#indigenous peoples
Australia’s history of racism towards Aboriginals is absolutely disgusting.
Until the mid-60s, indigenous Australians came under the Flora And Fauna Act, which classified them as animals, not human beings. This also meant that killing an indigenous Australian meant you weren’t killing a human being, but an animal.
To this day, Australia breaks every code of the Geneva Convention when it comes to indigenous Australians and their human rights. The “public housing” that the government has given them are one-bedroom shacks with no running water, no electricity and no gas, that entire families are forced to live in. These shacks are in communities in the outback, as far away from “civilised” society as possible. Out of sight, out of mind.
Indigenous Australians that live in the city are commonly forced to live in very dangerous and derelict areas that the government gives very little funding towards. Redfern in Sydney is a highly indigenous Australian populated suburb that is rife with crime, unemployment and horrendous living conditions. The government does next to nothing to help these people, either.
Whenever riots have broken out as a result of incredibly low morale, the police and the government are very quick to point all the blame at the indigenous Australians and say that they are the cause of their own problems, rather than looking at what the actual cause is.
Unemployment rates amongst indigenous Australians is astronomical. Crime rates are astronomical. Suicide rates are extremely high within the indigenous Australian community. Death from inadequate living conditions and inadequate health care is common. Brutality towards indigenous Australians is common.
The way many indigenous Australians are forced to live is equivalent to that of what one would expect from a third-world country. Indigenous Australians are considered by the UN to be one of the most horrendously marginalised groups in the world.
And how does the government amend all of this? With a national “Sorry Day”, where white people plant a hand in some designated area of soil as a token of their white guilt, and then continue going about their white privileged day.
On top of that, white people here commonly bitch and complain about how “good” indigenous Australians have it and how “thankful” they ought to be to the white man for improving their quality of life. Meanwhile, indigenous Australians have lost almost all sense of identity and culture because of white colonisation.
What is left of Aboriginal identity and culture has been nearly completely destroyed. And most people in this disgustingly privileged country do not give a single damn.
Australia is a disgusting country when it comes to racism. I am disgusted by my own country.
White people being racially questionable? Huge surprise there.
- The Creole Drunk
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Maori woman carrying an infant on her back, 1892 -
(photo from natlib.govt.nz)
The New Zealand Holocaust
‘Many descendants of British colonist’s are under some impression that settlement was a lovely peaceful event where British colonist never attempted to exterminate Maori,Confiscate 99% of their land and assimilate them.
A holocaust is defined as “Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale” it is not isolated to any single event. The Maori was in terminal decline only 50 years after signing the Treaty of Waitangi -75% of the Maori were deceased (Mason Durie, Ngā Tai Matatū, pp 29-31).
The British Army had Machine guns that could mow down an entire Battalion and the latest Armstrong Artillery. Maori fighting back with muskets could not prevent slaughter of men woman and children against a professional army.
Maori were punished severely for attempting to protect their ancestral lands against the wishes of the British government their land was to be repatriated.
Without land and the native courts designed to strip more land from Iwi the Maori soon fell into poverty and despair attempting to assimilate into British society. The government refused to offer Iwi medical care to prevent Small pox,influenza many diseases that Maori had not been exposed to.
By 1890 the Maori was on the verge of being exterminated.
Many British colonists liked to gloat about the demise of the Maori people by saying “They have been replaced by a superior race”.’
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(to read more>http://aotearoagovt.com/?p=1513)
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App State archaeological research in Linville Gorge Wilderness area
“Gokee said the project is an “incredible opportunity for our students to cultivate key practical skills for archaeology,” citing field methods for discovering and documenting sites, methods for identifying and studying artifacts, and practical experience in working with partners in the U.S. Forest Service and in writing technical reports and grant proposals.”
