Roxanna's Letter to her Son - Los Angeles Poverty Department

RFK in EKY, The Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project , is a series of public conversations and activities centered around the real-time, site-specific intermedia performance that recreated, on September 9th and 10th 2004, Robert Kennedy’s two-day, 200 mile “poverty tour” of southeastern Kentucky in 1968.
An Appalshop project directed by John Malpede.

Recreating Imbalance
A short description by John Malpede that describes the conceptual links between Agents & Assets and RFKinEKY.

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Roxanna's Letter to her Son

"I've got to finish this business-contract for my boss. I really need this job. Maybe, if I have time, I can type my son Brandon a letter."

Dear Brandon, just a few words to let you know that I miss you immensely.

And also to tell you how proud I am of you for going to school, continue your education. And for breaking the family curse as far as the men in our family going to prison and to jails.

I just want to let you know Brandon, that I think we should get some family counseling. That way you can talk to someone about your problems and any hurt that I may have done to you in the past. I want our family to become whole again, and heal the pain that it may have.

By the way, when I get my check on Friday, I'll bring some money to buy you some school clothes. If you're not there I'll leave it with your grandmother. Love, Mam.

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