HR AND CC Flashcards
-charlie going to Eroll
‘sit down’ ‘’You’ve got a job…and you got a house… on my land. Where’s my house? Where’s my job?’’.
The health system
‘’Fuck your hard to find’’-‘’You mind, I call you Charlie, I have trouble pronouncing frogin names.’’
Justice system
, ‘’you black fellas can be smart when you want to’’
‘’This is our land you bastard ‘’
‘’You’re still trying to change our culture to your bastard culture’’
‘’I should have hunted you down that day’’
‘’White fella locked me up for being aboriginal. I am gonna have to live the white way now’’
Bush scene
“I’m free now! Lots of fish. I have my own supermarket. And it’s my country! I can dance with it”.
Library safe haven for maxine /comparing to cc
“The library was a refuge for geeks, misfits and outcasts’’
“my motherland is a long way, too far i cant see my motherland”
Resilience and hopelessness
Somewhere along the lines, we just give in ..somewhere among the line we die a little’’ pg 155
‘’This is how we see ourselves. This is how were crushed’’pg 244
‘’This is how we shame it. How we make it break’’ pg 214
‘’It’s like a supermarket out there’’ -cc
‘’They stole our land … their luck, i’m only borrowing their car’
Longing to fit in
‘’there is something not normal about [it]…she was ugly, i hated her’’
‘’At 5 and a half, racism had already changed me…i learnt to breathe it’’
‘’whitefellas locked me up for being Aboriginal. I might have to live the whitefella way now’’
vitiligo
‘’where bandanas blend in… and hair would work with gravity’’ . ‘’He god had answered my prayers…i was turning white’’
‘’ against anything i had ever been told was possibly, i was turning white …on the surface of my skin, a miracle was quilty brewing’’
‘’not be’’
‘’If there was a god he hated me …i wanted out, to not exist anymore’’-maxine
School project
‘’slavery felt like a shamful thing to be descenede from. As if somehow made me less of a human’
‘’they knew we werent actual people. Knew what we had once been’’
‘’i am the descend of those unbroken’’
Fuckwitt dad
“a stroke of luck’’
‘’characterised …[as] cheerful and simple minded’’
Paul ketting speech
‘’ We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disease, we brought the alcohol. We committed murders.’
dance
‘’go back home now…back to my own country..where my place is’
‘’like to do it’’.
Belonging
‘’claw my out from my skin’’
‘’Where we used to sleep as kids…going to my mother country’’
‘’Why did you come here ? ..is this your plan?’’
‘’The pool party marked the end of longing to belong, destroyed the finial remnants of caring what they thought’’
VIOLENCE
‘’There was something about what had just happened that made the hairs on ,y arms stand on end something hideous about the sudden escalation from words into physical bullying a scariness about pack mentality’’
‘’you fucking usless black bastard’’
IDENTITY
‘’Miss Cooke pressed pause and stepped in front of the television, excitement gleaming in her green eyes. ‘’This speech marks a turning point in Australian history’’
‘’well fuck you then, trecherous bastard’’
