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Australian Race Problems - Redfern Sydney
(Originally published in the comments section of a newspaper in relation to an article entitled: Race riot stuns nation: February 2004)
Despite the age of this article, the comments remain current in 2009
As I read this story, I could not help but feel that I was reading an account of events taking place in the Middle East.
I would love to phone my nieces and nephews to ask for their comments, but doubt that their responses would be printable. Were they in fact to be printed, they would merit great accusations of 'racism' - except that my nieces and nephews are Aboriginal too.
The white community needs to understand that the Black community as a whole is neither 'pro-black and anti-white' nor 'anti-police', and the black community as a whole, needs to realise that while 'racial' issues are politicized, there can never be 'one people in one Australia'.
And if a 'one Australia' is not possible, we need to consider which of us is moving where. Should the country have its own 'west bank or Berlin wall?' ; Should the UN be called in as Peace Keepers?
I think that it is also time for the Aboriginal community to have its own court system to deal with Aboriginal offenders, with sentencing to be carried out using 'traditional Aboriginal methods'.
Aboriginal suspects could be arrested by 'white police' and taken immediately to a special 'Aboriginal police station' where the investigation, interview and charging could be carried out without any justification for accusations of 'racism' or 'heavy handedness'.
I doubt that many of the anti-social people who 'claim' to be Aboriginals would still make that claim, if dealt justice the aboriginal way.
At the end of the day though, Australians need to get their act together. If they don't, it won't be too long before 'OUR' country will be ruled by some foreign power, (and there are several who would love the chance), and such freedoms and liberty that we do enjoy but don't appreciate, and which we do abuse, will be lost to us forever.
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R.P.BenDedek is from Brisbane Australia and is the author of 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' at http://www.kingscalendar.com His academic articles set forth Apologetics for and results of his discovery of an "artificial chronological scheme" running through the Bible, Josephus, the Damascus Documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Seder Olam Rabbah.
He writes photographic 'Stories from China' and social editorial commentaries, both at KingsCalendar, and as a contributing newspaper columnist. He currently teaches Conversational English in China and in addition to his English Lessons at KingsCalendar, he has created specific sites for Students of English.
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Written on 02/25/04 at 17:57:46 AEST by Anonymous
As a white Australian I also believe that Aboriginals should have black judges and tribal elders mete out the punishment that the offence warrants, but 'How to make the politicans agree to this when ATSIC itself is corrupt?', is another issue altogether.
We are all human and as such will continue down the road to our own distruction as per usual.
The Real problem as I see it is the 'politicization' of 'aboriginal' issues.
You only have to look around the world today to hear the mighty roar about justice, while plundering their own peoples and making them virtual slaves. When 'leaders' have a political agenda, the needs of the people they represent are lost. It becomes an issue of power, not of people.
The Palestinians are suffering in much the same way as the Australian Aboriginals. Not because they are hated (by their opposite number), but because they are not truly loved by their own leaders.
We can see around the world that 'oppressed' people are being represented by leaders whose first and foremost priority is their own power. Arafat for instance would cease to be ANYBODY if the people finally found peace, and I think the so called 'reconcilliation' process in Australia is ultimately about 'politically vested' interests from within the black community, that have no true concern for their own people.
