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..."By saying that everybody should apologise, you then make people
feel guilty
for something they did not do - trying to force the hand - when all we want to do is move on in a peaceful, harmonious life." (Karen, a few emails back) What is a mystery to me is this immediate connection between guilt and
saying sorry. If I say sorry does that mean I am admitting
guilt When my dad died many many friends said sorry - they were
sorry. And it helped me to have my pain acknowledged. But they were
not guilty! NO one can actually make you feel anything, and
certainly no one can make you feel guilty. Having read and questioned and
thus learned about our history I may choose to feel saddened, enraged,
furious, embarrassed whatever, and I may become aware of my part in
the continual dispossession happening today - -not so far from my little
house in Adelaide where I witness the continual building of THAT bridge
which is founded upon layers of injustice --but whether I feel
guilty or not - thats my choice. I don't feel guilty, I feel
privileged - white and privileged. And very very very sad
ANNETTE
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