My mom, when young was put into boarding school, all her brothers and sisters were, she barely talks about it but I can tell it effected her in a negative way. Today, when we talked about the movie , Hawaiian: Legend of Eddie Aikau, my ears perked up when they were talking about civil rights in Africa and how they didn’t get those rights till early 1990s, it dawned on me that even though Africans were there first and made there homes there, the English didn’t care they wanted the beauty and the ways of these Africans. The only thing is they didn’t want Africans to enjoy it with them. These Caucasian people didn’t want different and didn’t want others of a different skin color to be better then them. This is with every colored person, not just in Africa but also in the Americas. We were thrust into these religions and were conformed into this English way of life. I don’t blame them, even though many of us were broken in the process. Like the saying goes, everything happens for a reason, it was tough but we are strong and look at us now, coming together and building relationships with others across the US.
Natives Will Always Be Strong. Yours Truly, Dani.
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Dani, brilliant post! I am glad that you are connecting the dots and recognizing the effects of colonization. AND the promise of healing.
Thank You! It sparked my interest when they talked about civil rights.
You should watch Mandela… I think that’s what its called. It’s about the apartheid struggle and how Nelson Mandela led his people to equality. He talks about how we can’t hate the “white” people because hate doesn’t cure hate. But that was a really difficult thing for the natives to wrap their minds around because there was just so much strife and violence that they had to undergo that was instituted by the “whites”. Very similar struggles. But love is the answer… “at least for most of the questions in my heart” (jack Johnson) haha
Thank you for sharing a personal part of your family history. It’s heart warming to see such a mature and positive response to such a painful and all too often angering subject.