Josephus,

All rivers flow into the same sea.

From a friend this morning.

What would you do?
Kicked out of the university lecture
Subject: Legal studies.
First lecture.
The professor enters the lecture hall.He looks around.
"You there in the 8th row. Can you tell me your name?" he asks a student.
"My name is Sandra" says a voice.
The professor asks her, "Please leave my lecture hall. I don't want to see you in my lecture."
Everyone is quiet. The student is irritated, slowly packs her things and stands up.
"Faster please" she is asked.
She doesn't dare to say anything and leaves the lecture hall.
The professor keeps looking around.
The participants are scared.
"Why are there laws?" he asks the group.
All quiet. Everyone looks at the others.
"What are laws for?" he asks again.
"Social order" is heard from a row
A student says "To protect a person's personal rights."
Another says "So that you can rely on the state."
The professor is not satisfied.
"Justice" calls out a student.
The professor smiling. She has his attention.
"Thank you very much. Did I behave unfairly towards your classmate earlier?"
Everyone nods.
"Indeed I did. Why didn't anyone protest?
Why didn't any of you try to stop me?
Why didn't you want to prevent this injustice?" he asks.
Nobody answers.

"What you just learned you wouldn't have understood in 1,000 hours of lectures if you hadn't lived it. You didn't say anything just because you weren't affected yourself. This attitude speaks against you and against life. You think as long as it doesn't concern you, it's none of your business. I'm telling you, if you don't say anything today and don't bring about justice, then one day you too will experience injustice and no one will stand before you. Justice lives through us all. We have to fight for it."

BTW, the student then returned, as the professor and set it up to teach a lesson.

Dear Paul,

Absolutely brilliant.

Thanks for that story. It reminds me of one of my
Psychology classes which was also a set-up by our
teacher - teaching us witness reliability.

Your teacher set-up is so relevant today.

Here is a link about the attacks on Prof. Marcia
Langton:

http://womensagenda.com.au/latest/faux-outrage-at-marcia-langton-really-all-the-times-the-no-campaign-has-deliberately-employed-racism/

You might also be interested in a recently released DVD.
A film entitled - "The New Boy." It's available from
JB Hi Fi stores. A film that deals with Indigenous issues.
It features Cate Blanchett as a nun operating an outback
orphanage. The new boy is played by Aswan Reid - a nine
year old boy who is brilliant. We witness a clash of cultures.

Well worth a watch - especially at this time. A beautiful film.

Banjo gives us an a-historic litany of supposed outrages the so-called First People (why is it always capitalised??) supposedly suffered 150 years ago. I don't propose to fisk his silly list but suffice it to say what isn't rubbish is easily contestable.

Somehow he thinks this justifies giving them an outsized say in the present world because, he thinks, we (although clearly he absents himself from the 'we') aren't laying awake at night fretting over what happened 150 years ago.

When all you've got is supposed historic injustice to support a claim for present-day injustice, you've really got zip.

"Indigenous voice to parliament no campaign leading in every state, poll analysis shows Support for voice has dropped by 21 percentage points nationally in the past year, according to Guardian Australia’s poll tracker."

Will Albozo do the honourable thing and resign when his $ 350,000,000 boondoggle fails?

There are many Indigenous Australians living today
who:

Are members of the Stolen Generation.
Had children stolen from them.
Were denied an education.
Had their wages stolen.
Were not permitted in public places.
Could not receive healthcare.
Did not have the right to vote.
And the list goes on.

These impacts play out today in areas such as mental
health, high rates of alcohol and drug use, family
violence, and Indigenous incarceration rates.

Understanding Indigenous disadvantage is important.
As is connecting the dots between government
intervention since colonisation and how that has
created trauma and disadvantage.

Many reports have been written on these issues and
recommendations made. Very few recommendations have
been implemented and so the problems continue with
rising statistics.

The answers are there if we listened to First Nations
communities and Voices. It is time for truth telling and
a deeper understanding of our past and the connection that
it has to the present in the way we treated and still
continue to treat our First Nations people.

They are asking for self-determination. It's not a big ask.
And it is sad that many are thinking in terms of - what's
in it for them - rather than trying to correct things
that should have been done decades ago.

History is calling. It's our choice whether we answer the
call or not. Our record is not good. But we can hope that
with newcomers and a more culturally diverse population
that times just may change. We can only hope.
But the time has come. The choice is ours to make.
Will it be all about - "ME" or will it be about all
of - "ÜS.