Forwarded with permission:
Tony Mockeridge wrote:
hi boxers
well he's really hit the all time low this time. howard's rejection of
reconciliation ensures we continue to live in a divided society .the
abhorrent practises of apartheid are alive and well in howard country.
howard's assertion that he cannot make one generation apologise for
another's transgressions is just a sick pathetic excuse from a very sad
and
sorry caricature of a leader.
i seem to remember the vast majority of white australians i grew up
with in the sixties and seventies as savagely racist. a significant
number of these
were involved in acts of physical harrassment and outright violence
against first australians and i certainly remember the queensland police
being extremely bigoted and violent in their treatment of any koori
unfortunate enough to come into their view on their nightly and daily
patrols of musgrave park and other stolen koori lands.
no doubt a few of these upright citizens also found their way into the
public service and from there organised the removal of children from
their
families and uprooting of people from traditional lands to make way
for
"development" and "progress."
no mr howard, you are quite wrong it is this generation which has much
to be sorry for and it is people like you with your bigoted, arrogant
and
narcissistic view of the world that allow australia's version of
apartheid
to continue.
you are however, right in one thing mr howard, you should not
apologise,no, you should prostrate yourself before the thousands of
first
australians who continue to suffer under your disgraceful regime and
beg
forgiveness.
in unity
tony
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