The Australian Aborigines, their untold story

On May 27, 1967 the Australian “Referendum” declared that Australian “Aborigines” were acknowledged and recognized as “Legal Citizens” of their own country. Before that, they were considered “Wards Of The State” and classified as plants and wildlife along with kangaroos and koalas.

Until the Australian “Referendum” the “Aborigines” were not officially acknowledged and recognized as a race of human beings. They were acknowledged and recognized as “Flora And Fauna” which prefers and refers to wild-life and plant-life respectively.

They were confined to “White” controlled reservations and forbidden to travel without special permission. They were not allowed in public establishments without permission and were paid wages in meat and salt. While some traditional lands have been handed back to the “Aborigines” of Australia they remain on the whole underprivileged and disadvantaged economically, politically, and socially.

Many of their societies and communities are ravaged by drug addiction, alcoholism, and violence. Many Australian “Aborigines” are still waiting for an official apology for the “Stolen Generation” in which thousands of their children were forcibly removed from their families and assimilated into “White” societies and communities under a policy introduced early last century and not abandoned until 1975.

This is a prime example of the racist and prejudice bigoted concept and ideology of “White” superiority and supremacy. JAMES DAVID AGUIRRE (COPYRIGHT)