Pedro Curevo wrote on Jan 26
th, 2020 at 12:31pm:
I see it this Mr Hammer....The pendulum swinging the other way on education for Aboriginal people isn't a bad thing, money well spent, nor a bad thing that Aboriginal people getting other benefits to help them gain control of their future and catch up to the rest of society.
(Are not there programs for new immigrants and your avg citizen....??)
The idea that Aboriginals are gaining an advantage is simply based on prejudice when for so long they haven't had the same advantage as other people, it has to be seen as catch up adavantage and not a monetary advantage until a time when there needs to be no catch up required for first people.
If only it was the amount of money that made the difference... the trouble, as mothra the activist freely admits, is getting the kids to actually attend school and bother to learn.
On all your other blurbs - you should, for equality's sake, put all other disadvantaged groups in the same basket... countless young white people grew up without very much, too, you know.... and they don't all live the same way as some Aboriginals do... but it would sometimes be nice to see a little 'affirmative action' thrown their way, too.
It isn't only Aboriginals who suffer abuse and deprivation as children, you know...
I see in the demos today they want more Aboriginal ownership of land - fair enough - that means a plot to live and build on like everyone else - not just huge swathes of prime land with which to do nothing, and from which all others are excluded.
That, my son, is part of 'catching up'... not just endless unthought out demands for anything and everything without let.
Nobody hands any other group huge swathes of land to do nothing with..... and there are plenty of struggling people out there..... not just Aborigines.
I say settle claims once and for all - excluding national icons etc which are common property of the nation - and that's it. If they can't make a go of it given a plot of ground in their 'traditional area', and with help to build a home on it - they cannot be helped.
Nobody else gets endless gifts of housing and land etc - I pay for mine, then my kids do and their kids... nobody gives us anything for free for having been here for many generations now.
You getting there yet? It's called Equality - an issue that evades many... or that many choose to evade...
"until a time when there needs to be no catch up required for first people" .... when is that likely to be? They have all rights extant.... all that seems to be left is to ensure they have a roof over their head, and that they can get a job to keep going...
However, given the history of 'feminism' from which all these 'movements' learned so very much - they will NEVER accept that there is no further need to spoon feed them.... and all that happens is that each successive act of appeasement by governments, giving one thing more than one thing more, is only a stepping stone to greater demands and the next demand.... there has to be a line drawn somewhere - same as with the feminists... where society says NO More! You are now Equal and go your own way without crutches and special schooling and half-way house jobs etc...
Before you jump up and down and spout empty rhetoric - tell us what Rights Aborigines do not hold in this nation... (and other groups of citizens, of course)... there's a start ...
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