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There is a lot of people still alive who effected by the goverments policy, and they don't want a apology off you, they want it off the goverment
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Are you joking? Frankly, considering that us white folk (eg- our govt.) COULD just be COMPLETE assholes, not give them ANY land as they have been given (I'm not saying that couldn't have been more)...not to mention the buttload more financial benefits and educational schemes, work placement...etc they're offered as an ongoing "apology", for which they do little more than be of a certain race to receive...I think the govt has done all it's about to. Does that make up for atrocities commited by our ancestors to theirs, no, not by a long shot...however, you clearly misunderstood the situation I was referring to in my post...to make it clear, I was referring to not only indigenous australians, but tension between all races living here, appearing to be smaller by comparison, which I believe they are.
However, since we're on the topic, the parts of my statement pertaining to the people of which you speak - I was talking about the assholes that with as many things made available to them to give them a good start (better than white peeps of exactly the same financial profile), yet sit around with hateful attitudes which they endorse in their own children (hence the attitudes still existing today), jobless and loving it, while taxes pay them to do so. Gimme Gimme Gimme.
It's a fucking disgrace, and unfortunately, these people will go nowhere in life, and DO in fact perpetuate their side of the continuing tension between the remaining indigenous australians, and anglos in this country...and so on, and so on.
There ARE many indigenous Australians that HAVE made something of themselves, risen above all the bullshit, and are actually happy, successful people - and guess what? If you bring up the topic of Australian history in conversation with these guys/gals...do you think they come up with the same "well, all whites are cunts, end of story" bullshit that the aforementioned bludgers do? No. They're mature, non-racist people who have realised that crying about the past will only keep them there, and have adapted to the culture which has (albeit forceably) thrust itself upoon them. How do I know this? Two personal friends of mine, students, like me. Not to mention their family. Nothing more offered to them than others, starting from the same situation as all their people. The difference? They took advantage of what WAS offered to them, and theyre in the process of actually doing something with their lives. I respect this tremendously.
Holding onto hate has never given benefit to any of their people.
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know people in their 50's who tell me of the time, of how they weren't allowed in town after dark were paid lower wages, or weren't even allowed to buy thier own home.
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Yes, in the past...just as they were forced to ride down the back of public buses, and refused entry into certain establishments.
Does this happen any more? Certainly not any place near me...but then, you DO live in Tasmania, things may be a little different there.
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so if you think Australia isn't a racist country or anything bad thing were only done to people who are long dead, then you're a bigger idiot than i first thought.
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I said the issues were long dead. which they largely are.
I never said there wasn't racial tension here, or racism for that matter...my first statement, the one you've actually quoted me on, clearly indicated that I though otherwise. However, I was speaking in comparison to the USA, where from what I've heard, racial issues are FAR more tense, and prevalent. As I also said, this could have been from the sheer capacity of people within the USA...so next time, read my fucking post correctly, and try to get it through your thick head before mouthing off in an attempt to bait me into an argument yet again, as always, as big an idiot as I KNOW you are, you fucking nitwit jerk.