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From: "johnstone" <>
Subject: Re: [PJ] narrow minded people
Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 20:08:35 +1000
References: <003b01c54e2c$5a309cb0$8eba32d2@Denise>


Hi everyone, and thanks for everyone in their sharing over the years on this
list.
I think the bottom line for us all here is "share" and nor "judge" others.
Often things can be said in a joking way but things get misread in the
printed form.
I know that within my own family, my mother was a disgusting bigot until her
death. Some years later I learned that her hatred for Aboriginal people was
due to her overcompensating and trying to keep hush about an Aboriginal
marriage within our own family line. I too was a little surprised when I
first discovered the details and the way it was hidden in our family. Since
then we have also found convict heritage (shock/horror)(Campbell/Murray),
and also much worse back in the 1850's, that one sister was a high class
prostitute and yet her parents died of starvation rather than accept money
from her. My mother would turn in her grave if she thought we knew these
things now.
Thank goodness for research of family trees and honesty...and more so that
soceity has a different attitude to a lot of things that even 40 years ago
were a slur on families in relation to their origins.
Liz Johnstone, Melbourne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Denise" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 7:01 PM
Subject: [PJ] narrow minded people


> Hiya Gay
>
> The name was not *Diane* that waved the certificate under the aunts nose
> it was me ( Denise )..The reason I did that was because she is a very
> uppity woman who does not like Aboriginals and she made me promise not to
> tell her adult children when I told her about it all.
> She always thought that her was from English aristocrats and was quite
> shocked at her ancestry . She always wanted to know about my searching and
> so I told the truth.
> So...To the people who are not sure how you read it that is the way it
> goes.
> Sometimes the truth is to much for some people but she asked for it and I
> obliged.
> Like I said she wanted to know all about the her mothers family and got
> the truth.
> So ...do not to be to quick to judge me in being insensitive or lack of
> feeling. Because that is far from the truth.
>
> I should not have to explain all what happen and defend myself. I am proud
> of what little Aboriginal blood I have in me as I adored my
> grandmother.....full stop!
> Denise
>
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