Part Two

Nevertheless, it has been proven in our district that our coloureds can have beautiful minds. It can be so interesting to take time watching them draw figures and diagrams in the sand chattering away, laughing all the time, better than us whites. Furthermore, many of them have a natural artistic sense better than whites schooled in universities.

There was a very enlightening feature in our newspaper The West Australian in the WeekEnd Extra on this February 26th, of which all of our opinion group ahould get a copy of, as well as Dr Morton.

We can here begin talking about the Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth in the 1930s, in which Dr Stanton, head of the Berndt Museum in WA, discovered how a British philanthropist, Florence Rutter had found in her travels some absolutlely astounding Aboriginal art stowed away at the wheatbelt town of Katanning.

Indeed, it is so astounding that the art was produced not by one young aboriginal but by a number, the whole lot virtually just disposed of when the Moore River Settlement closed down.

Too much I and my wife have heard the term, oh don’t worry about our blacks they are no bloody good, the quicker they die out the better. Very sadly, it seems Dr Morton believes the same - the very same these days said about Muslims by Americans and Australians in high places. Shouldn’t us whites know better after thousands of years of reasoning, or have we just got worse?

PS. Copies of the above Aboriginal art are available from The West Australian newspaper, Perth - WA

We have removed the survival component from a culture that once thrived on the challenge that most of us could never endure.

To remove the reason for one's existence is the cruelest cut.Just to be paid for existing,is like being in gaol,there is no reason to learn or evolve.

Yeah, and here's another cruel cut...taking away vital services like public health so that those who can't afford it, die. Just the way you cruel people of The Right would so love to see it.

Not really related to the topic I know. But I couldn't resist with Arjay's one-sided comment. Especially after Bushbred, once again, made a comment that couldn't be argued by the selfish, it-doesn't-affect-me members of the Far-Right.

Jinx ,you missed the point entirely,I'm not espousing the removal of social security,but rather paying Aborigines money only if they take responsibility for their own survival,yes ,with strings attached.Just as it should be with the rest of our social security recipients who mostly take the money with no intention of giving back to society from which they have taken.

You,like most assume that Social Security is an inherant right,rather than wanting to give back to the the hard workers who keep you in this present state if hypocritical indignation.

With so many experts in Aboriginal affairs one would expect our problems to be non-existent. Go figure?

Here’s an interesting paradox:
When a group are disadvantaged by a system they tend to hide or renounce their identity.(Thus Jews in many parts of the world, at different times, have had to hide their identity or convert).

And we are told that the plight of Aborigines is substandard to atrocious -the system is stacked against them –they are discriminated against in all facets of life - etc.

Yet in present day Australia we have had people who are full blooded SriLankans & Indians etc, trying to pass themselves off as Aborigines.-
We have people with only a small percentage of Aboriginal blood identifying themselves as Aborigines.
(For example someone who is ¾ Non-Aboriginal & ¼ Aboriginal –OR MUCH LESS - will register as Aboriginal)

Are they masochistic ?
Or is there some method to this “madness” ?