"I'm so tired of people making such a big deal about lineage, while they don't scrutinize others who also have 2 or 3 blood ties. I hope she (Radmilla Cody) does not explain herself not one more time. Whoever does not know by now does not need to know. They should mind their own business and leave hers alone. Her beauty and grace speak for themselves." - Nataska Humminbird
I think it depends on which culture you grow up with predominantly, to say if she was raised in a black family her Navajo ways would have been cast aside is not fair. If she was raised Navajo-then maybe her black culture may have been cast aside. I think it depends on which culture you are raised in." - Sabrina Beharie
"After the European conquest the questions and dilemma of identity is a continuing issue. It does not go away by being disgusted with it. So many are on different levels of understanding how to put their broken pieces together. I get tired of it from time to time. Just because many whites have grown weary of the outcome of their past doesn't mean they are not part of the solution to what is essentially an identity crisis. There would be an acceleration of the healing process and the reconciliation work if whites, en masse, were able to participate. I am very sensitive to the reactions of white relatives on these issues, and understand the challenges and fears they face in this work. It ain't easy, but that's the work we have cut out for us.
My early adulthood was made very difficult by the consciousness of oppressed people (Black Americans). It was extremely difficult as a young man to live in the Black community as either an African or an Indian. I learned how deeply self-hatred as a growing cancerous element of the soul beat people down. It was hard understanding why and how it all worked into Black pride, but it had to be fathomed to evolve to the place where I could learn to do ceremony with whites, and teach among Blacks, and do more than straddle fences, but live freely."- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 3.26.13
I think it depends on which culture you grow up with predominantly, to say if she was raised in a black family her Navajo ways would have been cast aside is not fair. If she was raised Navajo-then maybe her black culture may have been cast aside. I think it depends on which culture you are raised in." - Sabrina Beharie
"After the European conquest the questions and dilemma of identity is a continuing issue. It does not go away by being disgusted with it. So many are on different levels of understanding how to put their broken pieces together. I get tired of it from time to time. Just because many whites have grown weary of the outcome of their past doesn't mean they are not part of the solution to what is essentially an identity crisis. There would be an acceleration of the healing process and the reconciliation work if whites, en masse, were able to participate. I am very sensitive to the reactions of white relatives on these issues, and understand the challenges and fears they face in this work. It ain't easy, but that's the work we have cut out for us.
My early adulthood was made very difficult by the consciousness of oppressed people (Black Americans). It was extremely difficult as a young man to live in the Black community as either an African or an Indian. I learned how deeply self-hatred as a growing cancerous element of the soul beat people down. It was hard understanding why and how it all worked into Black pride, but it had to be fathomed to evolve to the place where I could learn to do ceremony with whites, and teach among Blacks, and do more than straddle fences, but live freely."- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 3.26.13
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