tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3887847079702315563.post8379136477664279369..comments2024-01-06T10:30:29.472+10:00Comments on Hellena Post - Creatrix: Ode to Sovereignty Day....Helena Posthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07442132139130785495noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3887847079702315563.post-1866501874450058272018-02-24T10:40:17.591+10:002018-02-24T10:40:17.591+10:00I love you so much Sharman, and truly appreciate y...I love you so much Sharman, and truly appreciate your beautiful words here :) Thank you for your story!! <3Helena Posthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07442132139130785495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3887847079702315563.post-32903139791728931762018-01-28T08:03:57.881+10:002018-01-28T08:03:57.881+10:00As a whiter shade of black myself (my ancestors ar...As a whiter shade of black myself (my ancestors are Aboriginal and also white fellas from across the seas) I thank you for your story. When I went in search of my black roots a decade ago, I was shocked at how much I didn't know. I come from a direct lineage of black victims and white perpetrators in this country - my Aboriginal great great grandmother had her baby stolen from her by the baby's father, my white great great grandfather who raised that baby as the child of his and his white wife. With my white skin, blue eyes and blonde hair, I have only ever felt accepted, welcomed and embraced by the black fellas of this country and I feel so very privileged to now be in touch with the black fella blood that still flows in my veins and which bubbles up through my white skin like the sweet water from a wellspring coming up through the earth to slake my thirst. <br /><br />My whiter shade of black bones wail for the brown-skinned babies who have been, and are still being taken away from their families. I stand in solidarity with them and shake my metaphorical fist at the propaganda that would have me believe that the black fellas of this land are anything less than remarkable, brilliant, dazzlingly sensitive and intelligent, and that they are my brothers and sisters. <br /><br />On Australia Day I celebrated my ancestors from this and other lands. I cried for their struggles. As an original person I came here through the Dreaming eons ago - as white fella my ancestors arrived here on the first fleet. I am indigenous and non-indigenous to this land and I give thanks for its benevolence and trust of me and my family - all the colours that we are.<br />Thank you for your radical trust Hellena - only way to go...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18414064115973080134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3887847079702315563.post-85431855430309278322011-02-06T10:52:09.388+10:002011-02-06T10:52:09.388+10:00Kat, what awesome feedback, and the very best comp...Kat, what awesome feedback, and the very best compliment you could give me! I try real hard to not come across as a soap box thumping fundamentalist of any sort, and if that's what you get from it I'm wrapped:)Helena Posthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07442132139130785495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3887847079702315563.post-30141099373742409852011-02-01T12:54:07.413+10:002011-02-01T12:54:07.413+10:00Great stuff, as always Hellena, you are a fantasti...Great stuff, as always Hellena, you are a fantastic writer and so insightful. There's something so pure about your posts, never trying to talk anyone into anything, you just tell it like it is, and it works, it's so real. Beautiful!Katnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3887847079702315563.post-68990322839386242132011-01-29T08:25:26.866+10:002011-01-29T08:25:26.866+10:00Awww...Teresa you just say the most beautiful thin...Awww...Teresa you just say the most beautiful things!! Love your work too beautiful woman:) Thanks Allison and Ellie, and Clare.....it's weird isn't it. It's like we're all caught up in this collective collusion of The Emperor's New Clothes proportions!!! That goes something like "We're Australians!! We're all good blokes, and we give everyone a fair go, and we're into mateship, and the diggers won all those wars, and the outback folk are pioneers and hard but good at heart.......surely what I suspect and know deep down isn't true?! Surely we weren't complete bastards and evil and genocide spreading racists??" Which is where it all breaks down, and folk start talking about leaving the past in the past and just getting on with it now while they're thinking "please shut up, I really don't want to think about those bad things anymore"..... Or something like that anyway. And Madcap, thank you for your honesty, and I can relate to what you said. Have you ever seen an old black and white movie called The Gentlemans Agreement with Gregory Peck?? Well worth a look..and very illuminating...Helena Posthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07442132139130785495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3887847079702315563.post-17301448767953069342011-01-28T21:55:32.711+10:002011-01-28T21:55:32.711+10:00I feel odd, as a white person, even speaking up ab...I feel odd, as a white person, even speaking up about this issue, like I should just learn to sit in my corner and listen for a change. I was such a bigot towards our Canadian Native people when I was young, because I was raised in that atmosphere. Natives were people you were nice to, and felt sorry for, but they were "different", and they were definitely inferior. They should just be grateful for all we've done for them, after all. (Please understand, I'm just talking about where I'm coming from, not endorsing this point of view.) Even now in a less racist time and in spite of how hard I try to weed this stuff out of my head, I wonder how much I still tie into it. There's so much further to go in these matters, as we try to live together and treat each other with respect. I guess the best I can do is try, and keep getting up again when I fall into old traps, and hope for forgiveness.<br /><br />Thank you for a very thoughtful post.Madcaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07557763096456837657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3887847079702315563.post-66587597677374912682011-01-27T15:12:07.080+10:002011-01-27T15:12:07.080+10:00Thank you so much for posting this Hellena.
Your s...Thank you so much for posting this Hellena.<br />Your story is so important, for us all.<br /><br />It has both shocked and saddened me the treatment to Australia's Indigenous when I have visited places in Australia. <br />It is like 223 years has not passed at all.<br /><br />I have spoken a lot to my children lately about how the white men came to Australia. It is very important to Hub and I that they get a full education about this history and not the glossed over version we were taught in schools.<br /><br />Much love to you.Clarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14898998929180875867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3887847079702315563.post-60988237564495067232011-01-27T09:43:29.343+10:002011-01-27T09:43:29.343+10:00thank you darlin!thank you darlin!Elliecan Pelicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03983460541160090020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3887847079702315563.post-68890098482624337142011-01-27T09:39:12.633+10:002011-01-27T09:39:12.633+10:00beautiful, touching.. thank youbeautiful, touching.. thank youALlison Croftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3887847079702315563.post-47410726382829641542011-01-27T09:36:15.273+10:002011-01-27T09:36:15.273+10:00OH thank you Hellena for your words, your expressi...OH thank you Hellena for your words, your expression and your heart. What an important story that needs to be told and re told. I only wish it would filter into the spirits of those who are blinded by ignorance and fear.<br />Love your work gorgeous woman :) xxxxxTeresaMcDowellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10081235688103590863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3887847079702315563.post-49175100808537430262011-01-27T09:07:25.929+10:002011-01-27T09:07:25.929+10:00Yeah, much love back to you Meffa :) And thicklyg...Yeah, much love back to you Meffa :) And thicklygrownwithleaves....that's awesome!Helena Posthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07442132139130785495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3887847079702315563.post-17496354988101554132011-01-27T04:45:12.666+10:002011-01-27T04:45:12.666+10:00Goddess Bless You and Australia.
I learned a lot h...Goddess Bless You and Australia.<br />I learned a lot here today and I will carry it with me and spread it around.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3887847079702315563.post-79658040762718285092011-01-26T20:36:02.275+10:002011-01-26T20:36:02.275+10:00Right on Hellena! Much love. :)Right on Hellena! Much love. :)Meffanoreply@blogger.com