Karnal wrote on Aug 15
th, 2021 at 3:48pm:
Gordon wrote on Aug 15
th, 2021 at 2:55pm:
Maybe the parents should be copunished for the crimes of unsupervised kids.
I wonder where the parents are?
I blame the parents.
Exactly.
Ms Fanning and her quartet of experts droned on about why Aboriginal kids are getting into trouble with the law without once considering the role of ‘parents’ in child rearing. Not one of them asked why kids who are wandering the streets at night are not being supervised by their parents. It is a question so obvious that the only reason that it wasn’t asked, is because all five of those informed ‘experts’ knew the answer.
In a survey of Aboriginal women in Fitzroy Valley in the Kimberley region, 50 per cent reported drinking while pregnant and 1 in 8 Indigenous kids born in that region were diagnosed as suffering from foetal alcohol syndrome (‘The Liliwan Project’). This is one of the highest incidences of FASD in the world and goes a long way to explain the incidence of Indigenous incarceration in that region.
The recent tragic incident in Adelaide in which an Indigenous 13-year-old boy was crushed to death in a garbage compactor in which he and two friends were sleeping is another example of parental failure. Had the poor boy been white, the media would have been onto the family immediately and asked, not unreasonably, why they didn’t know where their child was spending the night. Because he was Indigenous, the media tiptoed around the issue of possible parental neglect. It is a pattern we see repeatedly in the media’s discussion of dysfunctional families in Aboriginal communities. The Fanning world view believes the reason why kids are locked up is not because there is no parental control, not because they keep stealing cars, not because of substance abuse. It is because they are victimised by the police.
There are many reasons why Indigenous kids become enmeshed in the youth criminal justice system and it is time that journalists started doing their job of investigating those reasons instead of presenting an ideologically driven account of white supremacists masquerading as police.
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These parents are not called out because they are Aborigines (or Africans, Islanders or otherwise vibrant).
Vibrants behaving badly? White racist make them do it. Their own have nuffin' to do wiv nuffin'.