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To the Strawman My ask how you were raised as a child? Was your mother a house wife and your father a hard working Australian? Was your father a drunk, did he beat your mother and have a drugg addiction? Did you constantly have food on your table or did your father lose his pay check on alcohol and gambling. If you did come from a broken home or an abusive past then i pity your lack of compassion for labelling the present generation of aborigines as products of there own creation. Would you agree that the low socio-economic category of Anglo-Australian are the 'no-gooders' of Anglo-Australia, with high rates of drug abuse and domestic violence, who will only grow up to develop the habits of the parents? What good is it giving a drug addict a weekly pension, when they obviously need counseling and community help. The community isn't helping because people like yourself are so single minded, so ungrateful, so undeducated, and so powerful that this vicious cycle will be such a struggle to end. I can assume by your view that dont have an aborignal friends, you only percieve your opinoins by seeing a coloured person in the gutter, or through the TV. Have you ever reached out to any of these individuals. Why you might ask should you have too? Well it might give you a real interaction with the people that you so obviously despise. Have you read 'blood on the wattle', it is a novel by an Anglo Australian documenting the blooding history of White Australia and its native inhabitants. The general misconception in this country is that the rape, murder and exploitation of the Aboriginal people happened in a different life time. You speak of our 'ancestors' as the people who are responsible and that WE should not be to blame. But i ask you this. What did your father do to stop this destruction, or your grandfather, because Aborigines were still being taken from there parents up untill 1970. Maybe YOU were even around when this took place. This act was the most degrading, insulting and disastrious action which was inflicted on the Aborigine people. What kind of future would you have if your were taken as child, your identity defamed and yourself labelled a 'second citizen'. Think now when the child has children of her own. Will the parent be a addicted to drugs because she is lost in the world, been raped as a child and bred to be a servant of 'higher society'. Because the current generation is the offspring of this past, and is us that needs to act, because it is us who is responsible. Racism is the evil of humanity, we can never destroy it but we should NEVER TOLERATE IT
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