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From a provincial city in Northern Australia, the editorial section here at Brindle Style, is an overview,  bringing a wider more personal context, to news and information.

 

Tourist season begins around June with celebration of Indigenous Australia.   Mabo Day 3rd of June leads into  Reconciliation week and NAIDOC

 Big reconciliation work coming out of North America too.    Canada had a Sorry day Apology.   The biggie though,  like a missal from Rome is- "Barack Obama."

 

Editorial - June 08.  Cool    "Don't care if ya black white or brindle."

 

One might prefer to mind the own backyard, prefer to avoid prying into the affairs of other nations, but you'd be flat out missing these two words- Obama and Black.  There is no getting away from race and the 'race' for the U.S presidency.  And no getting away from the subject of race for Barack Obama -

1995 Memoir " Dreams from My Father - A Story of Race and Inheritance" -...

"Miscegenation. The word is humpbacked, ugly, portending a monstrous outcome: like antebellum or octoroon, it evokes images of another era, a distant world of horsewhips and flames, dead magnolias and crumbling porticos."

                                                       

                        Mabo vs Qld 2 (1992) 

 

Maiia: - The more I learn the weirder it gets...

 

Mildred Loving  R.I.P May 2008. Loving vs Virginia 388 U.S.1 (1967)    

 

Maiia:  This landmark civil rights case, Loving vs Virginia removed race based legal restrictions on marriage.  The weird bit - in 1967, - my parents, grand parents and great grandparents have all undertaken inter-racial marriage.

One English colony (New Zealand)  founded quite differently to another (U.S) 

 

The judge that tried Mr and Mrs Loving in Virginia USA -reckoned  God had put people of different colours on different continents 'cause he never intended them to mix. 

 

Cool- Not a problem - feel free to take yourself back to your own continent!!   Ehe - God also put our share of the worlds resources on our own lands.!! 

 

Media Reform Conference. June 08      DILEMMA!!    Participatory Democracy- what Bill Moyers called the experiment in Self-government, 'depends upon the provision of informed information.  The corporate owned news-media exist soley to return profit from sales.'

 

The subject of local media content came up as Aliza Selton and I were having coffee at Byblos.  By chance or syncronicity on the table was a Murdoch product.  -

Disturbingly free of content.  A fairground barker, a spruiker, yes - intent on directing the traffic to sales.   At least Uncyclopedia- the "content-free" wiki... warns ya.  

eg:  The Irish Riverdance Academy      at Uncyclopedia says

"Fact: While ninjas are fast, the feet of an Irish Riverdance Academy dancer are faster.  If the dancers were taught to fight, they could kick the ninja's ass. Too bad." 

 

Lol spotted a Ron English billboard   - "Less Journalism - More Jingoism-"

 
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