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I apologise, I am not blaming you for anything. Am blaming people in general as they are fucking shite to other groups. Unless you personally did all this. Which you didn't.
Am chatting about the situation.
Have had the fortune to meet a few aboriginal artists visiting the UK, spend a few days talking and listening. God that sounds pretentious, but was more a humbling experience.
Stopped reading about what went on as the more I read the more I was ashamed. Not sure I would (read that as quite sure I would not) be as understanding and accepting. Is that the right Word as I suspect it isn't.
It is easy for us to talk about this. We have a privilege ;) just talking.
What is the point you are trying to make? One person becomes famous and gets citizenship. Took ten years and a referendum for all of the people who were there first to get some rights.
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Unless you personally did all this.
Well. Nobody alive today did. But plenty are holding an apologist / revisionist / indifferent stance towards historic crimes committed.
Like I said, I'm a non citizen here. I have an outsider's view on all of this. But I also hail from the country that gassed the Jews. Dealing with collective inherited guilt is something that was part of my upbringing. Although looking at recent political development in my home country one could say that lessons seemingly learnt can be forgotten also.
Which brings me to my point above: in the current society in many Western countries, with the erosion of trust and accepted truths, referendums seem to be a vehicle to the very bottom of the pit. The pull that the wreckers have on society via scare campaigns, targeted misinformation, cynical twisting of words, social media and outright lies is something that modern society seems unable to counteract.
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What is the point you are trying to make? One person becomes famous and gets citizenship. Took ten years and a referendum for all of the people who were there first to get some rights.
Exactly this.
And not only that but he got treated very harshly in the NT afterwards, still, fame or not.
pascalo
How do you come to the conclusion that I'm trying to paint a great picture?
Of course Albert Namatjira did exactly that, and it made him a hugely important figure in the recognition of aboriginal people in Australia.
I was pointing to the article about him as a reference using the term "ward of the state" and a source that illustrates the hardships aboriginal people in Australia faced.
I think whether they fought back or not aboriginal peoples got massacred, given the forces they were facing. Read up about the "frontier wars" if you want to learn more about that shameful chapter in Australia's history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_frontier_wars