26 January – Invasion Day, Australia’s day of racism
Invasion Day, as it should be called, celebrates the dispossession of land, culture, and way of life of Aborigines.
Australia Day — No time to celebrate, Indymedia Australia, By Jay McDonald, 25 Jan 2011, Australia Day is traditionally the most racist day of the year for Aboriginal people.
When people celebrate on January 26, there is no escaping the fact they are celebrating the day that one race of people invaded another race of people’s country and took control of Aboriginal lands and tried to dominate Aboriginal people.
Invasion Day, as it should be called, celebrates the dispossession of land, culture, and way of life of Aborigines. Aborigines and members of the wider community should not allow this to continue. Otherwise we are saying that it was ok to try to destroy the Aboriginal way of life, to murder Aborigines and to attempt cultural genocide…………
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