Today, February 6, Waitangi Day, Bob Marley’s birthday. I like the juxtaposition.
I like the way Bob Marley’s birthday has been co-opted to serve as an oblique approach to one of New Zealand’s cultural flashpoints.
I like the way the highest ideals of his music are set in dialogue with the ongoing exploration of our national identity.
I like dancing to the Black Seeds on a bright summer day.
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Waitangi Day?
Commemorates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, between the British Crown and the Maori tribes, NZ’s founding document. This is our national day, but as NZ works through its legacy of colonization, the day has acquired a… fractious reputation.
Presumably you saw page three of today’s Dom Post?
Si senor.
I’m a sexy robot (a robot who likes sex).
Would have been there. But I was working. Fi and Kate made it though.
What Sam said, which is teh big poop. Glad you had fun. 🙂