Allan Stratton: Blogging from Abroad

Today I read at a Black History Month event and, because I had been hearing rumours that some of the Black Community had been wondering why so many white people were singing in Victoria's gospel choirs (myself included) and why a white reader would be asked to a Black Festival, I took a portrait that Eva Campbell, who was showing her paintings of Black Sisters at the event, had done of me to thank me for a perceived kindness a year or two back.

Mairuth Sarsfield beat me to the answer when she told the assembly, "We're sharing the spirit. That is a good thing."

"It's just me" I said, showing my painting, "A sister who left Africa a few thousand years before you did and got bleached in the snows of Northern Europe, or whatever it was called back then."