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Brian Ross wrote on Jul 16 th, 2018 at 5:29pm: Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jul 16 th, 2018 at 3:34pm: Aussie wrote on Jul 16 th, 2018 at 2:48pm: Quote:They were employed by whitemen until they "reliably" went on walkabout........"Instrumental" my arse.......they made a fvvken stick, that's all they did.....oh, and made some bloody dots and called it art...... 'Funny' watching these idiots trying to put schit on a people and culture which had survived for thousands of years before whitey farked it all for them. Yeah - apart from the roads, and health standards, and public order, and the wine - don't forget the wine - clean streets, mean streets, any streets at all, education, free money, reliable food source....what else - I ask you... WHAT ELSE HAS THE WHITE MAN DONE FOR US, EH?? http://gif-finder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Sylvester-Stallone-Facepalm.gif Of course, we can ignore the white land owners' habits of paying the Black fellas in some minor goods - some beef, some flour and some sugar. Nor should we ignore the substandard "housing" they provided for the Stockmen and their families - a few sheets of corrugated iron for a humpy. Oh, and then there was the non-existent health care they provided. Indeed, when the Army arrived in the Northern Territory durng WWII and employed Indigenous people at decent wages, with decent accommodation and and health care, the landowners protested, realising that the Indigenous people would get, "ideas". The Army personnel were shocked at the conditions they found, with good reason. Effectively the Indigenous people were treated like slaves. They worked, were paid a pittance and suffered as a consequence from white greed and greed was what drove it. As much as you attempt to make fun of concern about the working conditions of Indigenous workers in the 1930s-40s-50s-60s-70s they were abhominable. Historically, Brian - that happened with all kinds of people who lived on the 'boss' property and worked for the boss, and who received a few paltry goods and a place to live in exchange for their work and servitude. This was particularly prevalent in WA, that notorious non-convict colony which spawns paedos and serial killers and such with gay abandon - due to its rather haughty 'English' approach to the "master/servant relationship". It wasn't only the position of Black Fellahs... and while I sympathise with your stance, it does no good to live in the past, but it does do good to work for a better future for all. Let the dead bury the dead - my concern is the living..... surely you've heard that somewhere..... “It’s the southern way, Doctor.”
“The southern way?” she said.
“My mother’s immortal phrase. We laugh when the pain gets too much. We laugh when the pity of human life gets too . . . pitiful. We laugh when there’s nothing else to do.”
“When do you weep . . . according to the southern way?”
“After we laugh, Doctor. Always. Always after we laugh.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides RIP Pat Conroy.
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