#bray the tribe

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This white hooded robe with purple, blue, golden and silver broderi belt is worn two times in The Tribe, First worn on Damon Andrews as The Guardian in Season 3 Episode 4 (2000) and worn again later on Dwayne Cameron as Bray in Season 3 Episode 40 (2001)

[baifengxis]

ULTIMATE SHIPPER CHALLENGE: [5/10] UNFORGETTABLE SCENES BRAY & AMBER SEASON 3, EPISODE 30 THE TRIBE (1999-2003)

[zhoufeis]

[2/10] FAVORITE ON-SCREEN KISSES ↳ Look at him. Why is he here? Have you asked yourself that? Because he loves you, dummy. And you love him.

BETH ALLEN and DWAYNE CAMERON as AMBER and BRAY THE TRIBE. New Zealand, 1999.

[reusedtvseriescostumes]

This white hooded robe with purple, blue, golden and silver broderi belt is worn two times in The Tribe, First worn on Damon Andrews as The Guardian in Season 3 Episode 4 (2000) and worn again later on Dwayne Cameron as Bray in Season 3 Episode 40 (2001)

[tribeworld]

[reusedrobescostumes]

This White hooded robe is worn two times in The Tribe, First worn on Damon Andrews as The Guardian in Season 3 Episode 4 (2000) and worn again later on Dwayne Cameron as Bray in Season 3 Episode 40 (2001)

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This White hooded robe has been used twice in the television series The Tribe. It was seen in 2000 first on Damon Andrews as The Guardian, and then on Dwayne Cameron as Bray in 2001.

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This White Hooded robe has been used twice in the television series The Tribe. It was seen in 2000 first on Damon Andrews as The Guardian and then on Dwayne Cameron as Bray in 2001.

[anneh91-us]

[winchesternova-k]

this is all correct, except that bray is Māori, not native american (there’s some casual racism regarding him and tai san being somewhat mismashed in cultures, which i think is probably most egregious in season 1 [take that with a grain of salt tho, as i’m not part of any of the groups impacted])

season 4 and 5 are specifically the cyberpunk seasons. season 2 and 3 are about religious cults, and season 1 is a general “how to learn to live with and get along with complete strangers after a world ending catastrophe” theme. despite the themes being very different in each section, the story itself is mostly consistent i think, and the characters are extremely compelling.

All these cyberpunk-themed tabletop RPGs on itch.io and not one of them that aims for the vibe of those goofy-ass Canadian YA cyberpunk shows that aired on YTV back in the 1990s. You know the ones:

the protagonist is named something safely conventional like Kyle or Jake, while every single other kid is sporting a moniker like "Glitch" or "Fractal" or "K C" with absolutely no indication that these aren't the names their parents gave them

everybody's wearing an eleven-year-old white kid's idea of what hip-hop fashion looks like, except for the ambiguously teenage principal villain, who's sporting a Spirit Halloween knockoff of a random military uniform

90% of the show is clearly filmed in some anonymous industrial park, apart from a handful of flashbacks which were probably shot in the producer's house

the writing seems to be unclear on the distinction between "hacker" and "wizard"; there's a strong possibility none of the writers have ever actually used a computer in their lives

Ryan Reynolds is there

I swear I'll write it myself if I have to.

[reasonsforhope]

"Growing up, Mackenzee Thompson always wanted a deeper connection with her tribe and culture.

The 26-year-old member of the Choctaw Nation said she grew up outside of her tribe’s reservation and wasn’t sure what her place within the Indigenous community would be.

Through a first-of-its-kind program, Thompson said she’s now figured out how she can best serve her people — as a doctor.

Thompson is graduating as part of the inaugural class from Oklahoma State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation. It’s the first physician training program on a Native American reservation and in affiliation with a tribal government, according to school and tribal officials.

“I couldn’t even have dreamed this up,” she said. “To be able to serve my people and learn more about my culture is so exciting. I have learned so much already.”

Thompson is one of nine Native graduates, who make up more than 20 percent of the class of 46 students, said Dr. Natasha Bray, the school’s dean. There are an additional 15 Native students graduating from the school’s Tulsa campus.

The OSU-COM graduates include students from 14 different tribes, including Cherokee, Choctaw, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, Alaska Native, Caddo, and Osage.

Bray said OSU partnered with the Cherokee Nation to open the school in 2020 to help erase the shortage of Indigenous doctors nationwide. There are about 841,000 active physicians practicing in the United States. Of those, nearly 2,500 — or 0.3 percent — are Native American, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

When American Indian and Alaska Native people visit Indian Health Service clinics, there aren’t enough doctors or nurses to provide “quality and timely health care,” according to a 2018 report from the Government Accountability Office. On average, a quarter of IHS provider positions — from physicians to nurses and other care positions –are vacant.

“These students here are going to make a generational impact,” Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. told the students days before graduation. “There is such a need in this state and in this region for physicians and this school was created out of a concern about the pipeline of doctors into our health system.”

The Cherokee Nation spent $40 million to build the college in its capital of Tahlequah. The walls of the campus feature artifacts of Cherokee culture as well as paintings to remember important figures from Cherokee history. An oath of commitment on the wall is written in both English and Cherokee.

The physician training program was launched in the first year of the pandemic.

Bray said OSU and Cherokee leadership felt it was important to have the school in the heart of the Cherokee Nation, home to more than 141,000 people, because students would be able to get experience treating Indigenous patients. In Tahlequah, students live and study in a small town about an hour east of Tulsa with a population of less than 24,000 people.

“While many students learn about the problems facing these rural communities,” Bray said. “Our students are getting to see them firsthand and learn from those experiences.”

While students from the college are free to choose where to complete their residency after graduation, an emphasis is placed on serving rural and Indigenous areas of the country.

There’s also a severe lack of physicians in rural America, a shortage that existed before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Association of American Medical Colleges has projected that rural counties could see a shortage between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034. An additional 180,000 doctors would be needed in rural counties and other underserved populations to make up the difference.

Bray said OSU saw an opportunity to not only help correct the underrepresentation of Native physicians but also fill a workforce need to help serve and improve health care outcomes in rural populations.

“We knew we’d need to identify students who had a desire to serve these communities and also stay in these communities,” she said.

Osteopathic doctors, or DOs, have the same qualifications and training as allopathic doctors, or MDs, but the two types of doctors attend different schools. While MDs learn from traditional programs, DOs take on additional training at osteopathic schools that focus on holistic medicine, like how to reduce patient discomfort by physically manipulating muscles and bones. DOs are more likely to work in primary care and rural areas to help combat the health care shortages in those areas.

As part of the curriculum, the school invited Native elders and healers to help teach students about Indigenous science and practices...

Thompson said she was able to bring those experiences into her appointments. Instead of asking only standard doctor questions, she’s been getting curious and asking about her patient’s diets, and if they are taking any natural remedies.

“It’s our mission to be as culturally competent as we can,” she said. “Learning this is making me not only a better doctor but helping patients trust me more.”

-via PBS NewsHour, May 23, 2024

[the-empress-7]

Empress, welcome back! What do you think of Meghan's new Nigerian Princess title?

I'm thinking the braying laughter of a hundred upper class drawing rooms, upon hearing the news, should have been heard from space - only no one cares about them any longer, not even to laugh at them. But this means the two grifters no longer - never ever - get a single proper dinner invite, right?

The tour was a total Wales cosplay, done badly. But the press is ever ready to sing their praises, and Charles is still ignoring the problem. Meghan's terrible fashion choices are still entertaining, though. Worst dressed celebrity for the last 6 years and counting.

There is no such thing as a Nigerian Princess, since Nigeria as a country doesn't have a monarchy. Although it is true that there are tribes in Nigeria with titles, unless Meghan can prove she descended from a specific tribe in Nigeria the Princess title is meaningless. Not only that, the titles of nobility in Nigeria don't serve a purpose beyond being deeply meaningful to a specific tribe, meaning it's not like the many Kings and Queens serve a constitutional purpose or get to automatically serve as members of the Parliament (e.g. The House of Lords in the UK). Nevertheless the many Kings and Queens within Nigeria serve a very important purpose, which is to preserve the customs and traditions of their respective communities and they take this job very seriously.

"From 1960 to 1963, Nigeria was a sovereign state and an independent constitutional monarchy. Nigeria shared the monarch with Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and certain other sovereign states. The monarch's constitutional roles were mostly delegated to the governor-general of Nigeria.

Elizabeth II was the only monarch to reign during this period. As such, she was officially titled Queen of Nigeria.

The monarchy was abolished on 1 October 1963, when Nigeria adopted a president as its head of state."

How exactly can Meghan be a Princess when the country itself has no Monarch?

[tevantarlos]

Things I'm Bitter About When It Comes to The Tribe:

Alice and Ellie were never reunited. We saw in season 5 that Alice was alive, along with KC and The Guardian and on the island of the Deleted. I was really hoping they would be reunited in the season/series finale, but no. Fans were left forever hanging.

Bray never got to know or raise his son. I don't give a shit about Amber or Bramber, but I liked Bray's character, and feel like he got screwed.

We never got a full resolution with Tai-San. We saw her as a Techno in S4, I think, or early S5, and then she disappeared. Mega and Ram made comments/dropped hints that she was/might still be alive on the island of the Deleted.

Cloe and Ved were sent to the island of the Deleted and Ram, Mega, and Jay claimed they were all dead. We never got to find out if that was true. The actors were fired because they were dating and tptb didn't like that, so they canned them.

We never fully found out if Danni was dead, until an interview with Raymond Thompson in 2020, where he was asked by a fan if she was, and he said he couldn't say anything because it would spoil the next book. We need a confirmation either way.

[reusedtvseriescostumes]

This Hat with Goggles is worn three times in The Tribe, First worn on Daniel James as Zoot in Season 1 Episode 1 (1999) and worn second on Dwayne Cameron as Bray in Season 3 Episode 33 (2001) and later worn on Joseph Crawford as Darryl in Season 5 Episode 10 (2003)

[tribeworld]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Wilfred Reilly

Published: Nov 10, 2023

When your enemies tell you their goals, believe them.

Over the past three weeks, a lot of crazy sh** has been said about the Jews. Following the October 7 onset of hostilities between the nation of Israel and the terrorist group Hamas (sometimes billed as the “nation of Palestine”), a group of tens of thousands of recent migrants to Australia, university students, and others gathered in scenic downtown Sydney and quite literally chanted “Gas the Jews!” At 30–40 other large rallies, including this one in my hometown of Chicago, the cris de coeur were the just slightly less radical “From the river to the sea!” — a call for the elimination of the Jewish state of Israel — and “What is the solution? Intifada! Revolution!”

As has been documented to death by now, some 34 prominent student organizations (bizarrely including Amnesty International) at America’s third-best university, Harvard, signed on to a petition that assigned the “apartheid” state of Israel 100 percent of the blame for the current war — and indeed for the Hamas atrocities that began it. At another college, New York City’s Cooper Union, a group of Jewish students was apparently trapped inside a small campus library for hours by a braying pro-Palestinian mob. And so on.

In response to such open and gleeful hatred, more than a few conventional liberals — from comedienne Amy Schumer to the admittedly more heterodox Bill Maher — seem to have had their eyes fully opened as to who their keffiyeh-wearing “allies” truly are . . . at least when it comes specifically to Jewish people. But there is a deeper point, rarely made outside of the hard right, that lurks just beyond the mainstream’s discovery of rampant hard-left antisemitism: The same campus radicals and general hipster fauna quite regularly say worse things about a whole range of other groups than they do about Jews.

Whites — regular ol’ Caucasian Americans — represent probably the largest and most obvious such target group. As right-leaning but quite popular figures, such as the various Daily Wire personalities, are beginning to note, open hatred of white people has become something of a pillar of modern leftism. A Google search for the phrase “the problem is white men” turns up an astonishing 2,140,000,000 mostly on-point (at least as per the first 20 pages) results — including such gems as the former CNN feature piece titled “There’s Nothing More Frightening in America Today Than an Angry White Man.”

Quite prominent figures regularly say completely insane things about the suntan-challenged. Tenured Rutgers University academic “Professor Crunk” — still flatteringly described on the place’s website as an “unapologetic Black feminist” focused on “accelerating the pace of change” — recently described all Caucasians as villainous monsters on national television, and argued frankly for “taking the motherf***ers out.”

Around the same time, massively popular Wild ’N Out TV host Nick Cannon received considerable heat for some antisemitic comments he made on the air . . . but essentially none for saying that white people are “savages” and “a little less” than black people and other so-called people of color. Far further toward the true fringe, of course, the recently released written manifesto of Nashville’s Covenant Christian school shooter focused largely on hate for the white national majority. The shooter at one point actually noted “white privilege” as a motivating factor behind her murder spree.

Speaking as a conservative black man, I will note that whites hardly stand alone as a target group for modern leftist rhetoric. A few high-school scuffles aside, almost literally the only people ever to call me a “n*****” or a “coon” have been left-bloc activists — mostly white — accusing me of somehow betraying my tribe. More prominent black conservatives, such as Larry Elder, have faced Chappelle’s Show–level accusations of being “black white supremacists” and “black faces of white supremacy.” A short list of other groups that fairly regularly experience get-on-the-train-style rhetoric might include the rich (“Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist”), gender-critical women (“Punch/Kill TERFS!”), practicing traditional Christians, and in some real sense all non-Indigenous Westerners (“Decolonize NOW!”).

I recommend a radical approach to all of this facially vile speech: Sane, armed conservatives should believe what the speakers are saying, and take it seriously. At present, pervasive upper-middle-class postmodernism has significantly influenced even the Western Right, to such an extent that we regularly see serious editorialists and TV men treating things like a full soccer stadium chanting “Kill the Boer . . . kill the white farmer . . . bang bang!!!” as some sort of amusing metaphor — perhaps referencing South Africa’s ongoing spate of lawsuits over land rights.

Against this tortured reading, I — not being an idiot — suggest an alternative explanation: When intelligent adult humans say that they do not like whites, or Jews, or wealthy blacks, and want to kill them, I propose that they mean they do not like whites, or Jews, or wealthy blacks, and want to kill them. When citizens say that all American whites are privileged lairds who should lose most of the positions they currently hold, or that minorities can never be effectively racist (unless they’re conservative), or that “the only cure for past discrimination is present discrimination,” or that we need a federal Department of Antiracism with the ability to regulate every business in the U.S., or that borrowing ideas from other cultures should be socially toxic or even illegal, or that “colonizers” should be killed . . . they mean it.

So, what to do about all of this, once it is taken seriously? A simple answer would seem to be: React the way that any sane person would to an opponent saying that they hate or wish to kill him. In the wake of the pro-Hamas statements emanating not merely from Harvard but also quite a few other universities following the atrocities of October 7, many donors closed their wallets for good or emphatically threatened to — and this makes hard sense as a form of punishment. At least a dozen major firms are publicly refusing to hire students from any of the Harvard 34, and — whether you approve of this development or not — we seem to be moving toward a sort of “mutually assured destruction” re: cancel culture, which should eventually result in true free speech for all or a return to some damned manners.

All of this (and quite a bit more that is yet to come) is good, proper, and sorely overdue. A third or so of the country has been telling us exactly who they are for the past 50 years. It is long past time that we started listening to them — and responding appropriately.

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When intelligent adult humans say that they do not like whites, or Jews, or wealthy blacks, and want to kill them, I propose that they mean they do not like whites, or Jews, or wealthy blacks, and want to kill them.

I've been saying for years: believe them when they tell you what they're up to.

There's a tendency for well-meaning people of good conscience to reinterpret the claims and demands of radical activists through their own liberal values.

Someone who agrees that racist and/or violent police officers should be identified and fired is susceptible to taking the demand for "defund the police," and moderating that into, well, they just mean put on more social workers, or maybe they could shoot them in the leg, or why are police spending so much time in predominantly black neighborhoods, all of which are stupid, cost innocent lives, and aren't what affected communities even want. Even though the activist means what they mean and screams it unapologetically.

This is comparable to religious moderates who temper their own scripture. Jesus doesn't really mean to kill your disobedient children, it's... just a metaphor? Jihad isn't really a call to war, it's just... a deep personal struggle?

This is understandable, because reasonable people don't want to be associated with insane ideas. But it doesn't change the scripture or what the fanatics want. The activists are still going to do what they're going to do, and you're going to look foolish or dishonest for saying otherwise.

It's far better to disassociate yourself from the tribalism entirely and instead say, "this is what I mean." You might get some flack from your "tribe" for not supporting them or falling into lockstep, but you'll at least be true to yourself. And maybe learn whether the tribalism was a good idea at all.

Of course, this is more difficult with religion, since what you mean is largely irrelevant to what your god wants and betrays the human-made nature of the religion and the god. That won't stop we non-believers from noticing and pointing it out, though.

Believe them when they tell you what they're up to. And then decide if you want to be a part of that.