Confronting our cruel past
In Australia, we have an upcoming referendum to change the constitution to give Indigenous First Nations people recognition in our constitution and to allow them a voice in the decisions that directly affect them
It is an incredibly simple proposition made artificially complex by the campaign for NO voice.
The hate and racism that this referendum has stirred is horrendous. It fills me with shame that my fellow country people can be so cruel.
No surprise, though, when we look around the world at the continued variations of ethnic cleansing. Albania, Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh, Serbia, Croatia, India and many of the African nations. The hatred towards Jews seems to be rising again if indeed it ever went away.
This truly ugly side of humanity breaks my heart.
On a positive note, this referendum has surfaced the atrocities of Australia’s colonial past. This article, by David Marr, a respected journalist who discovered that his heritage included members of the Native Police — state-sanctioned murders that enabled colonisers to claim their land by clearing out — murdering the Indigenous. An estimated 40,000 people murdered. The article is hard to read. It speaks to an attitude that is very much alive and breeding today.
Yet read it we must.
America’s wealth is off the back of an estimated 4 million murders of the indigenous peoples, and then cruel exploitation of slaves.
We must confront our cruel past if we want a world where this type of hate and fear is finally behind us.
Photo Taken October 1st 2023
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