Something uplifting for the moment…

A month or so ago, the government of Australia did something most unusual among us children of grand white Britain by apologizing to its aboriginal peoples for the abuses they have suffered.

Then the conservative leader of the opposition stood up to give his own racist semi-”apology” which basically that everyone had intended well and it’s a shame how it turned out to be genocidal and oops, and isn’t assimilation really a grand idea?

Here and elsewhere in Australia, the assembled crowds who’d come to listen to the announcement outside then responded by turning their backs on the speech:

Well done, people.

~ by orangechurch on April 15, 2008.