Thursday, August 17, 2006

People who sell people to people who need people

Went to see a double feature last night in support of LIFE which is a Refugee Camp Literacy program that started up in recent times. It's good stuff.
Double feature was Chappelle's block party and Rize. Both really positive stories, both really touching, my homie Amrish was digging it and singing along often. Chappelle did say 'if you want to get out of the Ghetto you gotta knuckle down and rap or play basketball or some shit.' But you got dudes like Haitian Wyclef Jean who taught himself english in a public library.
When FLN is closed Zaman and I hit the Fitzroy library and they are great fucking places. Me I want to curl up and read childrens books because they have all the awesome pictures, the very hungry caterpillar, avocado baby, where's wally these are the exotic reading experiences a library promises me but you know there's a whole huge section of ESL books and adult study aids that yeah Wyclef is right you can get yourself into a library and study and dream and make it happen for you. There's so many great public services that aren't utilised.
But that's off track. Reparations! Fucking the black slaves contribution to the US Economy by working 'for free' on plantations is when adjusted for inflation a STUPENDOUS amount of money, monies the african american people are entitled to but just isn't there. So the interim solution is to not pay it.
Now I envision anarchy should trillions of dollars be handed suddenly into the economy to a demographic that has been denied equal opportunity for most of their existence in the country. SO by no means would I suggest it is really possible to just pay out reparations but at least, at least create the elite schools, offer the scholarships and I mean to some extent these have been done already but it ain't good enough the African Americans need 'advantage' it is only right and just that they be given a boost into becoming the players and decision makers of tomorrow.
That being said when I have friends talking about the 'squandering' of welfare by the aboriginals they need to think about how fucking stupid that equation is...
Our entire economy is built on the land and resources European settlers misappropriated by simply declaring the aboriginal people don't legally fucking exist. Their fucking religion is reduced to mythology as well, we put chains and poles in Uluru (yes I climbed it the conquoring white person couldn't resist) demolished national parks so we could run one of the laziest and unsustainable economies of the world and desire more stuff.
So here's what I propose, tax reform to land tax, if you don't know why I'm a land tax fiend click on the earthsharing link, anyway put tax on the land and instead of all this 'we recognise the traditional owners' bullshit, I mean what does being a traditional owner entitle you to. Anyway have like a 2-3% tax go as reparations to the indiginous communities. That's a lot of fucking welfare, maybe even substantial enough to actually have an effect on the poverty stricken indigenous communities. But I say communities what I mean is having that money channeled through a seperate government, no more squandering money on 'administration' flying consultants out to remote communities in national parks for fishing trips, but some self determining body that can sit down and say, what services do we need to give us the advantages, do we need to advertise to combat the stereotypes?
I mean Chappelle's block party made me jealous, it was a party the white's could never throw and never have, the meaning and the spirit isn't there. And it's all positive, yet in Australia you don't have wabbo's white people imitating aboriginals, infact in the city most aboriginals you know are probably claiming to be Phillipino or Indonesian.
I know you can look at ATSIC disbanding but I mean any organisation that isn't given proper funding and support, that doesn't have leaders representitive of the communities and has to go with the begging bowl everytime it wants to fix a problem identified it's fucked from square one. I'm saying deliver the cash and resources, s constitution and get some competence into tackling the issues one at a time. Be generous enough to achieve compromise and not have outrageous demands as convenient kindling for divisive fire.
More over who cares if they wast the money buying fubu wear for the community or other such folly, they are fucking entitled to a share in the wealth we Europeans just took from them.
My brother has a cake he hasn't eaten yet. So it's right for me to eat it and when he get's angry offer him .07% of it as welfare.
Ya basta.

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