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I am an Aboriginal woman, and my people are hurting : Comments
By Samantha Cooper, published 4/6/2020Reconciliation Week is exhausting at the best of times. Now more than ever, we are bombarded with tidal waves of racism and ignorance.
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Coming from a family of soldiers, I was quite happy to go to Vietnam and shoot a few commies. But I am also a student of military history and I know that too many young men had gone to war and died for nothing. I like to know what I am getting into. So I read books by journalists, soldiers, and historians about Vietnam, and realised that the war was crazy.
After the war ended, many young people like myself thought that right wing people were completely stupid and that we were going to change the world. South African apartheid was the next "cause celebre" for young people like myself who wanted to display our supposed superior intelligence and moral virtue. But just like Vietnam, I needed to know what I as talking about.
So I did the same thing I did with Vietnam, found out as much as I could, even reading what the Boers wrote about apartheid. Their premise was that black Africans had low intelligence, seemed to be genetically more inclined towards mindless violence than white people, and were incapable of running a modern society. I took that with a grain of salt until I saw white Rhodesia, (the bread basket of Africa) fall to the blacks, descend into mass slaughter where the whites fled, and now they are all starving to death.
Everything I see today supports the Boers view. Poverty and crime is primarily a product of low intelligence and if certain ethnicities are very disproportionately represented in inter generational welfare dependence and serious crime, then join the dots yourself.
What I see in the USA was a stupid white policeman who accidently killed a black man, probably because the white police is absolutely fed up of dealing with out of control blacks who never stop committing crimes. That was enough excuse for the dumbest and most violent segment of US society to riot and blame their lack of success on the white population, upon whom they are dependent for their welfare cheques.
It is Rhodesia all over again.