Numbers coming home from Australia?

This is a typical example of people who want to stop Australia being a 'racist' (whatever that means) country by failing to specify clearly and exactly what change is required and how it will help.

Changing the constitution may be a step in that direction but what will it actually change on the ground? Aboriginal leaders whenever I have heard them always talk about their culture, their freedom of mind and freedom as a people. That is fine, nobody wants to see a people suffer but again they fail to specify exactly what they want. They are great at tugging at the heart strings and taking about things that are intangible, impossible to measure.

It seems on the face of it they want their cake and eat it. They want to return to their traditional way of life which is basically a hunter and gathering lifestyle but then they want all the trappings of a modern society (modern medicine, housing, electricity) and of course get others to pay for it. Anytime one mentions the huge problems their communities have with alcohol, domestic abuse, substance abuse and child abuse they are sneered at and pointed out as a racist of some sort. People need to get real and face facts.

My own personal opinion is that aboriginals can do what they want, its their lives and I will not be telling them how to live their lives. However, stop over playing the 'white guilt' card and take personal responsibility for your own people, and make whatever lifestyle and cultural choices you make sustainable in the long run without having to basically be a drain on the tax system.

It is a complicated issue but simple answers from people like car bear and john pillager remind me of the same do gooders that thought it was OK to take babies from their mothers to raise them 'white'. The state continues to interfere in these affairs and as usual does more harm then good.