Hi Tim,
Yes, I have just had a read through it.
Thanks for forwarding it.
It certainly bears little resemblance to the various media reports on the
speech---as suspected.
Personally, I believe that the "greed system" and the use of racism as a
weapon of the greedy is the cause of the position Aborigines and other
exploited people are in.
That is why welfare is needed----a proper share of the wealth would be
better ,but that seems unlikely while the means of communication are owned
by those who have most to gain by having a dispossessed and divided
underclass at their disposal.
Call the problem the 'class system" if you like, but the old idea of class
allows people like Murdoch and Packer for example to parade themselves as
men of the people or anti-elites or anti-intellectuals or whatever, when in
reality, they are the powerbrokers and among the main benficiaries of the
degredation of Aboriginal people and other unemployed and dispossessed.
I still think this is not the time to be making statements that are too
easily used by the exploiters to support the case of those who demand "
mutual responsibility" from the exploited on such an uneven playing
field----reponsibility for what----their own degredation---I don't think so.
Laurie
Laurie and Desley Forde
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Without a treaty, which spells out the obligations and rights of both
parties, there can be no Reconciliation in Australia----Geoff Clark.
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Subject: Re: [recoznet2] Re: SMH - Editorial: The new black voice
> 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
> >
>
>
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