Google| Subject | Re: Governers-General (was Re: Queen mother (of Britain) has died) |
| From | Donald Shepherd |
| Date | 2002-04-04 04:51 (2002-04-04 12:51) |
| Message-ID | <MPG.17165cc598d0707f989819@mail.uq.edu.au> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | AC |
| Followups | Flame of the West (4h & 15m) |
In article <3cab8e7b.171274800@news2.randori.com>, AC (spam@nospam.com) says...
ACThis sounds remarkably similar to the Australian "Stolen Generation", where a number of Aboriginal (numbers vary, anywhere between 10,000 and 100,000, depending upon the source) children were removed from their parents and placed in foster homes in order to "breed the black out of them". I haven't heard of any widespread abuse in that system however, although it's appearing that in many other church-run residential schools it was a common occurence. I don't know much about the details, but it may be just a matter of time. The PM still refuses to say 'Sorry' to the Stolen Generation, on the basis that it's admitting fault, and could open the government up to lawsuits... -- Donald Shepherd <donald_shepherd@hotmail.com>
I live in Canada, and up here we had Indian residential school systems run by a number of churches (Catholic, Anglican, etc.) The abuse that went on was horrific. One Anglican diocese in British Columbia has been bankrupted and has ceased to exist. That, I guess, is the ultimate price to pay. But governments have also been labelled by some as being at least partially responsible. The government has a "social" goal of turning Indians into good Anglo-saxons by tearing them away from their parents and placing them in the care of these schools, and never really bothering to check into what was going on.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
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