I suggest that to understand reconciliation we ask people like Ernie Dingo, Warren Mundine, Jacinta Price, Cathy Freeman, Yunupingu, Jessica Mauboy, Debora Mailman, and hundreds of others. Ask is their aboriginality a disadvantage.

It is only those that cannot accept their skin colour that are not reconciled to themselves. That is why they shout "white supremist". It is like a teenage girl who is never happy with her body. Not reconciled to whom they are.

Listen to the protests in Sydney and Melbourne about colour this coming weekend.

If you have read the Hammurabi code you would recognise 4,000 years ago the Mediterranean tribes chased the white skin people into the north. Wars over skin colour are mainly against white intellectuals.

Josephus,
As all of the people you mentioned have the appearance of mixed race, they should be the best to tell us the answer to that unanswered question of Reconciliation, they live with both sides of the fence, if anyone would know it's them !

Josephus,

"4,000 years ago the Mediterranean tribes chased the white skin people into the north."

And you know that, how ? As it happens, the people of Mesopotamia were probably mainly what we would call Kurds these days. And they're still there.

Then this elision:

"Wars over skin colour are mainly against white intellectuals."

Hmmm ....... that may need a bit of filling-out :)

Ratbags to the left of us, ratbags to the right of us ......

Joe

Josephus,

What are you using as your sources? Are they primary or secondary sources?

And please don't say something like "It's in the Bible somewhere. Find it yourself."

Josephus,

Thank You for your suggestion that we ask the people
you listed about Reconciliation, and whether their
Aboriginality was a disadvantage.

Lets start with - Ernie
Dingo - the TV personality. He's been a strong advocate
of Reconciliation speaking at the Nation Day of Action at
Belmore Park, Sydney a few years ago - on the forced closure of
Aboriginal communities. He's been very active to close
the gap in remote men's health by empowering them to
improve their physical, emotional, and social
well being. He's the chairman of Indigenous Media
organisation - Bush TV which runs programs called -
"Camping On Country."

He explains that - "We're going back on country with the
men to strengthen their mentality towards their culture,
their law, their language but more so - for medical
benefits." Ernie Dingo speaks about his own mental
problems - especially with depression.

Lets next go to - Yunupingu - the singer, musician, and
activist and very pro- Reconciliation of Yothu Yindi.
He was the first Aboriginal from Arnhem Land to get a
University degree - he was Australian of the Year in 1992.
He dedicated his life to his people - helping train and
educate Indigenous youth. The song "Treaty" became
known world-wide. He died at early age of chronic kidney
disease. Indigenous Australians are almost 4 times more
likely to die of chronis kidney disease than non Indigenous
Australians.

Next we can go to Jessica Mauboy - she has her own website
on which she promotes Aboriginal communities and
Reconciliation. She's extremely proud of her heritage
and has won many awards.

Deborah Mailman - decided to it was the right time to stand up
for her heritage - and undertook the role of Bonita Mabo
because as she explained - "There's a whole generation who
have no idea of what this meant to Australia as a nation".

She decided it was time to stand on her heritage.

Then there's Jacinta Price - who believes that we should
retain Australia Day on the date we have.
She goes on to explain:

cont'd ...

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Jacinta Price goes on to explain that:

"We don't know enough of our history, we don't know
enough about the atrocities that took place and this
date signifies to some that this was the beginning of
all that. So the atrocities didn't necessarily take place
on this particular day, but definitely followed afterwards".

Meaning we should debate the issues.