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on skin color alone. They stopped only when my elementary
school principal discovered what was going on and
administered a firm whipping to the lead culprit’s bottom.
A t the time, I thought nothing o f what transpired. One child
punished - a universal
Jem with my younger
i reality, I think that that particular incident was
o f the primary reasons I l didn’t
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one of
aian t fall prey to racism.
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principal himself was black. In the highly charged
atmosphere o f the day, he took great personal risk in
disciplining that young black boy for beating up a white child.
The rightness o f nis actions ring clearly to this day, and 1
reflect on it on many occasions. I doubt if he knows the
profound effect he had on me, the influence on my decision
making process that continues almost thirty years after the
fact. I like to think that my parents admired the man as well,
but we’ve never talked about it.
I think things would have been okay from that point,
until the day it got ugly on the Woolned's front lawn. I
remember being ripped from the revelry o f normalcy, but I
couldn’t say by what. I do know that we, Mrs. Woolned, her
airline glitch. They were stuck in Fiji. The Police band was
called in. They were in New Zealand. A special plane was
ordered and it managed to bring the Police band home just in
time The Police Band plays all around the South Pacific.
They are renowned in these parts and even have their own
album.
The Navy Band is catching up fast. Brigadier
Jameson has been following the band's development, "They
have gone from strength to strength". Claiming the British
have their own worthy style, he added that the T o n g a n band
"does things the British would never dare" They dance. Play
Rock-n-Roll. Jump. Spin. Gyrate. They also sing traditional
Tongan lore and perform manly Tongan storytelling steps,
some o f which look like they are playing charades.
Uniformed in all white with red accents, the 40 Tongan
musicians continued for 15-20 minutes their audition o f
slow-march and freestyle boogie. It was toe-tapping, seat
dancing, heart bumping entertaining. At the end four
voluptuous Tongan women dressed in ancient style tapa
cloth and redfeathered hair pieces joined them for a smooth
rhythmic body flow. All in all it was a thorough success. The
Brigadier said so. He has invited them to come to England to
play in the Tattoo and extended all courtesy except airfare.
An anxious TDS Commander notes that 40
musicians and about 10 admin, and others are a costly crew.
There is hope o f going to the US with the band to try to raise
money. (Am I missing something here? How are they gonna
pay to go to the US?) But I can see where the idea came
from. A teacher I talked to in Tonga told me a story o f a
school band going to the US to raise money and coming
back with $1 million pa’anga (500,000 US dollars). "Or
maybe it was $1 million US," she said. The success comes
from the many Tongans who left Tonga for the US to make
money. In fact Tonga's #1 income is foreign remittances.
For more info on the Edinburgh Tattoo check out
[www.edinburgh-tattoo.co.uk]. 1 took one look at it and
immediately thought o f Dr. MacDoo, whose music you
should definitely check out at [www.drmacdoo.com] E
ended or if there were any injuries or if the police were
involved. I do know that we moved shortly thereafter.
M y father bought a house in the whitest area he
could find. W hether this was a knee-jerk reaction to the
incident at the W oolned’s or a manifestation o f longer-
standing racist views, or a culmination o f both, I don’t know.
Unfortunately, my father’s ideal geographic location was fast
becoming one o f the wealthiest in lower Michigan. Our
arrival immediately relegated my brothers and myself to the
other side o f the tracks. N o t only were we no longer the
Joneses, we weren’t even working for them. Things went
from bad to worse for everyone.
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