The day he walked into my life
My step caught an infectious spring
It marked the dawn of a New Day
The dawn of a New World.
I didnt think Id see the day that a 'man of colour' would grace the White House.
Over a week has passed... the headlines have said it all.
But the effects will resonate into our urban and private schools...
As children look on as we become supposedly more equal and the colour barrier fades.
Perhaps its idealism.
A member on a forum, a white American known as YankeeD, stated that he now fears he will be sent to the gas chambers.
This dawn may be a long one. But Im glad Im alive to wake with it.
Friday, 14 November 2008
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Fierce blushing
As the earth renews and the autumn leaves fiercely blush a sumptuous crimson...
they will inevitably fall... and disintergrate under our feet.
The proletariat as well as the bourgeoisie.
As with all superpowers.
they will inevitably fall... and disintergrate under our feet.
The proletariat as well as the bourgeoisie.
As with all superpowers.
Nations and States
State and statelessness...
the space in between and that occupied area that surrounds it.
Language forms a way of discovering a landscape.
Giving way to a new way of seeing.
Of being.
Is a nation a group of people, accustomed to the same culture, language, and moral rights and wrongs, and the state, a measure. An institution to which these people conform?
So when the state lets its people down, as it so often does, is it the fault of the people who felt the need to be governed by a body, or merely the "banality of evil" that leads to the atrocities of the past century?
Which position does the 'nation state' take?
What justification can be given to criminal acts commited by refugees in order to have a right as a criminal, because the 'state' they inhabit fail to provide them with rights as a human.
In a multicultural soceity, with faith-based schools existing alongside occupied spaces where the native language has been stripped, where do lessons begin?
'Inhabitants' would prefer not to talk politics, or discuss borders. And as long as one holds the unobtainable permit, or just the right shade of skin colour, which they can opt for, they may pass today.
If they're obviously in the right mood.
the space in between and that occupied area that surrounds it.
Language forms a way of discovering a landscape.
Giving way to a new way of seeing.
Of being.
Is a nation a group of people, accustomed to the same culture, language, and moral rights and wrongs, and the state, a measure. An institution to which these people conform?
So when the state lets its people down, as it so often does, is it the fault of the people who felt the need to be governed by a body, or merely the "banality of evil" that leads to the atrocities of the past century?
Which position does the 'nation state' take?
What justification can be given to criminal acts commited by refugees in order to have a right as a criminal, because the 'state' they inhabit fail to provide them with rights as a human.
In a multicultural soceity, with faith-based schools existing alongside occupied spaces where the native language has been stripped, where do lessons begin?
'Inhabitants' would prefer not to talk politics, or discuss borders. And as long as one holds the unobtainable permit, or just the right shade of skin colour, which they can opt for, they may pass today.
If they're obviously in the right mood.
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