Anneke told me a story, as we were walking through the eucalypts up Mount Ainslie, about one of her friends who is working in a school on an Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory. She had to break up a fistfight that had broken out between two of the boys in her classroom. Pulling them apart, she asked "Now, explain to me: why are you fighting?"
"We're fighting about which is better;" one of the boys replied, "black Michael Jackson or white Michael Jackson".
i see this incident as a metaphor.
ReplyDeletethese two boys are two parts of my brain
it is a daily wrestle...which IS the better MJ?
i fear i may never know...