see below some excerpts from my favorite contribution to this thread.
Some where in my homepage, which is now so vast and colourful that I don't exactly
know where anymore and have not a print out of yet, there are references to the
difference between to be rooted and to be rooting; or to go along with robert Graves's
gender typification: (to not be ...merely? rooted but) do!!! rooting.
My homepage is so suffused with the hints, memories, fancies and 'premonotional'
daydreams about the way I interpret this root rite right of way routine that I need
say no more now (do I?).
---
http://members.tripod.com/~poetpiet/Blabsabs_Index.htm
4 Mb pics; 5 Mb text (colourful throughout) by palpable piet
who's arch enemy pith to pinches punching paraclete peter comments:
"not bad for a dabbler"
http://huizen.dds.nl/~poetpiet (half an Mb in Dutch; de rest bij tripod)
On Sun, 2 May 1999 10:43:46 (Robert) Bruce Reyburn wrote:
>
>Interesting discussion on identity.
>
>Rather than "going back to where you came from", i encourage
>people to make good contacts with your actual surroundings.
>
....snip...... seriously
>consider the implications of the possibility that
>we could escape from the straight up and down
>categories imposed from Europe and find new
>ways of relating with our surroundings.
>
>Why is it that forces operate to inhibit the idea
>that you can join an Aboriginal religion, for example?
>What form of racism is operating here, and whose
>purposes and benefits does such a conceptual prison
>serve?
>
>My experiences do not entitle me to bring any
>land claim or seek any other benefit reserved for
>Aboriginal people. Rather, it requires me to adopt
>a respectful position as a sort of Younger Brother
>in relation to my senior or Elder Brothers who
>have been in this country since the beginning.
>
>Questions of identity are questions which
>can be resolved by negotiation between the
>parties, not by science nor by the State
>which has a vested interest in a particular
>way of seeing things and of defining relationships.
>
>In a peoples movement, we cannot afford to
>leave these vitally important matters to
>'experts'. We must tap into the very best
>part of our core experience and stay true
>to that voice - all the way down the line.
>
>Where do we come from, what is our
>true home, where do we fit into the scheme
>of things - from an orthodox Australian perspective?
>
>And thereby derive a creative synthesis resulting from
>the orthodoxy of First Peoples (thesis) and the
>introduced anti-thesis brought with Settler Peoples.
>
>We need not look overseas for these answers, since
>it is in Australian life that these matters must be
>resolved through lived experience - and rooted in
>acts fo geuine exchange of things of real value. It
>cannot be a mere intellectual exercise.
>
>Well, that's my two bobs worth anyway.
>
>In Songlines Solidarity
>
>Bruce
>2 may 1999
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