[#]NotMyKing
'You committed genocide against our people. Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us — our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people. You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty. You are not our King.'
Article Quote:
"Everything Thorpe said to King Charles was profoundly true. The Australian colonies were founded on stolen land, steeped in the blood of those who had lived here for millennia by those who forged new societies in the name of the Crown Charles now wears. Not much respect shown by the Crown during Settlement. It is in the Crown’s name too that so many First Nations’ people are enthusiastically pursued by our contemporary legal system – subjected to brutal over-policing, incarcerated in wildly disproportionate numbers, dying in custody with heartbreaking regularity.
Thorpe’s loud targeted protest was reported across the world as the global press wrote of our “complex and challenging history”. Despite Watt’s demurral, her words made a huge impact, proving much more effective when shouted in person than in the pages of the three “respectful” letters Thorpe wrote to Charles in advance of the Royal Tour – letters he ignored in which she asked for a meeting to discuss the issues she later raised in Parliament’s Great Hall, including the repatriation of Aboriginal remains still languishing in institutions across the UK."
https://theshot.net.au/uncategorized/this-is-what-truth-telling-looks-like/
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