My parents definitely pushed history on us; to know the history of the world and history of African-Americans was super important.. I think the most important lesson was for us nor to see colour.. People might see your colour, but that's not how you see the world. (Venus Williams)
This is a very typical outlook of seeming togetherness, whereas the affinity of differences (see passim) depends not necessarily on togetherness but on seeing things from a similar perspective from a psychic affinity of strength (independence, self-reliance.)
This depends on the type of active culture that is no longer that visible in the mainstream. IE the Bones Bros Ranch. This implies a fertile community qbd the sequences of events that herald a community. Birth, growth, motherhood, relatives, neighbours.
Sequences of events are active, while words are not active per se, or in other words they can describe action or not. The basic conundrum is epitomised by the establishment scholar David Patrikarakos of How Social Media is Reshaping Conflict.
This has become a favorite of war zealots who seem to think that wars can be harnessed by words much better than they can by battlefield equipment. This is a pretty mad concept that adds to the hyena-like drivel already spewing from super-saturated multimedia channels.
If we were run by mad Martians it might make sense, but the type of people who represent that world are different to the type who engage in active pursuits, whether on the battlefield, or in the harvesting field.
This was brought home by watching Red Ryder, the 50s Republic serial from the eponymous strip. The plot is a standard good/bad one of corrupt land-grabbers and bankers versus sturdy men and women of the earth defending their landholdings.
Whereas Venus Williams seems to want to neutralise her racial differences, Little Beaver is an all-out Indian scout speaking cute pigeon english (reminiscent of Connie.)
Little Beaver's resourcefulness and native cunning are constant plot spurs. Despite his age he is an expert horseman and spies villainy from on high riding the sierra. His diminutive stature also enables him to eavesdrop.
Little Beaver makes a good advertisement for native resourcefulness. The problem with moderns is they neutralise differences, tending to diminish the contributions of the traditional, active breeds as opposed to the modern breed which is all words and no action.
Venus Williams doesn't apply her tennis flair to real life. Instead, the active sort of life is cut-off and the black power agenda neutralised.
Nevertheless, the ebony mask is beautiful in a slightly different way to the white nations. In a similar way, the dreamy countenance of Sacheen Littlefeather is representative of native Americans.
Canned Heat (SR7) have a sort of mixture of dreamy and primal natures, and they represent the type who are by nature active, whether instrumentally or in the field, rather than talkative.
Granted, Alan Wilson could hold a conversation with ease, he was a dreamy individual who would have been lost in the age of social-media (or possibly orbited)
Similarly, Red Ryder (played by Don Barry) is a man who's words are strictly related to his actions. After all, if you're in a saloon challenging three men to a fight, it's better to stay alive than bandy words.
Red Ryder represents an era where the culture developed through sequences of events rather than through (the political) verbal sphere. Galloping horses, posses, scouting Indian, rough-house.
Sequences of events can be described by words (poetically, natch), and that is the traditional, physical reality. Sequences of events imply birth, raising, motherhood, neighborhood. As in the Cannwd Heat song, one gets back 100-fold what one puts in.
Parenthetically, a body has to develop as a sequence of events in a hierarchical sense or nothing would make sense or be enabled to be self-motivated, see prev on DNA etc. Articulate hierarchy is the snake-shape of truth; look at the skeletal legs' entwined vessels.
The sequential reality, the biological physical reality, is under threat from words. JK Rowling recently made this acid comment about Scottish premiere Sturgeon..
..relating to Scottish legislation enabling self-defining gender. As Rowling's message implies, it's a purely verbal proposition, not a real one.
The problem with the Venus Williams approach is that if one is race blind one can be sex blind or age blind. Differences are neutralised and it instils a humanoid, neutral agenda (of the Musk, Soros, Patrikarakoses.)
Cowboys and Indians don't need to be verbal, but they are articulate within a hierarchical development of the old communities of the land. They are literate, active people inhabiting wide open spaces that psyche and fire the blood.
RIP Sacheen Littlefeather