my apology to the aborigines
We apologise for giving you doctors and free medical care,
which allows
you to survive and multiply so that you can demand apologies.
We apologise for helping you to read and teaching you the
English language
and thus we opened up to you the entire European civilisation,
thought and
enterprise.
We feel that we must apologise for building hundreds of homes
for you,
which you have vandalised and destroyed.
We apologise for giving you law and order which has helped
prevent you
from slaughtering one another and using the unfortunate for
food purposes.
We apologise for developing large farms and properties, which
today feed
you people, where before, you had the benefits of living off
the land and
starving during droughts.
We apologise for providing you with warm clothing made of
fabric to
replace that animal skins/dogs you used before.
We apologise for building roads and railway tracks between
cities and
building cars so that you no longer have to walk over harsh
terrain.
We apologise for paying off your vehicle when you fail to pay
the
instalments.
We apologise for giving you free travel anywhere, whenever.
We apologise for giving each and every member of your family
$100.00 and
free travel to attend an aboriginal funeral.
We apologise for not charging you rent on any lands when white
people have
to pay.
We apologise for giving you interest free loans.
We apologise for developing oil wells and minerals, including
gold and
diamonds which you never used and had no idea of their value.
We apologise for developing Ayers rock and Kakadu, and handing
them over
to you so that you get all the money.
We apologise for allowing taxpayers money paid towards
daughters'
wedding ($8,000.00 each daughter)
We apologise for giving you $1.7 billion per year for your
250,000 people,
which is $48,000.00 per aboriginal man, woman and child.
We apologise for working hard to pay taxes that finance your
welfare,
medical care, education, etc to the tune of $1.2 billion each
year.
We apologise for you having to approach the aboriginal affairs
department
to verify the above figures. For the trouble you will have
identifying
the "uncle toms" in your own community who are getting richer
and leaving
some of you living in squalor and poverty.
We do apologise. We really do.
We humbly beg your forgiveness for all the above sins.
We are only too happy to take back all the above and return you
to the
paradise of the "outback", whenever you are ready.
sorry!
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