"Welcome To Country" Speeches .......... Gone Too Far Now ??

[LordLucifer]

The guy who did the 'welcome to country' ceremony prior to the Giants V Lions game semi-final seemed to use the platform more as a divisive political tool than a genuine & proud showing of the way the indigenous people have done things for many years.

There has been a lot of condemnation for his comments, especially the "BC ...... before Cook" part with observers in the media calling for this stuff to stop. The irony was that he introduced himself as a "cultural educator from the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council" but he was not culturally sensitive at all.

“A Welcome to Country is not a ceremony we’ve invented to cater for white people”.

If these indigenous leaders are going to use primetime TV as an opportunity to be somewhat insulting & controversial like he did, should the AFL discontinue the practice ??

 

[Nostradumbass]

Dunny break

 

[Forward Press]

This is gonna end well.

 

[kane249]

His comments were out of line, but I don't think we should discontinue the practice on the back of it.

 

[Chief]

The guy who did the 'welcome to country' ceremony prior to the Giants V Lions game semi-final seemed to use the platform more as a divisive political tool than a genuine & proud showing of the way the indigenous people have done things for many years.

He debunked (or refuted) the idea that it is something made up purely for white people.

Why that should be a problem for some people is probably for them to work out for themselves.

 

[PhatBoy]

I think it actually could have been a decent tool worded slightly better: the volume of times some idiot online says ‘why am I being welcomed to my own country, I’m as Australian as he is’

I liked that someone actually explained quite clearly that it’s not a welcome to Australia it’s a local welcome to tribal country in that particular area for anyone visiting. He worded it and presented it a little poorly though

 

[Bianconeri]

He debunked the idea that it is something made up purely for white people.

Why that should be a problem for some people is probably for them to work out for themselves.

Whilst getting paid mostly by white people to an audience of mainly white people.

 

[Chief]

Whilst getting paid mostly by white people to an audience of mainly white people.

So that means he shouldn't have told the truth?

 

[Teen Wolf]

Definitely made me feel uncomfortable, which is all that matters because I'm a delicate snowflake.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

This thread will attract the same racist flies.

 

[Bianconeri]

So that means he shouldn't have told the truth?

Firstly, the very act of him accepting money from white people to welcome white people contradicts his truth.

Secondly, it means he should have picked a better platform to tell the truth or at least considered his audience when attempting educate. And when telling the truth it’s best to stick to the accepted figures instead of making up your own as it leads people to call into question the rest of your statement.

 

[ElectricG]

I think it actually could have been a decent tool worded slightly better: the volume of times some idiot online says ‘why am I being welcomed to my own country, I’m as Australian as he is’

What was his actual rebuttal to that? He seemed to call it out and then confirm it in the next breath.

 

[Bostonian]

It should be something used for major events to welcome people from around the world.

When you use it any chance you get it loses any kind of meaning.

 

[RAPPA]

Did somebody say KFC?

 

[Bartel84]

No problem with it here. Truth telling at its finest

 

[Bostonian]

No problem with it here. Truth telling at its finest

Except the bit about 250,000.

Fabrication.

 

[Hawksboy72]

I always thought BC was a reference to Black Caviar....probably time to get re-educated.

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[Bostonian]

I always thought BC was a reference to Black Caviar....probably time to get re-educated.

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RIP

 

[RUNVS]

As much as I am sympathetic to what the Aboriginal people have been through it is pretty unfair to blame Cook. Given the era of exploration from the European powers and then colonising the places they found a European colony was going to be coming to Australia one way or another. It isn't like if Cook never existed the Aboriginal people would still be living as they were the previous 60,000 years in 2024.

 

[LordLucifer]

I think it actually could have been a decent tool worded slightly better: the volume of times some idiot online says ‘why am I being welcomed to my own country, I’m as Australian as he is’

I liked that someone actually explained quite clearly that it’s not a welcome to Australia it’s a local welcome to tribal country in that particular area for anyone visiting. He worded it and presented it a little poorly though

The way he explained it made a lot of sense and gave clarity to why they do it, that part of his speech was terrific.

The rest ...... ??

 

[TheGoatBaron]

Did somebody say KFC?

I don’t care… I love it

 

[Lingsface]

I always thought BC was a reference to Black Caviar....probably time to get re-educated.

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Ben Cousins

 

[GhostofJimJess]

The guy who did the 'welcome to country' ceremony prior to the Giants V Lions game semi-final seemed to use the platform more as a divisive political tool than a genuine & proud showing of the way the indigenous people have done things for many years.

There has been a lot of condemnation for his comments, especially the "BC ...... before Cook" part with observers in the media calling for this stuff to stop. The irony was that he introduced himself as a "cultural educator from the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council" but he was not culturally sensitive at all.

“A Welcome to Country is not a ceremony we’ve invented to cater for white people”.

If these indigenous leaders are going to use primetime TV as an opportunity to be somewhat insulting & controversial like he did, should the AFL discontinue the practice ??

Take it to Facebook mate. The comments section on there usually respond well to this sort of thing.

 

[Lingsface]

As much as I am sympathetic to what the Aboriginal people have been through it is pretty unfair to blame Cook. Given the era of exploration from the European powers and then colonising the places they found a European colony was going to be coming to Australia one way or another. It isn't like if Cook never existed the Aboriginal people would still be living as they were the previous 60,000 years in 2024.

And another captain cook brought us so much joy with multiple Ashes losses.

 

[LordLucifer]

This is gonna end well.

Rather sad that you want to completely dismiss this because you are either too immature or too narrow-minded to discuss the topic in a sensible manner.