Thanks to Perry Bulwer for directing my attention to this series of articles, and although reading through them made me vomit (quite literally), the messages within them aren’t just ‘tall tales’ of the crimes of christendom and governments against Aboriginal peoples in Canada; they’re the harsh, very raw, simple facts.
Australia holds it’s own shame, that of The Stolen Generations (click the link to read the full fact sheet).
Image thanks to electricnerve
The traditional Aboriginal peoples of Australia and Torres Straight Island have fared no better than those of other continents; it’s just that their stories, to date, have rarely been told and when they have, it’s generally been to minimal audiences soon drowned out by a media that couldn’t care less, generally focused on half-truths and commercialism.
Although the ‘real’ Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd (because I refuse to acknowledge the cowardly traitor who stabbed him in the back and stole his job), did at least attempt some form of reconciliation, a simple ‘Sorry Day’ really fixes nothing.
I’ve never doubted that Kevin Rudd’s heart and intentions were in the right place; the methodology was just incomplete and lacking real, effectual, substance. Still, I applaud him for publicly acknowledging what no other gutless political wonder ever dared publicly acknowledge before; the stolen generations and the continued plight of Australian and Torres Straight Islander Aboriginal people.
It’s heartening to see that Idle No More has now hit Australia. May it be as powerful as an earthquake, as unstoppable as a tsunami, and as implacable in restoring balance as their tormentors were in destroying it.
Let’s see how long it takes for the Hallelujah Brigades and their ‘lovers’ – politicians and their untrustworthy parties – to ‘be seen to be on the right side of the fence’, mouthing typically artificial platitudes, empty promises and attempts at ‘doing deals’ to protect their vested interests.
MyHeathenHeart
Reblogged this on Serendipity and commented:
The Hall of Shame is huge. No nation is exempt. Let’s work towards a less ugly future.
Thank you very much! No, no nation is exempt where white supremacy has behaved so barbarically, I agree.
Yes, we still have our own Hall of Shame here in the Land of the Free.
This, too, shall pass. The winds of change are blowing
The hall of shame contains pretty much every nation on earth. The past was horrible; maybe we can make the future better.
I do hope so. This Aquarian Age of ours is supposed to be about truths revealed, shedding light on hidden, cruel and barbaric injustices, to help us build a better world for all; it’s time it lived up to itself.
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Thank you, bearspawprint
I had the (dis)pleasure of knowing Sir Willian Gunn. He was a very old man when we first met, well into his 90’s, incoherent for the most part, drank tall classes of straight rum like it was water. In the 50’s, on one of his properties, he and his hands drove the tribe there down to the creek and killed them all. Shameful, sickening part of our history… and this man was later Knighted for his Services to the Wool Industry. It’s beyond words.
*William
Incomprehensible, and yet sadly so typical…