COLONIZATION OF THE MIND
At a lecture one day we shared images and read documentation from several Spanish sources describing
and praising the indigenous dance and the dancers and “how perfect” the dancers were in executing the dance a person in the room said “I don’t believe anything written by a Spaniard!” followed by “If it was perfect... it couldn’t have been indigenous…….” DEAD SILENCE “ Have you seen the pyramids?” I asked “do you know how many pyramids there are in Mesoamerica in comparison to Egypt?” (10 to 1) The main difference is that there is no river near any pyramid In Mesoamerica, nor are there beasts of burden, nor is there any evidence of the concept of the wheel in Mesoamerica and yet they exist have heard and been told many times how brilliant and astounding that the Egyptian pyramids are, how they were constructed and how intelligent and brilliant those architects were when asked If they are aware of the pyramids of Mesoamerica, the usual reply is “Where?” and/or “surely you don't mean to compare?” and/or “Those pyramids were built by aliens……” have been invited to MAKE MUSIC in 47 states 28 countries and 5 continents multiple times and unfortunately, no matter what country or continent I visit the indigenous are treated the same disrespectfully which begs the question WHY?????? why does this continue in our "modern" more educated world? the time is now to stop tolerating our differences and instead, CELEBRATE them as we are each human beings INDIGENOUS TO THIS PLANET |