Aloha.
So a short story I wrote (well it's really short, like 500 words.. I think I'll call it a Micro Story) 'The Little Mermaid' has been featured on Ira Mcguire's blog 'Coming up for Air'.
Ira is awesome and you should check it out, she's been featured in Avid Reader's current newsletter and she's always out and about doing readings which are particuarly fantastic. she writes better than me and is a bit of a fox.
http://www.iramcguire.blogspot.com/
Mahalo.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
boat people are your friends.
The circumstances surrounding the white man's colonisation of Australia are not dissimilar to the events which took place in the U.S.
The main difference between the two seems to be the fact that in America, Africans were stolen from their native land and put into slavery on the new world of milk, honey and of course cotton.
As terrible as that chapter of history is, and i don't wish to detract from it all, the corresponding indigenous ethnicities between Australia and the U.S is not the Aboriginie and the African American, it's the Aboriginie and American Indian; the Apache, the Navajo, the warriors of the fertile planes, the buffalo herders and the mystic cheifs who hold a natural affinity with the Eagles and the Wolves.
Both these races were raped of their land and given either an apology or a casino as restitution. So when the government of the day and it's supporters speaks about illegal immigration, especially boat people, you can't help but wonder if they're suffering from alzheimers or whether a big night out has left them permanently deprived of serotonin.
The main difference between the two seems to be the fact that in America, Africans were stolen from their native land and put into slavery on the new world of milk, honey and of course cotton.
As terrible as that chapter of history is, and i don't wish to detract from it all, the corresponding indigenous ethnicities between Australia and the U.S is not the Aboriginie and the African American, it's the Aboriginie and American Indian; the Apache, the Navajo, the warriors of the fertile planes, the buffalo herders and the mystic cheifs who hold a natural affinity with the Eagles and the Wolves.
Both these races were raped of their land and given either an apology or a casino as restitution. So when the government of the day and it's supporters speaks about illegal immigration, especially boat people, you can't help but wonder if they're suffering from alzheimers or whether a big night out has left them permanently deprived of serotonin.
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