Is It Really Ground Hog Amnesia Day ... 1788 to 2022? Moving Forward, My Hope Today Is That You Too Have Signed The Uluru Statement.
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| "Unsettled" A First Nation Australian Museum Exhibition Curated and Told By Indigenous People |
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| First Nation people resisted colonisation with many documented cases of brutal massacres |
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| read THAT disturbing 2019 stat again... |
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| Torres Strait Islanders Resisted European Invasion since The 1600's |
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| #alwayswasalwayswillbe |
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| countless stolen lives, children, land and freedoms |
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| The Exhibition calls out racism, ignorance and those still with blinkers on |
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| "Unsettled" First Nation Exhibition@Australian Museum. |
Do you want to learn more?
Are you REALLY a life long learner? (or a shill?)
Are you open to being wrong? More often?
Are you content with sitting comfortably with uncertainty?
Or are you anxious?
Pleasing people?
Or possibly you are content with being Kind?
And caring?
Also with informed, intelligent, broad, grounded boundaries like a mofo?
So as "Australia Day" or "Invasion Day" or "The Day of Mourning"
2022 dawns on January 26th, what is your ideal day?
Get on the piss with ya mates and cook a sheep and celebrate The Ocker Image?
Not give a stuff about learning a deeper and broader or an indigenous First Nations perspective?
Not even wanting to ask better questions, listen and get better informed.
About something you may have little knowledge of?
Embracing sensical shift you may not yet even considered.
I wonder?
Isn't THAT interesting?
What if I'm wrong?
When you know better, do better.
Possibly today you MAY;
- Let go (more) to (un)learn and create Fresh Space To Receive.
- create something new or different, outside any dissonant limited past perspectives?
- actually consider (not necessarily agree with or adopt...) a broader perspective despite any Ancient, Biased, Bigoted Rhetoric inherited from school or church or family or society.
- let go of (or even change) any unconsciously accumulated limits waaaaay back then.
Let Go To Grow.
Open To Receive.
The Future is Inside Us
It is NOT somewhere else.
To Heal The Past, collectively we integrate towards wholeness.
As a cohesive unified and healed society.
And that healing (broadening) starts with each Individual.
We move towards a broader perspective or a new fresh perspective or a more inclusive perspective.
This is Not an absolute Either/Or argument
This day is not to ignore ancient "His Story"
It is to call out any possible limits in what we have been sold, told or was once perceived as "The Only Correct History"
(possibly from limited dusty tombs you may have once been taught from)
This day is not to Live In The Past or revisit the trauma colonisation caused back then.
Is today a day of only mourning the loss of past ways, only remembering a very real invasion or only a celebration of resilience, connection, understanding and willingness to grow, shift and learn?
Are you a limited "only" person who can only see ONE with eye?
Only see ONE way?
Only feel ONE intention?
After all, aren't we all ONE already scream the woke folk ...?
Or are you a learner, prepared to BE wrong more often and willing to look with BOTH eyes open?
Isn't that (possibly uncomfortably confronting) perspective interesting...?
January 26th is a chance to check in on your own limits and ignorance, to address any antiquated limitations or assumptions or simply change your mind on any remaining innocent bias.
(which may cause internal pain if you are hanging on ... not giving a shit can hurt like that...)
January 26th asks me to question any remaining limited knowledge and ignorance due to upbringing or my parents or families views on indigenous cultures or non anglo or euro centric immigration.
Today was also once a local community celebration for immigrants to choose to become Naturalized Australian Citizens. Are you there yet? Have you decided? Or are you still a taker? A non participant? No voting rights? This may change if the day was less divisive. And attitudes were more contemporary... informed... and willing to change and grow.
Today, January 26th, is an opportunity for all Australians, First Nations, Australian Born and Naturalized Immigrants to reflect on any possibly remaining elitist, entitled, privileged or unconscious bias. Visitors can watch. Others can witness that truth and wonder why Australia is The Most Racially Diverse Nation on Earth as both multiculturalism and inclusiveness are strong post WW2 features of Australian Society. Let's trust this egalitarianism remains strong for all, especially First Nations, moving forward.
So is Australia Day really Amnesia Day as parodied by Juice Media below?
Or are attitudes shifting?
You choose your path. You live within your limits. Or otherwise.
More beers and bullshit white bogun sunburn fall over pissed brainless BBQs? ala 1950?
or possibly
A day to listen and reconsider?
A day to celebrate your own reflections?
A Day to Become A Better Life Long Learner?
AND still celebrate, have fun, share time with friends and stop any limited bigoted whine...
I already know mine.
To Keep Celebrating An Inclusive Shift.
To Keep wondering where any division stems from? (you are that source, please don't be a victim...)
To Keep moving towards a personal and deeper understanding of a broader narrative.
To Keep asking better questions to become better informed, more educated of reality.
To Keep having fun and celebrating ALL that is great about this nation, community and people.
There is room for it all.
If you allow and receive and can discern with Hope.
Or a listen to First Nation Voices at Sydney Town Hall, or a stroll with friends down George Street #alwayswasalwayswillbe after a morning Barangaroo WugulOra and then some mellow tunes at The 20th Anniversary Yabun Festival or a visit to The Australian Museum's Awesome First Nation Exhibition "Unsettled". So many ways to celebrate being a Fully Naturalized Australian Citizen.
Please just don't be asleep and amnesic.
