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tinydancer2 -> RE: Interracial Relationships (7/23/2008 1:40:03 PM)
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You know, I think it could be a matter of perspective too
Yes I think it could be a perspectives matters comming from many fonts: family,community, historical, individual experiences and etc. And individuals just need to express from their own mouths what are they, because if not how we will know what is cooking in their pots?
To me the experience starts in the mothers womb, well even before that as the Lord planned each one of us. A brand new baby keeping poping up into many different circunstances, tribes, communities and will belong and learn, etc some are very "lucky" in having the basic human rights applyed to their lives, as to be feed, taken care off, and etc and to be loved and accepted by who they are is great start, still without meet and knowing The Love Himself at some appointed point in ones life, the earthly heritage by itself is another genealogical tree. Some walked with the Lord many others did not, some did great things before men but not efore God. Who knows their standings is the Lord Himself.
The genealogical tree remembrance arised in my mind as I remember one of my maternal greatgrandmother who was a racist but color blind in her own home, she was "arian white looks" married with a mulato, had 8 babies looking like her husband and still despise the same looks of people outside her home as black. She grew old with the same attitude and in her last years had a "dark black" nurse taking care of her. She was difficult to deal with and her 7 daughters could not deal with her at all but Jurema (the nurse) and grandma Marcia in their combative relationship became attached to each other in their dealings with one another. Some people are very hard to love, there ar not excuses to rudeness and etc but sometimes people are called to keep pressing until the armor of stuff people craft to protect themselves from pain, hurt, rejection etc etc cracks up. It is not easy, but it sure have its rewards and lessons.
I come from a country with lots of racial mixings and people call themselves white but they are in reality brown...[:D] Well, 43% of Brasil is brown, lots of mixing went on between the Native Indians Peoples, Portuguese and Blacks since colonization. Brasilian slaves was bought to Brazil mostly from Nigeria, until this day particularly in Bahia the state I was born, 88% of its population are black descendents from the slaves, the food, the language and custumes are many the same..still today when I meet a Nigerian I enjoy to talk about food and some familiar words from Ioruba language. Its obvious that the Portuguese mostly single males that arrived in Brasil as the whites colonizers were in much less numbers then the Native Indians and Nigerian slaves and they all kept mixing with each others..now of course the reality we see at least in Brasil is that a minority of rich white people are the ones in command and etc and the poor majority are the browns mixings. Prejudice and rascism exists every where but it shows different, some are about social class and casts systems into place. How to explain people from the "same color" fighting, killing, each other around the world ?
Well...each one have their own perspectives for sure. To me people need to tell their own and keep telling and learning and etc. The only One who really make sense and can and will lighting up understanding from it all, to wrap up one to another, gifts of love, is God.
Thanks!
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