You know, I’m not even mad about this:
A protest for Indigenous people will be held on the National Day of Mourning for Queen Elizabeth II.
Sure, some people will be outraged, but my only response is:
Please, please, PLEASE… do it!
Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, which has more than 60,000 Facebook followers, will take to Brisbane streets on September 22 to decry past atrocities and the impact of British colonisation in Australia.
“This is a stance against the continued crimes committed against marginalised First Nations, black, brown and Asian communities. We do not support benefactors or Stolenwealth (sic) and demand justice, truth and accountability for all. Justice for all,” the group wrote.
This is brilliant: it’s the best rebuttal of the “Indigenous Voice” referendum I can think of. These fauxboriginal dicktwiddlers will do more to advance the “No” vote than a 100 op-eds or a million tweets.
There’s also no end of unintentional hilarity in a group calling itself “warriors” and “resistance” at the same time that they’re whingeing about having their arses handed to them for the last 200 years. Some warriors. A tip: belting women and kids doesn’t make you a “warrior”.
As for this…
While supporters have hailed her 70-year reign, some Indigenous leaders say the British monarchy represents a violent history.
Unlike, of course, the 50,000 years of appalling violence that pre-dated the British in Australia. As historian Geoffrey Blainey (who holds pre-settlement Australia in high esteem, it must be pointed out) admits: “one of their fairly typical periods of battles and duels [… exceeded] a European nation at its most violent period”. Blainey cites the testimony related by an elderly Aboriginal to an early official: “before the British arrived, ‘the country was strewn with bones, and we were always at war”.
Even today, violence, mostly against women and children, is a horrifyingly disproportionate feature of Aboriginal communities. In recent weeks, an entire town was deserted in the face of roving gangs of armed men.
It’s notable that we don’t see any protests about that from urban-based paleface activists.
Nor do we see them handing back the “colonisers” money or sinecures.
Macquarie University academic and Wiradjuri woman Sandy O’Sullivan […]
Macquarie University research fellow and Dharug community member, Jo Rey
Daily Mail
Now, if you’ve never heard of these two academic powerhouses, I can’t imagine why. I mean, O’Sullivan has a whopping total of eight academic publications (co-written with five authors), with a staggering 11 citations; Rey has… wait for it! One! Yes, one publication – co-written, of course.. Cited a whole eight times (which is at least just scraping in as average impact).
You’d have to be a cynic to suggest that “Aboriginality” is the only way such folk are even remotely employable. Or that endless whingeing is their bread and butter, no matter how much the victim mentality actually harms the prospects of Aboriginal Australians. As Warren Mundine puts it, “Young Aboriginal people will be ruined by the mindset that every problem Aboriginal people suffer today … is explained by history’s wrongdoings and traumas of colonisation supposedly continuing through current generations.”
Yeah, but at least some inner-city activist whose great-great-grandmother was 1/16 Aboriginal is making a very nice living.
And doing the “No” vote the best favour we could ask for.
