Aboriginal flag may continue to fly at Riverina council despite controversial vote to take it down

I’d love to see how you rationalise or use logic to justify any claim of racism.
Unilaterally adopting to display the Aboriginal flag without the agreement of the people you represent is clearly an imperialist act.
A majority of Australians are heartily sick of having parts of the Indigenous agenda rammed down their throats without their agreement or consent.

Is it really racist though? Our nations flag is meant to represent everyone, if we feel the need to have different flags for different groups of Australians than it contradicts the song lyrics “we are one but we are many.” To be honest it all feels very divided.

@franky
A majority of Australians are heartily sick of having these racists on their little power plays seeking to cause division by ramming a flag with a foreign insignia down our throats without our agreement or consent! And spare me that BS that Mayor Cheryl Cook is spouting that the Australian flag is a display of unity and civic neutrality!

Not to mention those “kind hearted country folk” and their families, including some of the names on the council list who voted to remove the Aboriginal flag, whose families benefited so generously from Aboriginal dispossession!

So we should completely shut down any ability to recognise the ‘we are many’ bit should we?

What a strange contradictory comment.

Jack you love to throw around the term “racist” without explaining how in any way is the council’s action racist.

I’ll give you an example of blatant racism. That would be giving someone a financial benefit based solely on their racial background. Like getting your private school fees paid without any means testing based on your racial identity. Thats racism.

Well we know where your prejudices lay franky and I am sure you would argue all day throwing up any amount of biases you hold towards the Aborigines, which is what you types do!

But let’s put this into perspective and those perks enjoyed by the rest of the population. For example, what about those good rural types, those farmers and primary producers claiming and rorting the system by claiming many millions of dollars in tax breaks. Falsely claiming personal items as business expenses to receive tax deductions. Exploiting employees in unpaid taxes and superannuation entitlements. Outdated zone boundaries which allow those from rural and remote communities to claim concessions while residing in large and well developed cities and earning well above median incomes. I could go on … and on!!

Don’t get me started on the NDIS!

@Jack D. – I don’t know why the ‘rural types’ have triggered you so much. But if you have any strong evidence (or perhaps even indications) of the types of crimes (yes, you are calling out them a put as if they are illegal behaviours), then go to the authorities and get your revenge.

Thanks for that insightful feedback DJA! I am not even sure how it adds to the conversation but anyway!

Maybe I can put it another way so that you and franky can understand.

franky has expressed her angst at Indigenous Australians receiving financial support to access education based on their racial background, which she considers “blatant racism”. She uses a number of mistruths to describe this support.

All governments implement many different financial support schemes to those in our communties who need help or are seeking assistance. This includes our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, the most marginalised peoples in our country after years of repression and abuse. Assistance which will provide financial and other support services they have previously been denied, including health and education. That is what all good governments do. Unfortunately we have those in our society, mostly from the conservative side of politics in both rural and city communities using it against them. Taking steps to cause division amongst their citizens to undermine and deny them their basic rights, and an opportunity to be valued parts of their communities and access essential services we all enjoy. This racism has been playing out for quite some time and is always good media fodder!

We are seeing it again in the the Riverina where their councils are seeking to remove the Aboriginal Flag from public display, and a discontinuance of Welcomes to Country at public and ceremonial events. These are powerful symbols to our Indigenous communities, and these acknowledgments are the respect we show to them as our First Nations people after years of neglect.

These councils and their representatives, those who have benefited so much from Aboriginal dispossession and are continuing to do so, using the same racist language we always hear from them, that removing Indigenous flags and Welcomes to Country promotes civic neutrality!

@Jack D. – I grew up in a predominantly indigenous and multi-cultural region. Clearly (not just from your last couple of posts) you haven’t and are quite happy to throw your white-privileged views around like the colonist you want to be.

But – and I will make this simple so that you can understand – you made some allegations of wrongdoing in your previous post. That you are not prepared to take the necessary action on this means that you support (and encourage) such shonky behaviour – perhaps you are even benefiting from it.

Despite your unformed opinions DJA I was born in and spent the first 10 years of my life in a small rural and multi cultured community, with a large Indigenous population. My family had lived in this community and the surrounding districts for the previous five generations. Many of them still do. This community, including its Indigenous residents were close friends and worked alongside my family members for generations, we were hardly privileged!

It is not hard to work out where you stand on racial issues with your uninformed and prejudicial comments, anonymous and prevalent in social media!

The allegations I made in my post have been well researched by government and reported in the media. They can be found by doing a simple Google search!