Stop dwelling on past
AS if the COVID crisis has not been enough, the world, including Australia, has gone mad, lurching from crises to crises, a goodly portion of which has been man-made.
The latest has been born from the black deaths in custody saga in trigger-happy USA.
Extremists around the world quickly seized on it to start a spontaneous worldwide “revolution”, Black Lives Matter, which snowballed, attracting numerous allied “grievances” worldwide, along the way.
The rebellion gained traction in England and Australia, virtually the next day, with surprising rapidity, and one cannot help but be suspicious of the motives and organisational capability that incited the world to take up the racist banner virtually as one.
Here in Australia, the racist drum was beaten in large street demonstrations, and of course, tried to turn back the clock to 1788 when colonisation commenced.
Colonisation has been a dirty word, with French, British, Dutch, Belgian, Spanish and German governments all guilty of crimes involving indigenous peoples, but just doing what those times reflected all around the world.
It does not excuse it, but that was the nature of the beast at that time.
No one in Australia denies that mistreatment of our own Aboriginal population occurred and, no doubt, most Australians would sympathise with their descendants today.
But how much longer do we have to say “sorry” and feel guilt for what occurred 200 years ago at the hands of our forefathers, who were only doing what was happening worldwide at that time?
Yes injustices occurred, but that was yesterday, and no amount of “ifs or buts”, is going to change one damn thing.
And now all this nonsense about place names etc, is rearing its ugly head, and statues are being vandalised.
Where and when is it all going to end?
We can’t keep drawing lines on the football field when the goalposts are continually being moved.
And the worst part is the goalposts are being moved not by the traditional adult Aboriginals but by young activists who know not what they do.
DON MORRIS, Cranbrook.