As I’ve written many times, Black Lives Matter is nothing more than a barking-mad conspiracy theory. Leaving aside its unabashed racism and lunatic Marxist ideology, practically none of its claims of “systemic racism” stand up to serious scrutiny.
The Australian left, sheep-like as ever, have naturally flocked to the BLM banner. The Antipodean BLM wannabes are every bit as fact-free as their American role models.
The great rallying-cry of Australia’s race-baiters is “Indigenous deaths in custody”. Like the drooling American idiots who gibber idiotic fantasies about police “hunting unarmed black men”, the cretinous Australian left are utterly convinced that there is a veritable production-line of blackfella-killing going on in Australia’s jail cells.
Needless to say, it’s an utter load of bulldust.
This year marks 30 years since the final report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, initiated on the premise that racism must have been playing a principal role in these deaths.
No such finding was made and the report found no evidence of widespread racism. Also, contrary to the widely held belief that proportionately more Aboriginal Australians die in custody than non-Indigenous Australians, it was found this was not the case.
As David Biles, who led the commission’s criminology research group for three years, wrote in 2016, there was proof “Aboriginal people were slightly less likely to die in prison or police custody than non-Aboriginal people”, and this has not changed.
In fact, not only are Aboriginal Australians less likely than others to die in custody, they’re less likely to die in custody than in their own communities.
It is true that Aboriginal incarceration rates are much higher than for other Australians, but the left’s unquestioning belief that this can only be due to racism simply doesn’t hold water.
No one would dispute that Australia was exceedingly racist towards Aborigines in the early 20th century. Yet Aboriginal incarceration rates were dramatically lower. It’s only in the last 50 years – a period of endless reform, legal and cultural – that Aboriginal incarceration rates have skyrocketed.
The extension of full citizenship rights to Aboriginal Australians has resulted in the recognition of their right to expect the full protection of the law — including from violence inflicted on them by other Aboriginal people.
In other words, Aboriginal Australians are now treated as fully human persons. That is what philosophers call a “forensic” concept: that is, to treat a person as equal necessarily includes treating them as fully responsible for their actions.
Indigenous lives lost due to criminal activity outside of custody outstrip those lost in custody. Yet no concern is expressed for these lives when the cause cannot be blamed on racism or colonisation[…]
The Australian Institute of Criminology reported in 2019 that “Indigenous people were around eight times more likely than non-Indigenous people to commit a domestic assault that was reported to the police”. Indigenous children are likelier to be victims of child abuse, neglect and sexual abuse and exposed to family violence at a far greater rate than non-Indigenous children. These crimes, as well as the lack of respect for property rights, result in the horrific levels of incarceration of Aboriginal Australians — meanwhile unemployment, the failure of the education system, substance abuse and acceptance of violence as legitimate self-expression all contribute.
As recently reported by The BFD, when Aboriginal women from violence-wracked communities travel to Canberra to try and make their voices heard, they are all but ignored, especially by the left media. To rub salt into their raw wounds, they are attacked and vilified by the left and by “Big Men” in the Aboriginal Industry.
As long as Aboriginal leaders and academics insist, without clear evidence, that it is all caused by racism and colonisation and continue to ignore the real causes, we cannot begin to reduce homicide, violence and sexual abuse and, in turn, incarceration rates.
To suggest that we can’t solve our own problems, that we are nothing more than victims, is racism of the worst kind.
The most overlooked statement in the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody is the most important: “Only Aboriginal people can in the final analysis assure their own future.”
The Australian
As C S Lewis wrote, “to be punished, however severely, because we have deserved it, because we ‘ought to have known better’, is to be treated as a human person”.
To excuse Aboriginal violence because Aboriginal Australians are somehow incapable of knowing better, is to treat them as not fully human. Blaming “colonisation” for the bad behaviour of some Aboriginal Australians today dehumanises and infantilises them.
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