MOVING FORWARD…OUR WAY

Aboriginal people have known how racist this country has been since 1788 where Australia truly has sat in denial since. Nothing illustrates this more than the events of the last couple of days, the blame, the name calling, the racist attacks on my friends catching trains and being spat on in the streets. You just think you are so superior but your weakness is your hypocrisy. Blaming us for looking back, saying we non-Aboriginal people today are not responsible for 200 years ago but if you wanted to stop what happened 200 years ago, wanted to reverse our pain, we ask one simple thing, to respect us and sign a Treaty. A contract between 2 people moving forward together. A respect paid to Aboriginal people that you are not fauna and flora which was the case in the Constitution, reversing the origins of this country 200 years ago, reversing the hate and disrespect by moving forward as 2 peoples coming together as one. But I can also hear your hypocrisy and greed as well swelling up. NO!! That would mean compensation, that would mean special treatment for Aboriginal people, that would mean…and it goes on and on. If any land owner for 40,000 or 60,000 years maintained the land so well, so natural, so beautiful, that Europeans and the rest of the world sailed here in their thousands to live here but he was not paid a cent in 230 years for the land, surely he is due. Surely the rules of occupation mean we are deserved a Treaty to start fresh, reverse the past and begin a new era with respect for each other with a firm economic base that was taken from us in the first place. While that respect is not paid, the pain will continue long past this generation.