RACISM AND DINGAAL LAND RIGHTS IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
"This is a S.O.S. call…When I call the RSPCA, the same one we have in Canada. The RSPCA stands for the Royal Society against Cruelty to Animals. They have admitted that full blood Aboriginal people are seen as gorillas because that's what the Reverends and Church officials,,,in 1780 when they first colonized this country that Aboriginal people were no more than monkeys. And the RSPCA is agreeing at this moment they're still classified as animals and monkeys." Ruth Schaefer, Advocate.
"Yah, ya. They still call me a monkey. They always say I'm a monkey… And government people,,,everywhere I travel they call me
Black Monkey. Monkey don't own this. You don't own this land. We own the land. We own the land. Not you." Gordon Charlie, Dingaal Clan Elder and Custodian of traditional customs and laws.
"Nothing in the legislation,,,can change that. So, therefore we need the RSPCA to say they are a very much endangered species,,,full ancestry Black Aboriginal elder… We make a presentation and invite to Black America and Black Canada to support your brotherhood. Because you just do not treat Black people like this."
"And I have never seen Black people getting treated so bad by government staff taking down to them, by lawyers treating them like children, by government lying to them and saying they are going to consult you, but when it comes to consulting they dictate a totalitarian agenda, to say 'Oh, we understand you don't want your land to be transferred to one land trust at Hopevale, integrating Cape Flattery, too bad we are going to do it anyway Gordon. And there is nothing you can do."
"It's so much of a breach of the United Nations Declaration on Self-Governance and Self-Government of the people. Now its time to stand up to the Government that is doing this and say you have governed incorrectly for so long, for so wrong, we now want to do it ourselves."
Ruth Schaefer, Advocate
March 2013
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