Black surfers find rejuvenation at ‘A Great Day in the Stoke’
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 28, 2022
Once he’s enveloped in the barrels of the Pacific’s blue-gray waves, Nathan Fluellen feels one with God.
The chilled water, while untamed, supplies a transcendent energy to anyone who dares ride its swells. They say Black people don’t like the water, but bucking that stereotype has continued to propel Fluellen back onto his surfboard and into the ocean.
“It fits my ethos of something new every day and something different, a new challenge,” Fluellen said . . .
