Invasion day protest on Saturday

[sherrife]

[Alec. J. Hidell]

Sounds like a fun day, I might wander along

[Dave The Man]

No I won't go, The Aboriginals take that thing a Bit Far for me

[Piethagoras' Theorem]

Good luck with the protest. I admire your enthusiasm and willingness to actually do something for what you believe in. I wish I had that drive.

And try steering clear of those pesky little cops with their pepper sprays ay

[David]

There always has to be a bad guy... 'discrimination', and 'oppression'.

I don't think 'discrimination' and 'oppression' are the problem. 'Discrimination' and 'oppression' aren't the reason why a larger proportion of Aborigines than whites have criminal records (as another link on that page states).

I'm not pushing a party line here, or trotting out redneck soundbites. I read this sort of story and get genuinely worried, because I see symptoms of a larger problem... an 'us against them' mentality, and a desire to blame others for problems which have more complex roots. Those are barriers to integration, and this kind of march seems to be encouraging them.

Just my two cents.

[Dale61]

No mention of The People's Front of Judea either!

[thesleepysupporter]

Invasion day....whilst the motivation seems to be good (preventing deaths in custody) how about whilst doing so don't slander the nation we all live in.

I reckon the kangaroo's and wombats should hold a protest for when the bloody aboriginals invaded their country!!!

[EBB]

How do we prevent deaths in custody?

[member34258]

[stui magpie]

I wonder if the Native Americans protest on Thanksgiving?

Fair enough to keep Aboriginal issues front of mind, but is anyone naive enough to believe that if the English hadn't colonised this country, someone else wouldn't have?

Without external intervention, Aboriginal society would have stayed the same as it was. It hadn't changed for thousands of years, they weren't suddenly going to discover agriculture or develop past a hunter/gatherer lifestyle.

Intervention was inevitable.

Yes, there's still bridges to mend and governments can't seem to get the right mix between paternalisim; integration and self government but face facts, no one's going to just hand the country over to 1% of the population to run so how bout we all start moving forward.

[EBB]

TESS!!!! What does this mean "we are one, But we are many"?

[HAL]

What you said was either too complex or too simple for me.

[sherrife]

You are all right when you say that we need to act as one, but I don't think this protest is against that. Hence the fact it is not an Indigenous-only event!

A day like tomorrow is not about giving back Indigenous people 100% of the land in our country, it is not about reverse-racism, it is just about making people aware of the injustices that affect Indigenous Australians to this day, and the fact that our unquestioned history of "discovery" wasn't actually a 'discovery' at all, but a genuine invasion.

[stui magpie]

Invasion Omar?

20/20 hindsight is a beautiful thing, looking at history through modern eyes would make a lot of things "wrong", but at the time; in the society as they were; they were considered right.

Lots of societies over the world have been "colonised" or "invaded". Most of Europe would be a hotch potch of differing influences depending on which cultre was dominant for longest.

We need to get WAAAAAYYYY beyond "this was our land and you took it" to dealing with the current issues.

This kind of demonstration to me is a double edged sword. It raises Aboriginal issues which is a good thing, but it (can) promote divisiveness which is a bad thing IMO.

[EBB]