Posted by PiscVirgAquaFish
^^^ScorpioFish? Dat u?
Sigh. Mr. D is still my favorite troll.
Posted by james tate
BONES 322
OR YOU A MAN OR WOMAN OF COLOUR?
OR JUST A PILE OF BONES?
Posted by WaterCup
Sometimes I feel like people need to attend seminars or something on black pride to rid themselves of what I suspect to be self hating. Nothing will ever change until people start loving themselves-- that in turn will lead to loving other people & improve communities. I'm so sick of hearing people talking about getting with other people so their kids could get "good hair". People using bleaching creams because they think being light skinned is the only way to the top, or get accepted. Blacks critisizing other blacks for being dark skinned. How stupid is that? How can other people respect you when you don't even respect yourself? I also feel like black people are out of good role models. All the ones that people look up to are dead. Fact is, most young kids these days cant relate to the old role models, they dont even get what they stood for because they're not struggling with the same issues that made those people role models in the 1st place. So they'd rather choose Lil Wayne as an idol & listen to him when he says women are whores, talking about "redbones", etc. Black people, "the man" is not putting you down, you're putting yourselves down & making a laughing stock out of yourselves with these "high yella" statements..it shows you're not comfortable in your own skin.
Posted by starlover
Where are you from Mr F?
I am a white english woman living in Ireland
Posted by starlover
....and why so defensive regarding where you are from we are all open enough about it?
Posted by starlover
^^^ oh that sounds very familiar....pluto talk maybe?
you can't go to the spirit realm until the time is right
though?
Sometimes, I walk in the Spirit. Sometimes not. The Spirit is a far better place
but we can grasp the ways of the Spirit if we listen and allow the Spirit to fill
our hearts and minds with peace so we can emanate it to others.
I have what is called Hawk Medicine, Eagle Medicine and Crow Medicine an Wolf Medicine.
There ARE others, as well. - that's if you want to think in those terms.
My tribe still dances the Ghost Dance.
Posted by MrFirebird
Did you know that Native Americans are the only people who required a permit to practice their traditional religious beliefs and rituals?
Posted by DonJohnson
liberal media is the worst passive aggressive co-conspirator in the downfall of the blacks. They are enablers of this rancid behavior.
OH it's okay. I understand why you are the way you are....... this excuses and enables dysfunctional behavior. Oh it's because of slavery, but yet black grandparents upheld communities and standards. they worked hard and the fathers didn't leave the family. This dysfunctional behavior leapfrogged 2 generations to people who never even experienced slavery. This is a direct result of reverse trolling by the liberal media and the upholding of the anti-intellectual, hip pop culture.
I can see the liberals in this thread right now, "LOL THIS IS A TROLL"
how is it a troll when the topic is filled with facts? kids are dying in the streets you tools. wake up.
Posted by WaterCupPosted by MrFirebird
Did you know that Native Americans are the only people who required a permit to practice their traditional religious beliefs and rituals?
same here, especially for the blacks living in white areas. We have this African tradition-- eg. if you buy a new house then you have to burn some herbs to rid the house of whatever "spirits" the previous owner left behind, a cleansing of sorts. This ritual is also to perfomed to inform the ancestors of your new residence. Its like a house warming party, the African way. Now whites complain when these things happen, they blame the smoke etc, yet they braai (bbq) also creating smoke & that's acceptable ofcourse because its them. That's not okay! But in "Locations" (thats black neighbourhoods) people perform whatever ritual they want without a problem, its only around whites where it becomes a problem. Sometimes people are required to inform/ask permission from their white neighbours, door to door, whenever an African ritual is about to take place..yet THEY continue to braai freely without asking for permission.click to expand
Posted by starloverPosted by MrFirebirdPosted by starlover
^^^ oh that sounds very familiar....pluto talk maybe?
you can't go to the spirit realm until the time is right
though?
Sometimes, I walk in the Spirit. Sometimes not. The Spirit is a far better place
but we can grasp the ways of the Spirit if we listen and allow the Spirit to fill
our hearts and minds with peace so we can emanate it to others.
I have what is called Hawk Medicine, Eagle Medicine and Crow Medicine an Wolf Medicine.
There ARE others, as well. - that's if you want to think in those terms.
My tribe still dances the Ghost Dance.
Sounds lovely!
I am a spiritual healer...all my family are in the spirit world, i am the only one
living (apart from my son) ~~ i work with the spirit realms every day
One of my past lives was as a native american
Speaking of healing - there are many kinds of healing.
Think about language interpreters. I think that those of us who are mixed race, may in fact
have a place for a kind of race interpretation - seeing we understand the races that comprise
our makeup - It's like being a completely impartial judge and a spy, a man who sees both sides equally, and weigh the doings of both sides, in fairness and in truth. HOWEVER, it is necessary that
one be educated in the history of both, understand a long list of considerations (too long to list here) BUT... having that background knowledge, makes it quite easy to see both points of view.
It's like a life-long work wherein perhaps at the end ALLLL that I have done will be understood.
For example the things I say here on these forums, may get someone to stop and think, that person
being gifted elsewhere may take the ball and run with it, but perhaps not while yet in contact with me
but after I have moved on.
A man plants a tree that he will not sit under. Give a man fish, you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for life. That's the kind of wisdom that the Liberal establishment do not want the black communities to hear. It's bad for liberal business.click to expand
Posted by MrFirebirdPosted by WaterCupPosted by MrFirebird
Did you know that Native Americans are the only people who required a permit to practice their traditional religious beliefs and rituals?
same here, especially for the blacks living in white areas. We have this African tradition-- eg. if you buy a new house then you have to burn some herbs to rid the house of whatever "spirits" the previous owner left behind, a cleansing of sorts. This ritual is also to perfomed to inform the ancestors of your new residence. Its like a house warming party, the African way. Now whites complain when these things happen, they blame the smoke etc, yet they braai (bbq) also creating smoke & that's acceptable ofcourse because its them. That's not okay! But in "Locations" (thats black neighbourhoods) people perform whatever ritual they want without a problem, its only around whites where it becomes a problem. Sometimes people are required to inform/ask permission from their white neighbours, door to door, whenever an African ritual is about to take place..yet THEY continue to braai freely without asking for permission.
Another thing they do with Native People, they put them on Reservations. Many managed to break away
from that situation but many did not.
Many had served this country in armed forces in WWI and WWII and like the veterans, and neglected people today, they were exploited - Ira Hayes was one such man.
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Forgotten - Genocide of my red people is STILL going on to this day. Nobody sees it. Nobody cares.
Oh, but America has made him a slogan and a logo and revere and honor him in words. But not in deeds.
Whereas the Black people were once slaves. The Red people were viewed as savages and beasts.
They tell me that my grandson is not tribal. I find this to be beyond insulting. It's like saying
he cannot exist, and that his ancestors cannot exist. - I refer to the blood quantity nonsense.
He's my Grandson and I'll be damned if the Government tells me that he doesn't exist and that he has no heritage!
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Posted by starlover
healing is healing, there is no need to bring colour or politics into it
that is the ego
Posted by starlover
healing is healing, there is no need to bring colour or politics into it
that is the ego
Posted by virgojusticePosted by MrFirebird
Did you know that Native Americans are the only people who required a permit to practice their traditional religious beliefs and rituals?
MrFirebird if you don't mind me asking. Why do Native Americans need permits? Does it have anything to do with the ghost dance.click to expand
Posted by virgojustice
I do live in America. I lived around and went to school with Native Americans the Choctaws. I have read some history on Native Americans and have always been interested. My sister is actually doing research to trace our Native American ancestors.
Posted by virgojustice
No, I am from the south,
The MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians are a state-recognized Native American tribe located in southern Alabama, primarily in Washington and Mobile counties. The MOWA Choctaw Reservation is located along the banks of the Mobile and Tombigbee rivers, on 300 acres (1.2 km?_) near the small southwestern Alabama communities of McIntosh, Mount Vernon and Citronelle, and north of Mobile. In addition to those members on the reservation, about 3,600 tribal citizens live in 10 small settlements near the reservation community. They are led by elected Chief Wilford Taylor. They claim descent from small groups of Choctaw and African people of Mississippi and Alabama, who avoided removal to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma at the time of the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek by intermarriage with African slaves.
Posted by WaterCup
The Native-American culture is an interesting one. I didn't know much about it until I watched the cartoon, Brother Bear. LOL! And reading your posts about Native-Americans is making me to want to read up on the culture. I'm doing it for the love of learning. I love new cultures & learning new things about other people. Just the other day I ate Kitfo for the 1st time. Kitfo is an Ethiopian raw beef cubes with spices & garlic..it wasn't bad but I wont be doing it again. What kind of food do Native-Americans usually eat? Their traditional food.
Posted by tiziani
What you're saying makes sense Firebird. It's ironic when colour is mentioned many people only see that and can't actually read the rest beyond that. A big contradiction.
There's a fine line between going to the source of the pain and getting lost in that, making the pain your whole life's work though.
Mixed race people don't really need acceptance from anyone. It's not an "either or" situation for me. I always found it unnecessary when people insist you have to chose or belong. Mixed race is a race in itself and if anything multiculturalism of the future favours that on odds alone.
Posted by tiziani
What you're saying makes sense Firebird. It's ironic when colour is mentioned many people only see that and can't actually read the rest beyond that. A big contradiction.
There's a fine line between going to the source of the pain and getting lost in that, making the pain your whole life's work though.
Mixed race people don't really need acceptance from anyone. It's not an "either or" situation for me. I always found it unnecessary when people insist you have to chose or belong. Mixed race is a race in itself and if anything multiculturalism of the future favours that on odds alone.
Posted by WaterCup
I find so many similarities in Native-American culture & African culture. When you say every bit of the buffalo was used, do you mean you ate "tripe" too? The intestines. We eat that here, but only that of sheep & cow.
I'll read the links later. Btw, that's a beautiful picture you posted there.
Posted by WaterCup
I don't feel naked because of you, don't be silly-- one of the photos is mine & I don't feel comfortable having it on a thread. So please, delete the post. I don't care about people thinking whatever, I just don't want my photo up like this. DELETE IT!!
Posted by starloverPosted by MrFirebird
PS. America is DYING.
Come to IRELAND ~~ God's land ~ it is steeped in culture
and is great CRAIC!
wooohh!click to expand
Posted by starlover
Pure gold
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Posted by starlover
They are all to pissed (drunk) to be angry
LOL
Lighten up man!
Posted by starlover
....the light i am talking about is
humour, laughter light
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