Only 16% or something of Americans say they're not affiliated with any religion whatsoever. And only 25% of Americans are African Americans.
So no need to treat them as some special case. Fool.
Because they lived here for 60,000+ years and we came in, as an invading force, and dispossessed them of their land. The least we can do is a brief statement at the start of functions.
And the pitiful ranting and raving of an illiterate whinger like you isn't gonna change anything.
Yeah they shouldn't be doin that, certainly. Maybe just set out to tell every single one of them that the black Papua New Guineans, Samoans and Micronesians have it on their flags as well.
While I hate the things and anyone who has one is automatically in my bad books, I don't think this is really an argument.
There is a fair bit of historical significance with the Southern Cross in Australia, with the Eureka flag and what not. But the nationalist bogans have taken it over...
Oh and I live in Manly on the Northern Beaches, and we're not all posh or bogans. Just live in the best damn place in Sydney.
(Although you do get a fair few unsavoury characters heading up to Narrabeen and Dee Why. No offense.)
Oh come on you can't seriously believe that.
The vast majority of violent criminals are poor, and it just so happens that a lot of Aboriginals and Islanders are in poverty. So they account for a lot of crime.
It's not a genetic predisposition, that's absolutely ridiculous.
Aborigines never...
yes, i agree that many communities are doomed to collapse. but the thread singled out aboriginal ones as somehow unique in that respect. they have the same chance of thriving as any other community, when they're treated right. which they haven't been since...ever.
it's not a cop out at all...
Nobody is arguing that there isn't a problem in Aboriginal communities.
No one is arguing that the state of the welfare system is fine right now.
And no one here is not concerned about the issue, however they feel about it.
I don't necessarily want more money injected into it, I want the...