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Originally posted by cheebacheeba
, certain people to this day, over 200 years later, feel they are owed some kind of special treatment and apologies from my people, sadly don't seem to realise that in doing this, they are only perpetuating what should be a long-dead issue,
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Maybe if the people who were affected were long dead, but the thing is they aren't long dead. There is a lot of people still alive who effected by the goverments policy, and they don't want a apology off you, they want it off the goverment. And i think they should get one, It was a policy that makes anything the u.s goverment did to the blacks there as harmless. They wanted to wipe those people off the face of the earth. Which they did in tasmania a whole race gone. I know people in their 50's who tell me of the time, of how they weren't allowed in town after dark were paid lower wages, or weren't even allowed to buy thier own home. One man told me how he had a permit to live in town, but had to go beg for permission so he could go see his family who lived on the out skirts of town.
Australias policies back in the late sixties early seventies would put any law in south africa to shame. there are worse stories, kids being taken from parents for no reason etc. and i mean thousands of kids. so if you think Australia isn't a racist country or anything bad thing were only done to people who are long dead, then you're a bigger idiot than i first thought.