Happy Australia? Invasion? Survival? day all :)

[lobs211]

I always fail at trying to talk about Indigenous stuff cos it always turns nasty - still not sure why that is...............

Anyway my little family making plans to celebrate Survival Day - yeah yeah SURVIVAL DAY - we celebrate we survied & are here but more importantly culture has survived, besides best efforts to kill it and us off

Now before the usual lot carry on and all the same old "get over it" blah blah blah - I wonder if you would consider something? Just think about this for a minute then on u go with ur day 🙂

Just imagine that when the japanese were bombing Aust, just imagine if they took over Aust, say Feb 9th 1942. Just imagine that for a minute. Japanese ppl all moved into your houses, you could ONLY speak japanese etc ect, not even gonna talk about killing babies, taking women, stealing children - just imagine they took over. And you are NOT happy about it 😞

Would you celebrate Feb 9th? They tell you its the day the country was made great, the best day, the day you will celebrate EVERY year? Would you do it??

Hmmmm?

We do celebrate it, I choose not to call it Invasion Day, I choose to call it Survival Day and we will celebrate it.

We are back out bush until the 27th so HAPPY Jan 26th - whatever you wanna call it, stay safe everyone and I can come back in here tonight and when in town - haters gonna hate but it would be cool to have a conversation without the **bleep**??

[izabsmiling]

Hi Lobs,

I myself feel angry enough when I hear the leader of my Country talk about 'the First Australians...being those who arrived on ships and declared this land uninhabited (broke their own Laws of that time)..... even now some neglect to consider the real owners/ first people of Australia as what they are and that they 'were' here at that time.Those sorts of comments and attitudes aren't limited to him though .Amazingly some don't even seem to get what is wrong about claims like that .

Survival day is apt imo

and I still see it being  'Exclusion day' .

It's time for the 'Ex' at the being of the word Excusion to be what is should ..an 'In' 

It's so wrong that needs to be an issue in  our Country in 2014

It should go without saying 

Enjoy your time in the bush and Happy Survival day 

[*ibis]

people with white guilt should do themselves and everyone else a favor and go back to europe

[izabsmiling]

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@*ibis wrote:

people with white guilt should do themselves and everyone else a favor and go back to europe

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would you like to rewrite our Country's history 

as well as select who you feel should live here ?

[bluecat*dancing]

Those who condone the mistreatment of the Aboriginal Peoples, past and present, have no conscience.and are selfish and arrogant.

[the_great_she_elephant]

Maybe those who refuse to accept reality would be better off with an ostrich as their ID.

[cherry*135]

Happy Survival Day lobs

lobs wrote:

 haters gonna hate but it would be cool to have a conversation without the **bleep**?

(those that want to argue/disrupt go do it somewhere else please)

[nero_bolt]

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@*ibis wrote:

people with white guilt should do themselves and everyone else a favor and go back to europe

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100%  agree.

Why are still to blame for what happened 226 years ago?  

[silverfaun]

lts called the black armband view of history.

[izabsmiling]

Nero Wulf, I am an Australian who accepts the history and all of people in my Country 

are you are missing out on something  when Australians do that ? 

[azureline**]

Happy 26th of January Lobs and family!