@i-need-a-martini wrote:
Clearly you watched the program but through glasses tinted with ignorance. No, tinted with reality.
Because although you heard about an aboriginal community that managed to fight against the problem of booze, you obviously missed the intro to that where Weaving noted that the federal government has just removed funding to help with the type of programs these women implemented. How do they fight the problem without funding and support? How much funding did it require for those women to STAND UP AND SAY NO?
And whilst you blamed the women for drinking while they were pregnant, I heard about women with generations of problems with addiction which could be solved with funding for education. Addictions that white people introduced them to BTW. This generational problem you speak of? It's strange that the grandmother in this scenario (the offending woman's mother) didn't have those problems and in fact was looking after her grandchildren. Are you saying that it was her (white) husband's influence that allowed her to be that way or are you saying that the problem skipped a generation?
And whilst you saw a man who couldn't say no to breaking the law, I heard that (aside from the cultural obligations these men had) they lived in communities with hardly any cars and absolutely no public transport living in isloted communities thousands of miles away from the local shops. I have seen numerous threads on here CONDEMING drink drivers and those who continue to drive after disqualification - are you saying that should NOT APPLY TO EVERYONE - ONLY ABORIGINALS. Did you also note WHERE the person wanted to go? Was it the Doctors - was he ill? I could understand that. BUT - No, it was 'the bottleo' - the bottle shop that his friend so urgently HAD to go to.
And whilst you heard that 15% of indigenous are more likely to be in gaol, I heard that the majority are in there for trivial reasons that no white man would ever be incarcerated for. If I drink drive and get caught and then CONTINUALLY drive and get caught - I GO TO PRISON which is what those guys were in for. As the prison governor said, they would have been let off at first, but after they continually did it they would go to prison and this guy had been to prison 18 times.
4 out of 5 of those people shared your views. And then they changed their attitude about their own prejudices. Why do you think that is?
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