no settler mens comments
Sorry Day? How can the government claim to be sorry for the actions it continues to do?
When Kevin Rudd first apologised for the Stolen Generations back in 08, our child removal rates were bordering on those of the official Stolen Generations policies of the 1900s.
Every year since, our child removal rates have continued to rise.
During the height of the stolen generations, it is estimated that anywhere from 1 in 5 to 1 in 10 Aboriginal children were taken. Today, 1 in 4 children come into contact with the system.
Many of these children aren't placed in the care of their extended family, or even their community.
Some of these children, in an act of continued assimilation practices, are even taken outside of this continent to be raised in places like Europe by white parents.
This kidnapping of our children by the colony must end. Our children aren't a commodity or novelty for settlers to acquire, they're our future and legacy, and they're real, living people who belong with their family on their country.
[from the BPU Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/share/19ZMyqCRBc/]