Hi Laurie, I was wondering what you thought of the Pearson speech in full - if you've had a chance to read it? Did it cause you to change your mind? Sandy was right in saying that the reports of it would probably do it no justice - they didn't. I don't think one press piece I saw mentioned class, yet class was at the heart of everything he said! Certainly, to me, it made more sense reading the whole. I wonder what was others thought? Tim Laurie wrote: >This is not a new 'black" voice . > >This is the timeless cry of the oppressors and their apologists ---" It's >their own fault". >A variation of the Greedy Christian spiel ''God helps those who helps >themselves''. > > To infer that Aborigines are suffering Third World conditions because they >have received too many welfare handouts denies the reality that Aborigines >have been deliberately consigned to these conditions by non-indigenous >Australian people and their governments----not their own inactivity due to >welfare. > >This is a disgraceful argument used time and again by the opponents of >justice for Aborigines, and Pearson is in bad company when he uses it. > >The real problem is that the welfare and assistance received by Aborigines >has been a pittance compared to what is needed to overcome the disadvantages >imposed on them, and put them on anything like equal footing with the rest >of Australian society. > >Laurie > ------------------------------------------------------ RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/
