Thanks, Russ. At least somebody had the grace to apologize. I don't think the word apologize is in our national lexicon. Can you IMAGINE what would happen if Obama were to apologize on behalf of the nation for our infection, slaughter, displacement, and confinement of indigenous Americans. [shudder] N
-----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Russell Standish Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 11:08 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How to avoid shootings On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:56:44PM -0700, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > And you forgot our genocide? For some reason I imagine that the > Australian genocide was less vicious. I hope the Australians on the > list will weigh in on that. N > > > Sadly, our treatment of the Aborigines was pretty appalling, right up to 1968, when they were finally given the vote and recognised as citizens of our country. And that included mass genocide, in places like Tasmania, and kidnapping of children by the state. It looks like our generation has finally made some effort to apologise, and fix up the mess created by previous generations, but there is still a long way to go before there is true equality between aboriginal and non-aboriginal people. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
