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Pourri Pourri - Remember Me

"Pourri Pourri - Remember Me"
I am not white I am coloured A kaleidoscope of voice and song muted freedom sold for the price of a bale of wheat ground in the white man’s mill I become pale as sifted flour lost voodoo ghost whispered on wind song gone walk about in the Dream Time with all my brothers and sisters chained to drown as anchors in white man’s boats I am blood sold and weighed without home, without doubt sold for the price of teeth, skin and enslaved longevity what is left in my veins the remnants of a home fading the ancestors are calling this is not to be forgotten drained I am they attempt to make me something else white as the bones that point I am ignored my gods hang their heads in shame For I am lower than the lowest pet now kept in a kennel no power My heritage, I am strung up on a tree displayed for what I am lacking I am a lesson for the others hung like art and burned By alabaster hidden hoods I am not seen for who I truly am Born of true royalty misunderstood, barefoot, voiceless, crude I now dance with all those who are free united barefoot colour bleeds I dance with Featherfoot Pourri Pourri Freed You will see Remember Me (LadyLabyrinth / 2020)

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Date: 10/30/2022 6:33:00 PM
"Remember Me" / Blue Boy https://youtu.be/fKKNPLowteY
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Date: 10/30/2022 6:31:00 PM
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featherfoot
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/30/2022 6:32:00 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/30/2022 6:32:00 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_people
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/30/2022 6:31:00 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_Australians
Date: 10/30/2022 6:30:00 PM
pourri pourri https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55555407
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/30/2022 6:31:00 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdaitcha
Date: 10/30/2022 6:29:00 PM
The Stolen Generation / Australian Aboriginal 1.First Australians - An Unhealthy Govt Experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXyjUsH_24Y
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Date: 10/30/2022 6:29:00 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V3SX0H7pHc
Date: 10/30/2022 6:29:00 PM
The True Holocaust & Genocide of the Australian Aboriginal
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/30/2022 6:29:00 PM
https://youtu.be/07-QLqogpPE
Date: 10/30/2022 6:28:00 PM
The Dreamtime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamtime
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/30/2022 6:28:00 PM
https://www.aboriginal-art-australia.com/aboriginal-art-library/aboriginal-dreamtime/
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/30/2022 6:28:00 PM
https://theconversation.com/dreamtime-and-the-dreaming-an-introduction-20833
Date: 6/2/2020 3:16:00 PM
You my friend write and present meaningful poetry. Gifting from knowledge, insight and immense poetic talents. This wonderful piece being a perfect example of that. *Take the bell, ring it loud. *True words and kind heart sells. *Wear your empathy proud. *Gifts from Love's wishing wells. God bless....
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Date: 6/4/2020 7:13:00 AM
Thank you Lindley. But we ALL know (those of us who have been here interminably, true writers with half a brain and the guts to honestly, intelligently and logically admit, this place is a farce), meaningful poetry means not a jot here; unless embraced by empathy of writers/poets - who actually 'get' the scene and what it is really all about.
Date: 6/1/2020 7:24:00 PM
Australia/Black Deaths in Custody.
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Date: 6/1/2020 7:25:00 PM
https://amymcquire.substack.com/p/we-must-bear-witness-to-black-deaths?fbclid=IwAR1XONwLTyAWMAWjw-NplLKgW0O-coifhsfz5JsH-J17Rp96heZBZhNid8c
Date: 6/1/2020 5:21:00 PM
Its a shame... only shows how senseless we have been as a race...but nevertheless well written here...
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 6/1/2020 7:26:00 PM
There is room for growth and improvement. Humanity just needs to wake up. Some are, some are still asleep.
Date: 5/30/2020 5:41:00 PM
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." / Martin Luther King
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Date: 5/30/2020 5:23:00 PM
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/i-have-dream-address-delivered-march-washington-jobs-and-freedom
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Date: 5/30/2020 5:24:00 PM
https://youtu.be/vP4iY1TtS3s
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Date: 5/30/2020 5:23:00 PM
https://youtu.be/ATPSht6318o
Date: 5/30/2020 5:15:00 PM
https://blackcensus.org/
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Date: 5/30/2020 5:29:00 PM
https://youtu.be/6_uYWDyYNUg
Date: 5/30/2020 5:00:00 PM
And to your side of the world, this... "How are we here again?" Black America on Edge/Police Killing of George Floyd.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/30/2020 6:08:00 PM
https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/george-floyd-protest-updates-05-28-20/index.html
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/30/2020 5:51:00 PM
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/us-calls-in-13-000-national-guard-troops-as-george-floyd-riots-overwhelm-police
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Date: 5/30/2020 5:48:00 PM
http://a.msn.com/01/en-au/BB14OA16?ocid=se2
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/30/2020 5:47:00 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/30/george-floyd-protests-live-updates/
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/30/2020 5:46:00 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/us/floyd-protests-usa.html
Date: 5/29/2020 7:26:00 AM
One man shouldn't be put above another. We all are the same and want to dance free... you use your talents in such a positive and unique way...so not beige and the message is spot on
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Date: 5/29/2020 4:53:00 PM
Pourri-Pourri is also referred to as "Pointing the Bone", a form of Voodoo, Australian Aboriginal. If you are Aboriginal, and if you are White, "Pointing the Bone" can be lethal.
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Date: 5/29/2020 4:45:00 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXyjUsH_24Y
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Date: 5/29/2020 4:44:00 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V3SX0H7pHc
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Date: 5/29/2020 4:41:00 PM
As you know, I watched "Becoming" on Netflix yesterday. It's always been important to me, to be enlightened on world politics. American politics is different from ours. But similar. From watching that documentary, I thought perhaps that person would be an ideal candidate for America's president. You look at the current lack in true "leadership" contenders in your country at present - the person in that documentary would be a strong contender for a rational, cool, calm collected leader. I do agree with your comment though, without the same team around.
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Date: 5/29/2020 4:40:00 PM
From that documentary, it became even more apparent the struggles races of colour have gone through and continue to go through because of white man's interference and controlling nature. I sequed to our own country's First Nation, which the larger global community is not really aware of - although they are aware of their brothers/sisters First Nations in your country and the history and struggles of race discrimination lived by the African American, and other cultures of colour (Mexican for eg and others). Genocide and the Stolen Generation, the Australian Aboriginals; next to those originally and still existing in Africa, are one of the ancient people, with wisdom and knowledge so much older and far deeper than the European settlers who invaded them. Much much older than the Egyptians and other cultures. Their religion steeped in The Dream Time.

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