Hi BP,

A very nice response to one of the Forums true haters! Nelson Mandela, what a remarkable human being, Mandela is up there with Gandhi and Dr Martin Luther King Jr, as the leaders of the peaceful struggle against hate and oppression in the world they were above all humble and understanding.

As Buddha said 2,500 years ago; "Hate is the hardest emotion to overcome."

Dear Pete,

Thank you for your kind words.

Humans are the most extraordinary creatures.
The spirit of the human being can fill me with
more joy than anything in the world. I've met some
amazing souls on my life's journey - and on this forum,
for which I am very grateful.

BP,

Thanks for reproducing two of my paragraphs:). I meant every word. I'm pretty sure that most people of Aboriginal descent - and there are very few genuine ones - are content to lead their lives without 'help' from Communistic rabble rousers who really don't care about them anymore than the BLM crowd cares about black people and their lives.

I think that you are doing Nelson Mandela a great disservice by trying to link him with Australian Aboriginal malcontents and riff raff. Mandela was a man to be admired. There has never been anyone like him in Australia, nor has anyone ever been treated the way he was. Attempts to link the Australian Aboriginal experience with overseas activists and causes is absolute nonsense.

The conscience of Australians has been awakened to the
fact that Aborigines want to and will make decisions for
themselves. Schemes that were run until relatively
recently by "whites" who adopted a paternal attitude to
Aborigines, treating them like children and considering
that only they knew what was best for Aborigines did not
get good results. In frustration, many Aborigines took
to drastic action.

The same happened in the US - where black people took to
action to try to get their people a "fair go".

That is nothing new. And things are achieved. Things like
legal and land rights, education, and health care.

Progress is being made in the Aborigines fight for the chance
to survive in today's Australia and although much more needs
to be done, perhaps the outlook is more hopeful now than it
has been in the past in the times of Senator Bonner.

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Thanks for those video songs Canem Malum. I enjoyed them.

I must say that if ever I had to face an enemy firing squad, I can’t imagine myself singing "Advance Australia Fair" in defiance. I’m pretty sure “Waltzing Matilda” would surge up from my bowels instinctively.

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Dear ttbn,

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You wrote :

« I think that you are doing Nelson Mandela a great disservice by trying to link him with Australian Aboriginal malcontents and riff raff. Mandela was a man to be admired. There has never been anyone like him in Australia, nor has anyone ever been treated the way he was. Attempts to link the Australian Aboriginal experience with overseas activists and causes is absolute nonsense. »
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Don’t look now, ttbn, but I think you’ll find that, if anything, there are at least as many – if not more – “riff-raff” among Aussies of Caucasian origin as there are among those who identify today as “Aboriginal”.

But please don't hesitate to correct me if I’m wrong.

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