Meaningful Conversations With A Black Person.

[manker]

New Zealand, whilst another colony of the former British Empire with all it's tender mercies to the fuzzy wuzzies when they invaded colonised, has truly tried to make amends constitutionally. There was a treaty signed between the British and Maori, guaranteeing Maori soveignty called the Waitangi Treaty (Littlewood Treaty on the British side), which in the usual inimitable British style they simply ignored and grabbed the land and resources anyway. But over the last 30 years there have amends been made, there is a Waitangi Tribunal, completely separate from the government which listens to Iwi (tribal) claims and then adjudicates them. The government has to abide by these decisions and has handed over vast tracts of crown land and money to Iwi as recompense for their lossses. At least here, we are seeing some small redress for the past, an example is that the native greenstone has all been given as a resource to one of the Iwi as a trust, they have the right of ownership for all of this resource. Whilst by no means perfect this is one of the most forward thinking and caring projects for an indigenous people to give them back what was taken and to create a partnership and move forward that I have seen, giving back a small measure of hope and pride.

In Canada being fair and forward thinking to a fault, we basically let Black people do anything they want short of holding positions of real power or getting too uppity.

In Wales we're even more progressive as we completely encourage the black communities to adopt holding positions such that propagation isn't such a thorny issue for indigenes.

[Snee]

I went to school, sixth form, with a few dewds of colour. Not only were they decent chaps, but they told me some of the best tales of casual crime and firing "kala-shin-kovs" off the roof back home in Eritrea I have evar heard in my whole life.

My very favourite interchange was with a black bloke with blond hair, though. Some sort of school summit type of deal with thousands of students from different schools. So I'm standing some ways behind him talking with my mate, and I comment, for whatever reason thinking the guy wouldn't hear me, with a "hah, no way is that his real hair colour..." naturally he turns around, and tells me, loudly, that it's too his real hair, super pissed off, like. I then relate this to one of my formerly african mates laughing about it, cos, you know, I'm hella thoughtless, and he goes "Cool! Yusuf* is here".

Turns out they're all mates. Like, all the black dudes I know and that bloke.

I'm fairly certain he dyed his hair and exaggerated the angriness for shits and giggles, though, working on the assumption that he shared the same sort of humour as my mates, who liked their mindgames, the douchebags.

There was this other dude I also knew in sixth form, though. Not really adept at meaningful conversations, but brilliantly surreal in an unintentional sort of way. Self-proclaimed ladies' man who kept getting rejected. Had front teeth jutting out straight forward, but were in blatant denial that he needed dentistry. Odd dress code with silk shirts in loud colours, chinos and patent leather shoes

Ran into him years later, at uni. He was running his own travel agency out of his tiny student apartment and asked me to help him sort out his computer. While I was there he showed me his indoor barbecue grill, which was in fact an outdoor grill, indoors (he'd cunningly ripped apart the pre-installed firealarm in his apartment (required by law) going by the wires hanging out of it). He also had a massive set of speakers surrounding something like a 15" TV. His fuses were prone to going out, he told me, so he'd sorted it by wrapping them with copper wire and putting them back into his fuse box.

The place was a fire hazard wrapped in another fire hazard.

But he had braces on.



*name altered cos I don't really remember his real name.

[Something Else]

:earl:

That was hilarious.

[manker]

I think you should send the Swedish robert00000 a link to this place

[Et tu]

Moar liek achmed00000000

[mjmacky]

I have decided that all of you live in one of the original Guess Who board games

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[IdolEyes787]

*name altered cos I don't really remember his real name.

It was Tyrone.

[mjmacky]

*name altered cos I don't really remember his real name.

It was Tyrone.

He did say Eritrea, which is not in fact an American ghetto. That would be little Eritrea. I put my money on Samuel, just for the extra racial profiling.

[IdolEyes787]

Honestly DeShawn was my next guess.

[mjmacky]

Honestly DeShawn was my next guess.

Not even an Anfernee?