UnSubRocky wrote on Nov 4
th, 2021 at 9:35pm:
Gordon wrote on Nov 4
th, 2021 at 10:12am:
I had only briefly looked at this topic on Jesinta. What she does not seem to realise is that
indigenous people spend less time trying to inform the public that there is a missing relative. I did read a Facebook post about not wanting the name and image of the boy who was missing to be published on social media. They had some kind of sorry day, in case he had passed away. And there seems to be
a tendency to let indigenous matters take care of themselves. I do hope that I have misinterpreted what I thought I read. It is depressing that indigenous people seem to rely on superstition to solve their problems, or not even try to resolve a missing person case.
All true. It's sort of par for the course, and is one reason authorities don't pay as much attention to missing Indigenous kids as they do others. There is a resistance in the Indigenous community to anyone actually doing anything about it.
Not always true, but they can be very insular, and a missing daughter is most likely shacked up with some jerk, so they don't bother.
Sadly, this lead to a lack of a genuine official response to things like the death of an Aboriginal mother of seven up this way, on a beach following a night of wild sex with two blokes. She bled to death after extreme sexual behaviour, the two blokes tried to cover it up, and the police hardly even looked into it until pushed, even though the evidence was right there for any true investigator.
This is a two-way street - it's not all Whartey's fault, and it's not all Indigenous fault... the two really need to sit down at a round table and work these things out, make some hard and fast rules that guarantee that all are treated equally as OUR Law demands.