by Doug Jewell <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Feb 15, 2008 at 06:20 AM
RogerM wrote:
> I've still been thinking about this apology and all the political
> correctness bull**** and snowballing effect ($'s) that will go with it.
Have
> they really considered the other side of the equation? I
> mean......................
>
> What if the bad whites of the day did nothing to take the children from
the
> squalor of their upbringing?
>
> What if the children had of died from sickness and diseases?
>
> What if those children who were raped and brutalised then committed
suicide?
>
> What if the giving of the gift of a second chance in life never
happened?
>
> What if the governments of the day were really "trying" to help?
>
> What if we did all the above, would we be saying sorry today for not
> "trying" to help?
>
> Can you add to this?
>
> Roger :>(
Exactly - and what is ignored is that at the time there were
also plenty of white kids taken away from their parents and
put in the care of other families.
The same still happens today, but the various government
departments who are responsible are less likely to take
children from their homes - hence we have seen a rise in
child abuse - sometimes even leading to death - and we see
the rise in both black and white.
Do we take the kids out of their homes for their own
protection, and risk creating a whole new "stolen
generation"? or do we simply leave them where they are so
they suffer abuse?
Perhaps in some cases the problems can be solved by
addressing the problems with the parents, but in many cases
these are so ingrained that ultimately the child will need
to be removed for it's own safety.
