Lexi,
I hope all's well.
I think I need some tome out too.
Best regards.

Squeers,

"Why is our way of life the default moral position, which need never test its legitimacy?"

Don't get too far up yourself, Squeers. Modernity is not the monopoly of whites. Tertiary education, air-conditioning, comfort, job security, good health, happy childhoods and so on are not your preserve alone. If other people want those things, as much as you do, then that's their prerogative. It is not yours to denigrate those choices.

Joe Lane

Tertiary education, air-conditioning, comfort, job security, good health, happy childhoods and so on are not your preserve alone.
Loudmouth,
Quite so but the working class whitie has to pay for these things with money, sacrificing time for work, paying for medication & child care. That is my only gripes with equality.

Were I given these things I would gladly accept them too. I think the trick is not to give hand-outs. Only reward.

Spot-on, Individual, I fully agree. People, Black and White, earn their tertiary education however, certainly down here in the cities: they put the years of study in like anybody else, but with less certainty that it will pay off.

Aboriginal people down this way don't get any royalties since they rarely have access to their ancestors' lands, but up in the north, so it seems, to him that hath shall it be given: if you have land, you can pimp it and get royalties. No, I also agree with you, that's not equality. In the south, an Aboriginal person on his or her onw land can't just demand that the government to build him/her a house on it. That's not equality either.

Frankly, I'm not all that interested in the remote communities: they have got themselves, in collusion with organisations and bureaucracies, into their mess, they can get themselves out of it. In the south in the cities, people have had to battle, to get into the cities in the first place, then to get jobs, then to get their kids a decent education, and to find some level of security by struggling to buy their own homes.

Like white people, you may say, yes, but with the added burden of a racist history on their shoulders.

And with more than twenty six thousand university graduates, and an unknown number of trades graduates, they are doing it, more or less on their own, against the determined opposition these days particularly of the left, of which I still count myself one, as I always will. It's a complicated world, Individual :)

Cheers,

Joe

Lexi hope you are ok mate all the very best.
I am with loudmouth here very much so.
Can any one think leaving things as they are is an answer.
And MATE! Individual! gee are you now saying if we NO! sorry just can not go there,this country has had service men in two world wars and every other minor one.
They did not come back as terrorist, gee offensive stuff.
I could be Aboriginal, yes the act says if I am excepted into the community I am one, I know whites who took that offer.
I will never support the idea we should leave them to live half our life time in the bush.
I will never except the idea that they understand without education and such just how they can live better lives
Yes I know, I understand, my thoughts are not shared, understand some see me as racist.
But it takes much more than love , blindness , care, it takes more than concern it takes action.
We highlight in every thread our distrust in public servants,yet we ignore it is them we put in charge of keeping the status quo not fixing Aboriginal problems.
If we give a thought, look past the bad things,understand they are a product of BOTH SIDES FAILURES, we can fix this two generations and we have educated leaders children family's.
We can do it if we lock the PC out of this dreadful state of affairs.