Intrestingly enough I used to notice AAs from the city and other towns make fun of Gullah/Geechie folks in College. I dont think their culture is something appreciated outside of the low country or if you are into AA history.
People actually make a distinction between being “country” and being “geechie”.
People really underestimate the vast diversity in the differrnt cultures that fall under the AA ethnic umbrella.
No they made fun of them, because they were considered old fashioned and country as Hell. Black people that moved to the cities made fun of anything that they perceived as country. Being Country and being Gullah are not separate, because almost all AAs have a connection to NC, SC, Georgia and Virginia. They just moved inland to other Southern States, but that Country talk is from those areas.
My mother used to make fun of my grandmother, because of how my grandmother spoke. My mother moved to Chicago from Tennessee, so when she came back to Tennessee to speak with my grandmother she used to complain about my grandmother speaking a bunch of broken English. Well my grandmother and the other older people were difficult to understand, but once you were around them you figured out what they were saying.
Geechees are from Georgia. They are Gullah people that live near the Ogeechee River. I don't remember any Black person ever being upset being referred to as Gullah, but if you called them Geechee then you would have to fight them. That was an insult.
As a kid
