Some days are more momentous than others.

Mudcatter Hilda Fish started an above the line thread earlier this week in which she shared information about the importance of May 27th for Australian Aborigines. Few people have posted to that thread, perhaps because it has the sub-title "folk-lore", or maybe because some people who post below the line don't check out and post to the above the line threads.

For those who may have missed that thread thread.cfm?threadid=101934&messages=7 here's an excerpt from Hilda's initial post:

Subject: Folklore: 1967 Aboriginal Referendum
From: hilda fish - PM
Date: 25 May 07 - 04:27 PM

The referendum of 27 May 1967 allowed my people to be counted as citizens of our own country. Prior to that we were listed as 'fauna', as 'vermin' to be dealt with. In global terms the event, it is said, that people most remember is what they were doing when JFK was assasinated. For my people it is our response to the results of that referendum. I remember my Elders crying and crying and myself with them. We did not think the Australian people cared. I remember, and I was a very young woman then who did not know much, that I was so happy because I KNEW that whatever my children, born and unborn, had to go through, it would never be as bad as what my Grandmother, Mother and myself had grown up with. There is nothing worse than living in the shadow at the edge of human as rats in the drain. Tomorrow it will be 40 years since that referendum was passed. So.......can you raise your glasses with me? And here's to 40 years on, when there are other fights and other horrors but none as bad as that."

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I've started this thread without Hilda's prior knowledge, to encouragae folks to raise a glass with Hilda in celebration of this important day for her people-and in a wider sense, for all the world's people.

My preference is that folks post on Hilda's initial thread. Or Mudcat members and guests who have not done so yet, and wish to do so, can post their well wishes to Hilda Fish and her people on this thread.

Either way, I hope that we show Hilda some love!