The Forum > Article Comments > Say 'No' to 'Recognise' > Comments
Say 'No' to 'Recognise' : Comments
By Syd Hickman, published 6/3/2015To try and cast three per-cent of the Australian people as 'ATSI' people, separate from the rest of us and needing public campaigning to make them feel better, is appalling.
- Pages:
-
- 1
- Page 2
- 3
- 4
-
- All
What I have read in many of the proposed changes to the constitution, is either:
1. A statement so vague and meaningless that is would never have any impact on anyone living in the real world.
or
2. An attempt by some groups to entrench some sort of privilege for themselves through the legal separation of Australians based on race.
Due to the need for a referendum, approach #2 would never succeed. I truly think Australians are open to equal rights, but we do recognize that positive discrimination is still discrimination, and therefore not equal rights. Due to the fact that so many of us are recent immigrants (within a few generations), we don't accept the guilt that so many bleeding hearts want us to feel. Our families came to this country with very little, and often faced discrimination based on race, religion or culture too. Blaming of "white" people for any events in history not only ignores the fact that none of us were even here 200 years ago, but also that most non-aboriginal people are not even descendent from those you wish to blame.
I was born in Australia, and I will never accept that anyone is somehow a better or more important Australian than me due to their race.
Once people can get over this fact, we can start to move on as a country together.