This article is in response to “WE WILL NEVER CHANGE WHO WE ARE BY BEING WHO WE WERE.” by Leamble –Ed.
Controversial actions applies pressure on perceptions to “Black lives matter concept.”
- Former Wallaby
- Formula One
- Fallible Perception
A sporting enthusiast and a regular visitor to our region has sent in an article for publication. We encourage anyone to send in articles for consideration. This is the link to Leamble’s contribution and after a brief discussion with him to broaden the outlook with influential events, Our chief editor saw no reason not to add this editorial to our line of articles for readers to ponder under the category of “Stories”. I will identify the guest writer as “Leamble Lone Camper” as he writes after seeing controversial actions by well know sporting identities.
* Former Wallaby. Former Wallabies fullback Israel Folau has attracted more controversy by declining to join team mates and opponents in taking a knee to acknowledge the Black Lives Matter movement in Super League’s when it returned on Sunday. This was the first match since the competition was halted due to the Corona Virus in March. The biggest talking point of the game came before kick-off when Folau remained standing while the 25 other players on the field and the referee, knelt briefly at Headingley. Israel Folau is currently playing with the Catalan Dragons in the Super League.
The Black Lives Matters movement has grown around the world since the death of American George Floyd while being arrested in May. All recent Premier League football matches have seen players take a knee before kick-off – a move Super League said they wanted to replicate. That want comes with its own perception.
Folau has attracted controversy ever since his daring comments on social media that saw him sacked by Rugby Australia. Catalans Dragon’s coach Steve McNamara interestingly defended Folau’s decision not to kneel, and said he was entitled to make a personal choice.
Contrary to Australian rugby intervention, Catalans Coach ventured to say “As a group of players and coaching staff, we spoke about it in depth and as a club we are completely against racism and all for equal opportunity,” McNamara said. “And we decided that we would respect anyone’s personal choice on the matter.”
*Formula One Drivers. In another similar sporting incident, a number of Formula One drivers also took to the knee to show support against racism in their own differing message ahead of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on Sunday. While many took to one knee, Kevin Magnussen, Antonio Giovinazzi, Carlos Sainz, Charles Leclerc, Daniil Kvyat, Max Verstappen and Kimi Raikkonen decided to remain standing.
* Fallible Perception. The Leamble Story – The journey along a chosen path with or without filters.
Leamble’s story is written in the third person, in view of his own true accounts:
He begins his story with the statements like, “Will we ever change who we are by being who we were”? And “Are these intended Perceptions”? These are foremost in his mind when witnessing the Black Lives Matter advocates. Leamble utters to himself, “This is a perception likened to my mothers journey across a flat world and the stories in my youth as a crewman on a racing yacht prior to hashtags”.
Leamble initially reflects about his mother as she journeyed here from England to Australia in the late nineteen thirties as part of England’s “stolen generation”. His mother had been bought by Bernardo Homes to fulfil their needs of the white ladies to partner those furthering the British Kingdom across the colonies. Herein lays another controversial Australian story. They needed “white” ladies in waiting because many of the English ladies felt the coloured girls were in fact dirty and white community didn’t like being touched by them. So in England the poverty ridden and the gypsies were taken to be trained as personal maids. There were many horrific court cases and many are still pending, but it is not these stolen ones, black lives or yellow maidens that he focuses upon. It is the perception of the evidence appearing as a `flat world`. Leamble ponders on the fact that it is so easy to carry a proven fact in ones mind yet not let it intrude into reality.
His mother was taught the world was round, she had an Atlas world globe on a stand in the house which contradicted her experience of how the world appears to be flat. Her journey to Australia by ship proved that it was flat all the way. Although the cold winds would now blow in from the South and in the middle of the year, rather than December to now challenge her perception toward reality.
In another example in his true story of deciphering fallible and intended perception, Leamble would volunteer to crew on racing yachts during his days as a university student. In the crew he met a wealthy Swiss helmsman who constantly told him “it’s no good bludging mate !” who also continued to expound how he was a self made millionaire. He came to this country with ten dollars in his pocket and in ten years was worth millions. Then one day Leamble met the helmsman’s Swiss Father. It seemed that his father was extremely wealthy and proud of his son who he had financed through university. The Swiss dad had also followed up with bankrolling his son’s business ventures, which were based around the the Swiss father’s patents which were established here in Australia prior to his son’s arrival. Leamble mumbled to himself “Now this Helmsman intended to flatten the earth in my world”.
Parallel inconsistencies could be simple. Many beliefs become indeterminate inconsistencies that don’t fit the chosen path, so we negate them. we certainly don’t forget them, we just don’t accept them as a real part of our lives. these inconsistencies may well be an important fact of someone else’s chosen path. Relationships are built on this dual reality of what is important at that moment, family/work, friendships/wife, children/child, right down to you and the dog. Interestingly most need never to choose between, balance, time and rituals that hold fast. Particularly as all our literature, art, music, and videos rely implicitly on our `willingness to suspend disbelief. Across the world, people are glued to screens waiting for the next episode. This perverse attachment to the magical components of social media invades all our thinking and categorises us as a race of no more than hash tag groups.
Social media is not new, just a changed in format, Shakespeare wrote plays about love and sexuality, about age and acceptance, about race, colour and oppression, as did many others, in all forms of art. I attended a photographic display of racial subrogation that was on display, at a public park in Sean Reap. But all art is in itself `populist` like hit songs and current videos. Todays social media is impacting on our lives as the “flat earth” syndrome. The social message is disassociated from the reality of our daily lives. Those who study history know that little has changed. Man is still punishing the losers in his society and is at war with anything that contravenes his chosen path ideals.
Leamble believes that it is not hashtags that we need in cultural conversations or even developing new laws. We need to start again by giving up all our preconceptions of truth and faith. Set aside our pain, our hurt, examine ourselves, then slowly move outward, family then friends followed by subcultures, then slowly moving outward, knowing that each individual is accounted for in our examination. Leamble knows that this will not happen and accepts that the chosen path is to continue the journey across the perceived “flat earth” with a heavily influenced Global Positioning System.
