an embrace of folks who are Gullah Geechee, who are from the island or who have ancestry there.

There's a, you feel kind of a connectedness and an embrace.

So I feel like there's a warmth that's still there in the culture.

And I'm still discovering, like I'm still kind of like learning more and meeting more people.

And I feel like it's kind of an evolving process.

Like my process of discovery never ended.

It's like I finished the book, but I'm still kind of learning and experiencing more.

I would say my grandmother was born.

You go up through, which I said was 1917.

You go up through the 1930s and 40s.

Hilton Head and a lot of these islands were seen as kind of remote backwaters by other people.

You know, here, for the folks who lived there and owned land, they were descended from the enslaved people who were enslaved.

These were former plantations, but it was also where their ancestors were born, where people, you know, loved one another and lived.

So I think there was a strong attachment to land, but in terms of

monetary value, it wasn't thought of something that was worthwhile.

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