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LiAUSTRALIA DAY

If you have Aboriginal friends, family or just respect Aboriginal people and consider yourself NOT to be someone who discriminates against Aboriginals but wasn’t aware of Australia’s dark past, then please take the time to read this and ask yourselves these questions...

- Would you expect the Jews to celebrate with Hitler or as a nation on the anniversary of the holocaust?

- Would you ask and expect the victims and family members of the Twin Towers to celebrate the fall, with terrorists on the anniversary?

- Would you expect the Armenian people and the Turks to celebrate the birthday of the Sultan?

Did you answer ‘NO’ to any of the above?

Then why would you expect us as Aboriginal people, the proud people we were and still are today, to celebrate Australia Day?

On a day that saw Dispossession, Murder, Rape, Massacre, Genocide, Disease and the demise of well balanced eco and governance systems?

Would you tell the family of the Jews to get over it?

Would you tell the Twin Tower victims families and friends, or New York to get over it?

Would you tell the Armenian people and the ANZACs who fought for the freedom of the Armenian and the Turks to get over it?

Did you answer ‘NO’? Why?

Isn’t it equally unfair and unjust to ask this of your ‘apparent’ fellow ‘Aboriginal Australian’?

Why is it that each of the occurrences above; the Holocaust, fall of the Twin Towers and war of the Armenians (aka World War 1) considered times of sombe remembrance. But Aboriginal Australia must celebrate with every other race, considering the past acts of injustice and immortality our people have been, and are still subjected to?

If this date of anniversary was the date that your child, mother, father, brother, sister, community etc. was raped, murdered or unlawfully incarcerated. Would you and your people as a collective want to celebrate?

Then, would you force this celebration on people still mourning and healing on what should be a sombre day of remembrance; just like other international genocide and unjust treatment or incidents.

Ask yourself... Why should you expect Aboriginal Australia to celebrate on this date?

You wouldn’t expect it for non-Aboriginal people, so don’t expect it from me or my people.

Are you still prepared to celebrate the blood shed of a shameful settlement?

Like it or not... This nation was built on the lash of the sword and the firing of the gun. Aboriginal Men, Women and Children slaughtered. That’s nothing to celebrate. That’s nothing to be proud of Australia.

There are many more significant dates that can be CELEBRATED for the right reasons that make for a BETTER, REAL Australia Day that EVERYONE can celebrate UNITED.

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