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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 145204" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Sorry to seem so ignorant, but what's a Lumbee?</p><p></p><p>And Janet, maybe I'm thick but I didn't realise you had Indian heritage. That's amazing. I'm just a white mongrel... OK, a dark-skinned white mongrel. I remember a conversation I had with a friend who is Aboriginal (Murri) and said I envied her the access to a long and ancient lineage. She can always look at the land and say, "This is where I come from." I can't do that.</p><p>Her answer was telling. "There have to be some compensations."</p><p></p><p>In Australia, up near Nimbin (Australia's answer to Woodstock) we have white people living in teepees. A neighbour used to often have one (a teepee) in his front yard. I was amazed at just how spacious they are inside, when you stand outside they seem so small. I remember we packed about twenty people inside this teepee, all sitting around the wall, with a fire in the middle. The neighbour is into shamanic drumming, she lives some fantasy of what Indian culture was, rather than anything much resembling reality. And no, she's not Indian in any way - she's an Irish redhead!</p><p></p><p>We get some shock jocks here who should be dragged off the radio, but they're too powerful. What can you do, when a shock jock owns the radio station? One of our shock jocks clearly seems to view himself as powerful enough to control national politics - a king maker. He's done a number of wrong things but always seems to escape a full investigation. He was the one who was accused of using his radio show to "reclaim the beaches" which led to the Cronulla riots a few years ago, with fighting between Muslim-Australian and Anglos. Nasty stuff.</p><p></p><p>Why don't all these shock jocks go back to where they came from? (just an idle wish...)</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 145204, member: 1991"] Sorry to seem so ignorant, but what's a Lumbee? And Janet, maybe I'm thick but I didn't realise you had Indian heritage. That's amazing. I'm just a white mongrel... OK, a dark-skinned white mongrel. I remember a conversation I had with a friend who is Aboriginal (Murri) and said I envied her the access to a long and ancient lineage. She can always look at the land and say, "This is where I come from." I can't do that. Her answer was telling. "There have to be some compensations." In Australia, up near Nimbin (Australia's answer to Woodstock) we have white people living in teepees. A neighbour used to often have one (a teepee) in his front yard. I was amazed at just how spacious they are inside, when you stand outside they seem so small. I remember we packed about twenty people inside this teepee, all sitting around the wall, with a fire in the middle. The neighbour is into shamanic drumming, she lives some fantasy of what Indian culture was, rather than anything much resembling reality. And no, she's not Indian in any way - she's an Irish redhead! We get some shock jocks here who should be dragged off the radio, but they're too powerful. What can you do, when a shock jock owns the radio station? One of our shock jocks clearly seems to view himself as powerful enough to control national politics - a king maker. He's done a number of wrong things but always seems to escape a full investigation. He was the one who was accused of using his radio show to "reclaim the beaches" which led to the Cronulla riots a few years ago, with fighting between Muslim-Australian and Anglos. Nasty stuff. Why don't all these shock jocks go back to where they came from? (just an idle wish...) Marg [/QUOTE]
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