Thanks for the information and the perspective,Jim.
We must not be sidetracked into spending time arguing against the racist
white- blindfold view of Australian history rather than spending time trying
to convince non -indigenous Australians that the demands of Aboriginal
people must be met if a just Reconciliation is to be achieved.
Laurie
Laurie and Desley Forde [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jim Duffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, April 06, 2000 2:37 AM
Subject: [recoznet2] DIRECTION
>
>Oh dear,
>
>They've succeeded. "We're going to advance, send reinforcements" has
become
>"We're going to a dance, send three and fourpence..."
>
>Having to re-invent the wheel is such a boring foci when so much is in need
of
>energy.
>
>I've lost count of the number of times I've read "race" in missives and
worse,
>seen it go unquestioned.
>
>Then we see mandatory sentencing debated to hell, and again the foci is
lost.
>Sure compulsory imprisonment is bad, but its a universal in this racist
nation,
>and mandatory sentencing is only the tip of the iceberg. We must be
perceptive
>enough to see not the iceberg, but its parent glacier. Indigenous men in
this
>state (WA) are imprisoned at a rate of over 5,000 per 100,000! We have
been
>diverted people.
>
>Please browse to:
>
>http://www.kultcher.com/Race.htm
>
>for an overview of our "race" problem. You might like to know that I await
>prosecution for refusal to vote in the referendum because of section 25 of
our
>racist constitution.
>
>On the question of the genocide, see this one:
>
>http://www.omen.net.au/~dicwc/Promises.html
>
>and then this:
>
>http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/research/dp/8/genocide.htm
>
>Colin Tatz as the Director of the Centre for Genocide Studies at Macquarie
uni
>is, I suggest, a world authority on the issue.
>
>As a person born in a Nazi camp I feel for any victims of a genocide
denied,
>but I get bloody angry at the denial merchants to the point of homicide
>becoming justifiable.
>
>If you wonder who wrote the PMs Dept paper on an "assessment" of the
"Bringing
>them home..." report, have a look ant any Brunton Paper at:
>
>http://www.ipa.org.au/
>
>Its the public information arm of the Sam Griffiths Society, which is a
>publicly acceptable face to the League of Rights.
>
>We make South Africa look squeaky clean...
>
>I'll get back to you after I vomit....
>
>jim
>
>
>|\/\/\/|* Jim Duffield* GMT+08 * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>| o o|
>C _) "[Colonialism] creates a culture in which the ruled
>| ,____| are constantly tempted to fight their rulers within
>| / the psychological limits set by the latter."
>| |
> Ashis Nandy
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