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Should We Change The Date of Australia Day?
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So let's try to answer it for you by using you as an example...
Would you be better off if we came and took your home, your family, your culture and destroyed it?
Would you be better off if we forced a false religion down your throat and treated you like a third class citizen?
Would you be better off having know nothings like you asking such silly questions?
How would you cope if your numbers of your ethnicity dropped from he from 1,250,000 in 1788 to 50,000 in 1930 due mostly to small pox and other diseases introduced in the invasion? Would it affect your society much?
How would you feel about your fellow countrymen ignoring the massacres that your people suffered? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_of_Indigenous_Australians
How would you cope with your children being stolen from you and put into institutions where they were abused physically, emotionally and sexually?
How would you have coped as a child being torn away from your parents?
How would you have dealt with knowing that the whites deliberately tried to breed the black out of you? http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/caught-up-in-a-scientific-racism-designed-to-breed-out-the-black/2008/02/13/1202760399034.html
How would you have coped having alcohol introduced into you lives that ruined them? http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/health/aboriginal-alcohol-consumption
How would you have coped with the heads of your relatives being stolen? http://theconversation.com/museums-are-returning-indigenous-human-remains-but-progress-on-repatriating-objects-is-slow-67378
I could go on but I think you get my drift.
Of course some aborigines have transitioned fairly well into modern society.
We have had thousands of years of change into what we are now but hey we expect them to change from day one and till now 230 years later starting totally from nothing!
The aborigine lived at one with the land, with no need for structures and minimal impact on the environment for over 50,000years. We have plundered and nearly destroyed this place in 230 years.
How dare we ignore these facts and pretend we are better!
Wake UP!