>>12931665For me watching Buck Breaking with my family was a nice way to reconcile with our past.
You see, my grandparents moved to Minnesota but their kin before them were from Georgia. They weren’t slave owners but a couple generations were unrivalled seal breeders. They bred harbor seals and trained them specifically for detecting the aroma of an unbroken buck’s virgin keister. They could track a buck clear across two hundred nautical miles and tree even the fastest and strongest buck quicker than you can say “B-B-C.” Family legend says that the biggest male in the litter was always trained to cornhole a buck on command but I wonder if that’s really true or not. The family letters mention you could say “Rufus, break that buck, break him good!” and old Rufus would have that buck just where he wanted like it was nothing.
That breed is more than likely long gone and watered down after generations of outbreeding but I wonder if it’s tendencies are laying quiet in some seals in the Georgia area. Like a seal with pointer in it that suddenly points out of nowhere. I pity the buck that comes across one of these seals especially if the words “break buck” are uttered within earshot. That unfortunate black boy’s o-ring would be stretched and snapped before he could even think about bucking that pinniped off him.
