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lonesparkhttps://godsandradicals.org/2017/01/19/magic-outside-empire-healing-the-legacy-of-shattered-cultures/
This article talks about important stuff and I think it does it in a mostly-kind-of-ok way for White-on-White arguments?
I guess I'm a little surprised that there's no mention of magical/empathic/etc. White people experiencing or being aware of the legacies of violence and desecration thru contact with Otherworld beings or phenomena?
There's also a lot of apology for supposed good intentions, including in the parts that frame this quote...
"In this report from the Training School For Indian Youth in Forest Grove, Oregon, the commissioner for Indian affairs describes how children were used to make shoes, blacksmith, and dig a sewer line, stating that these children 'are commended by their instructor for their obedience and industry.'"
I'm not a person with magical abilities or experiences, or that much direct experience with the numinous, especially lately...
But the only way I understand to engage with these unconscionable horrors is through my religion.
Our gods deal with work and effort and sacrifice. I'm studying Urglaawe and Frau Holle, blessed brilliant grandmother of the multiverse Herself, is very much concerned with what we could call "industry."
But not with slavery.
Not with rending families and villages apart to feast on the filthy spoils and call it "progress."
Not with dishonor.
Not with deciding some folk aren't folk at all and therefore their good actions don't matter and your dreadful crimes don't count.
Not with the cruel and lazy seeking to prosper off the backs of stolen children.
This article talks about important stuff and I think it does it in a mostly-kind-of-ok way for White-on-White arguments?
I guess I'm a little surprised that there's no mention of magical/empathic/etc. White people experiencing or being aware of the legacies of violence and desecration thru contact with Otherworld beings or phenomena?
There's also a lot of apology for supposed good intentions, including in the parts that frame this quote...
"In this report from the Training School For Indian Youth in Forest Grove, Oregon, the commissioner for Indian affairs describes how children were used to make shoes, blacksmith, and dig a sewer line, stating that these children 'are commended by their instructor for their obedience and industry.'"
I'm not a person with magical abilities or experiences, or that much direct experience with the numinous, especially lately...
But the only way I understand to engage with these unconscionable horrors is through my religion.
Our gods deal with work and effort and sacrifice. I'm studying Urglaawe and Frau Holle, blessed brilliant grandmother of the multiverse Herself, is very much concerned with what we could call "industry."
But not with slavery.
Not with rending families and villages apart to feast on the filthy spoils and call it "progress."
Not with dishonor.
Not with deciding some folk aren't folk at all and therefore their good actions don't matter and your dreadful crimes don't count.
Not with the cruel and lazy seeking to prosper off the backs of stolen children.
