Mentoring Indigenous Inmates | Uncle Jack Charles | TEDxSydney
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2017
- Australian Actor, writer, Aboriginal elder, former heroin addict, thief and prison inmate, Uncle Jack Charles has finally been allowed into prisons as a mentor to indigenous inmates and shares his inspiring journey. At the end of this short talk, Uncle Jack Charles is joined by Aboriginal elder and musician, Archie Roach for a performance of the song, We Won’t Cry.
Uncle Jack Charles is an actor, musician, potter and gifted performer, but in his 73 years he has also been homeless, a heroin addict, a thief and a regular in Victoria’s prisons. A member of the Stolen Generation, Jack has spent his life in between acting gigs, caught in the addiction/crime/doing time cycle. Today - no longer caught in the cycle - he lives to tell the extraordinary tale.
Acknowledged as the grandfather of Aboriginal theatre in Australia, Uncle Jack co-founded the first Aboriginal theatre company Nindethana in 1972. His acting career spans over six decades. Uncle Jack was the subject of Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s award-winning documentary Bastardy, and was awarded the prestigious Tudawali Award at the Message Sticks Festival in 2009, honouring his lifetime contribution to Indigenous media. He was also recipient of a Green Room Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.
Uncle Jack made headlines in October last year when he was refused a taxi unless he paid the fare upfront, just moments after he was named Victorian Senior Australian of the Year for 2016.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Some people are just born wonderful, and experiences make them more awesome.
Great talk and beautiful singing and guitar playing too, the harmonies were gorgeous. Thanks for stepping up to the plate Uncle Jack and being there doing the job for the young people who are coming up against the unfair machine-like system.
May you rest in peace. I’m glad to have grown up with your narration.
Vale Uncle Jack Charles, you are greatly missed.
I like the man. He is honest, and crafted greatly through the school of hard knocks.
A true hero...l wish Jack was PM he can see so clearly whats needed
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Im a Ted x Talk addict and this is one of the best talks ive ever seen !!! Inspiring !
Beautiful! Thank you dear Uncle Jack. (And Archie and friend) love you 😍
I learn this today from a Native lady in Hawaii; We are not homeless only houseless because this is our homeland
thank you for this
Why doesn't she have a house ??
Maybe she should buy or rent one like everyone else has too in the modern world.
@@warwicklewis8735 it has nothing to do with rent, she is speaking about how she is connected to her land and community which means she is never homeless because the land is her home.
@@warwicklewis8735why does any homeless person not have a house? Are homeless people not a part of society? Where are you going with your point if not alienating indigenous nations and ignoring the existence of homeless people in first world countries
@@blakenorris9493 it is not me who is assigning a social homelessness ranking based on race
I was calling out the ideological propaganda
Claiming hierarchical victim status based on ancestry
While ignoring that homelessness aflicts people from all demographics
Sounds like you were loved by many RIP brother Uncle❤.
thank you :)
I'm a white skin wurundjeri man
and recently found myself in trouble for the first time. and this found it's way to me and I think this is very special.
thank you :)
You're a Caucasian pretending to be something you are not.
You're a national treasure uncle Jack.
How poignant that Jack Charles and Archie Roach performed this song together before both their recent passing. Too precious.
I have to admit..I didnt expect to see so much soul in the talk when I clicked on it! Pleasantly delighted!
That's not 'soul' it's sycophantic virtue signalling leavened with nauseating wokeness. Uncle Monkey Pox was a putrid grub.
This guy should be on the advisory boards running the prison systems
Love uncle jack much love xxxxx hugs
Here in 2020....and man this country needs an overhaul. A serious all encompassing systemic overhaul where Elders have equal or maybe even sole (principal) authority over many matters of community and land as a starting point.
yes agree we need our elders to have equal rights to make decisions for us
Here here!
I will stand with you 💗
I’m so sorry uncle Jack for your lost
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Maybe it would be better if this great man was able to mentor people BEFORE they ended up in prison.
What a wonderful man
i fully agree!!!!!!
Beautiful song
Brilliant.
R.I.P. Uncle. I loved what you said in the tv show Preppers “that’s the thing with white fellas, they deny it, but they wrote it down”. 🙏🏾🖤💛❤️
Love it
Jack? You haven't changed i always seen you doing whàt you where ment to do ! Good luck my màte !!!!!????
🖤 vale
Moving! R.
Was this guy in quigley???
Hang on did you get on with your rellos after that sbs show? Are they alright?
After a very brief flirtation with ‘Uncle Jack’ some decades ago ( in Mc Arthur Place Carlton) I still think he's the sexiest man I ever jumped into the cot which
Hope you had an AIDS test lol
As a elder you have the opportunity to raise your kids right so they raise their kids right just like everyone else does
Not everyone else do.
Hang on, Hang On, Hang on, 22 Times, 22 Times you where in the Custody of VIC POL, but you survived
Sad😢 what the Europeans have done....a dam shame. Look at him. His ancestors are spinning in their graves.
Well done to this brother, whats sad is that.. aboriginals in australia have to learn another language english instead of their own and then come out to something like this to teach white people whats wrong with the systems instead of whites realising themselves. Thats just mind boggling but i guess this is the only way. Goodluck brother.
Ok ur primitive
It's British and other cultures land now 1-0
@@fragilrtoothpickleggedwhit1866convict crown lackey says what?
Sorry meant would've not, wouldn've
Rest in peace uncle jack Charles
So you are there to make an excuse for there conduct, But to tell the indigenous that its the Whiteman, is KEEPING em DOWN
He sounds like a white Australian, I wouldn've thought that the native Australians would have a different accent due to them being indigenous to the land but then he would've integrated into white Australian society so that would explain it
yes a lot of us had no choice but to assimilate into society because they built their cities and towns on top of our lands
He said it... StolenGen
@@aaronfranklin6863 Well What's done has been done though it wasn't very justified but the thing is we should all mingle together and accept each other, I've no concept of race as we're all actually one race and that is the human race. No amount of difference in skin pigmentation,facial featuring and hair texturing really makes any difference
@@joshuadaltilia8480 No but thousands of years of culture does. The issue is not skin deep, it's >50, 000 years of indigenous culture being forced to integrate with 200 years of western religion and cultural oppression.
I agree, we are all one race but we are many different cultures.
@@aaronfranklin6863 paint me a dot painting with stick of you crying a river!