05-04-2008, 02:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Foolosophy
BUT when it comes to paying compensation to the indigineous people for taking their land, their lives, and destroying many of their families by stealing their children, the FINANCIAL costs are put up as some sort of massive barrier. And of course we all know why they do that - they actually believe that the governments of the time did nothing wrong and were actually helping the childrn with their arrogant, racist and cruel policies
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I wasn't aware you were Australian. Forgive me, I have assumed you were from the US. (I'll give you better rep next time, lol)
Not all children were removed for racial reasons - many were removed to give them a better life, and some of those people are alive today, and are even grateful to the Government for removing them.
Childrens Services take children away all the time, and I imagine some of those children suffer emotionally - should they be compensated?
What about those English boys sent to Australia all those years ago? They were stolen from their parents, and many never saw their families again. They were stolen, too, and brought over here where many were abused. Should we compensate them?
Okay, so both examples are not ones of race, but the example above I think holds some weight, surely. I read quite a lot about this in the papers. Their plight is the same as the Aboriginals, being that they were stolen - literally - from their parents, yet where is their compensation? |