Reconciliation
This Country
Who's going to say
Sorry?
I am sorry that You have lost
Expanse Freedom Religion
But it is natural is it not
for people to explore and claim?
I hear the chanting mixed with earth
I know the connection: land and people
I feel the igorance ... history tests
Our Earth is One
The first people
are here to share
Are you ready to receive?
Who's going to say
Sorry?
I am sorry that You have lost
Expanse Freedom Religion
But it is natural is it not
for people to explore and claim?
I hear the chanting mixed with earth
I know the connection: land and people
I feel the igorance ... history tests
Our Earth is One
The first people
are here to share
Are you ready to receive?
posted by Anonymous at 7:46 PM
3 Comments:
On you Janaki!
How to reconcile oneself to an openness to difference and otherness when there is a lack of such openness in the (dominant, political) culture in which one finds oneself? That for me is the hard task of reconciliation at the moment. And I am only wronged in a small way (voiceless among the Machiavellian strategists) - in comparison to the magnitude and time of the Aboriginal people's having been wronged...
I agree, Doris. As usual, I am responding from my personal point of view. Can't seem to separate myself sometimes, from the many Indigenous Australians I know. Why doesn't it surprise me that you also might have some challenges to face in the system?!! Never give up - it's just so good that people like you are in there!
I was not so much thinking of personal challenges I face in the system - but I do love your support anyway!
I was suggesting that I was wronged in a small way in so far as that the view I take on Indigenous Australians doesn't get much mainstream airplay.
I think there is so much that is remarkable to their sense of time and place; so much that disturbs and disrupts our ways of thinking and theorising.
This from a window in to such a small amount of contact in comparison to yours.
In speaking of Machiavellian strategists I was thinking explicitly about John Howard shifting his stance on his Indigenous policies in the lead up to the election, and wondering what statistics made him think that would be a good pose to strut.
I so prefer your response - from a personal point of view, and from such a wealth of personal contact.
All strength to people like you - in the system. Here's hoping that old system has room for change!
Love and love
Diorissi
xxxx
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