UN Calls Aussie Aboriginal Policies Racist

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Like any indigenous society...Europeans come in and treat them as subservient...The Male Pioneers use the indigenous women for sex and abandon offspring ..offer the men trinkets to abandon their families or take them by force and make them work for near nothing. Generations go by and the way of life of the Indigenous people is all but lost...and then...and only then...we look at them and say. "Isn't it a shame how they've got problems?"

The answer is, Every society has it's alcoholics...it's bad parents, and it's people who do not do a good job of living a productive life. We look at these smaller microcosims who are easily identified by their color or economic circumstances, and we say...this or that society has these problems. It's not as simple as that!

There are as many indigenous Austrailians who have strong family values and do a great job of living life by the standards of their own traditions. The ones that have problems are usually the ones who have had the most intervention into their lives by outsiders.

I say..leave them alone, but offer a helping hand when it's asked for. White Australia, and England caused this problem, and now you want to trust them to "fix" it? Their interventions have already done enough harm. Do most of you Americans know, that Austrailian Children who were the product of mixed blood were taken from their families and put into institutions and taught to be house servants...as recently as 1974? It was called Assimilation...a polite name for Child Slavery!

White Europeans told themselves that this was for the children's own good, becuase Aboriginal Mothers would abandon them anyway. This was as untrue in 1874 as it was in 1974...but it was done for over 100 years.

The same atrocities have happened in America with the Native people. Canada as well. Anywhere where European pioneers , and self-reitious "Missionaries" have come in and taken over a way of life, and forced it's indigenous people into servatude, or their belief system, this problem exists...but guess what? It exists everywhere else as well. Just take a look at prisons and welfare lines. They are full of people who have problems with Drugs, Alcohol and other vices. And before any of you racists on here say...and they're all black...check your figures...Child Abusers, Alcoholics and Serial Killers are most often White, educated, middle class and consider themselves "Conservative". And any poor society will have people on Welfare, it's not a color issue, it's a circumstance issue.

Ugly is not in color, or on a face...it's in the heart!

We had a very serious race problem in Australia, which was basically taken care of by wiping out the bulk of the indigenous population. Aborigines were treated as animals, hunted for sport, massacred for a laugh...and those who remain have been pushed, in some cases literally, to the very fringes of society. As with most stories, there is a deeper understanding to be had around the causes that led to the 'intervention', but the root cause is basically one of demonisation.

Lets flip that around.....How would you like President Obama telling you that you we're not allowed to drink ourself to death or watch as much porn as we damn well please? I am sure if Presidenbt Obama tried something like that you'd be yelling "government control, socialism"..yada yada yada....This is about self determination and not about porn and alcohol. It needs to be a local matter handled by the local inhabitants. I would point out the absurdity of a government that has already run rough shod over it's indigenous people once again deciding what it in their "best interest". Do you not see the irony here?