Frank wrote on Jul 20
th, 2019 at 7:31pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Jul 20
th, 2019 at 5:30pm:
Mr Hammer wrote on Jul 20
th, 2019 at 4:28pm:
You're missing the point, Brian. We all have ancestries. We all, therefore, have 'ancestral lands'. I can acquire my ancestral land. It's called a mortgage.
And once you have acquired your ancestral lands you can then hand them onto your descendents, Hammer. Can Indigenous Australians?
Yes, they can.
They do. We have endless dam 'welcome to dam cuntry' ceremonies. What's that about? respect for elders past and present?? They were pretty patriarchal and unsavoury, those elders and preside over the abuse of women and children, still very big, with all that 40, 60, 80 thousand year cultural memory and practice still operating. I don't mind them being savages. We don't all have to be suburban yokels. I just don't like the pretence that they aren't savages. I would have a lot more respect for them if the OWNED their savagery.
Oh, really, Soren? I'm sure you'd love them to be as savage as they were once. Then you'd feel justified with your racism and your insults. I wonder though, how your Psychiatry would work against a band of tribal men, armed with spears, coming at you with murder in their eyes?
Today, Indigenous Australians are only recognised to have a say in their ancestral lands. They can't own them, they cannot bequeath them to their descendents. Whites? Guess what? They can own land, have it vested in their name and they can hand it down to their descendents. Funny that, hey, Soren?
Now, bugger off to your little kiddies' playground where you can roll in your mud patch, all day long.