The Aussie ‘fair go’ doesn’t allow for the notion that not everyone gets one. White people can take this as an individual attack
Yaama, I belong to the Gomeroi people. My dad’s family are Trindalls from Narrabri, my mum’s mother was born at Borah Crossing, sort of near Tamworth. Mum tells me that nan could always pick the tree out that she was born under. I love this yarn – something about my roots to this country being associated with the literal roots of nan’s birthing tree grounds me. I’m from here, because nan was from here, and her nan was from here, and all the nans all the way back were from here.
Nan’s gone now. I wish I had spoken to her more about life and how she always managed to handle racism with stoic grace; “butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth”, they’d say about her. I thought that meant she was sweet, but later I learnt she wouldn’t, or couldn’t, speak her truth in naming racism.
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