Samantha Cooper: or because I work three jobs, or because I am studying and volunteering.

It’s great to see an Aboriginal working & working hard to get ahead.

Samantha Cooper: This week as thousands of people take to the streets to protest police brutality after the horrifying murder of George Floyd.

George was a known Criminal being arrested for Forgery at the time. The Media has failed to mention that.

Samantha Cooper: and a New South Wales police officer is under investigation for throwing a young Aboriginal man not resisting to the ground on his face.

The young man that threaten the Policeman with violence. The Media keeps failing to mention that. The tactic they used is used on anyone resisting arrest, Black or White.

Samantha Cooper: The systemic racism in Australia means my people are thirteen times more likely to be incarcerated than a non-indigenous person, we are thirty per cent of the prison population and only three per cent of the people of Australia.

Because of Racism it only 13% more. If Racism want involved that percentage would be much higher. Most Aboriginal Criminals are let off, because they are Aboriginal, for PC reasons.
If they didn’t keep committing crimes they wouldn’t be serving time.

Samantha Cooper: Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991 we have lost 432 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custody.

Some of these suicides are, “I’ll show you.” suicides. They don’t have to commit suicide. That is a personal decision.

Samantha Cooper: I watched an excellent lawyer and a compassionate police officer keep family members out of prison.

Then they go straight out & show their appreciation of your good works by committing another crime. Knowing that they are being protected by gullible people like yourself.

Samantha Cooper: For equality.

You have equality. If you like to use it properly.

Samanther Cooper: Think before you speak.
I have thought about it. A Lot. I refuse to take the blame for something I personally was not a part of causing.

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Cont.
Samanther Cooper: the treatment of black people for hundreds of years which has resulted in thousands of lives lost,

Admittedly the treatment of Aboriginal People 250 to 100 years ago was one of total indifference. Mostly the reason was the same as why Australia wasn’t settled by any other nation, even the Chinese. The people were regarded as being too primitive, too extreme, there was nothing they had of any value that any nation could trade for or even want. Sandal Wood, Camphor & Beached De Mer could be just taken.
Samanther Coopper: children removed,

Hmmm…What was the primary reason children were removed? Did it have anything to do with Child Abuse by the Elders? Was it because they were Mulatto & not accepted by the Tribe so left, beaten, raped & not allowed to be integrated into the Tribe? No0one has yet been proven to have been a “Removed” person in a Court of Law. All those who have made the claim have been proven to be otherwise. Some even being White People

Cont. Again

Samantha Cooper: land pillaged, sacred places destroyed and intergenerational trauma for hundreds of years.

Yes, unfortunately, that is true. Then again, it’s hard to know what is really a Sacred Place & what is not. The “Bridge” in South Australia & “Secret Women’s” Business comes to mind.

On that note. I come from North Queensland. I went to school & worked with many Islanders. Those people weren’t considered as part of the Aboriginal Structure (Black) in Australia. They wanted to be but were denied by the Aboriginal agencies in Australia at the time. They weren’t entitled to free School, Medical or any other benefits granted to Aboriginal People.

It was the Mabo Court decision that changed all that. The Aboriginal Agencies saw this as a possible win for them if they welcomed the Torres Straight Islanders & other Islanders as part of the Aboriginal Family in Australia.

Suddenly the Torres Straight Islanders & Kannaka Decedents were welcomed into the Aboriginal Family. Strange that. Ay.

Aboriginal People have Equal Rights. They just have to act Equally responsibly.

I can just bet I get a blast for this. Ay.

Gee's Bernie, how bloody many imes does Whote Australia have to say it's bloody sorry for" The Sins of our Fathers?"

tut, tut, ttbn and legoland

Yee of little faith.

Paraphrasing Menzies if "I did but see her passing by” I’d say she is very good looking.

That said, to be a female writer and a minority, who will be judged by the mainly white-male-rightwing OLO commentariat, is pretty brave.

Aboriginals, who look like Aboriginals, have it very rough in some places, especially Queensland, from Brisbane to Cooktown and, of course, inland.

Some of my Maori friends have felt this discrimination. In NZ Maoris are considered normal people, but in Queensland they're considered "low class abos".

This morning I saw a photograph of a young woman of Aboriginal appearance wearing a Tshirt emblazoned with ‘Stop white supremacy’. I would like such people to explain just what form this white supremacy takes in Australia; how they suggest it be stopped, and what Australia would be like without it. How would she and her fellow agitators be better off.

I suspect that no such explanation would be forthcoming - that it is just another mindless, racist, anti-white slogan that is supposed to make white people feel guilty.

And no, Bernie Masters; I am not going to apologise for something someone I don’t know might or might not have done a couple of centuries ago or even later.

A small number of people who might or might not have claim to Aboriginal ancestors, plus the extreme Left are copying the tactics of US extremists. If they can’t pick the difference, most Australians can, so they are wasting their time and making themselves even more contemptible and disliked than they already are.