#its a celebration of the mass genocide of the aboriginal and torres strait islander people

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always was, always will be aboriginal land ❤️💛🖤

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firstly, id like to pay respect and recognition to the Bidjigal people of the Dharug land. they are the rightful owners of this land on which i live and worship. may God guide us all towards justice, solidarity and truth-telling.

january 26th is a day of mourning for the first nations people of what we now call australia. most people think its a day to celebrate the first fleet of captain cook 'discovering' this land. when in fact this day has been grossly twisted through means of ignorance and racism into a day that celebrates the beginning of a genocide for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this land.

today i sat through a sermon at my church where my reverend talked about equity, unity and diversity; while simultaneously celebrating invasion day. i love my reverend, but how blindly hypocritical is that. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples make up only about 3% of the population of this country. 3 percent. that number could not have been reached without the help of slavery, the stolen generation, hate crimes, violent attacks and massacres as well as mass incarceration and deaths in custody. and people still continue to think that its appropriate to commemorate killers, invaders, and colonialists for granting us this 'lucky country'.

this country and its atrocious government have wronged its first nations peoples beyond repair. we continue to belittle, disadvantage, incarcerate at astronomically high levels, kill, and outright ignore them. its just disgusting. God would never want any single person EVER to be treated with such abhorrent disrespect and negligence. God would not celebrate invasion day and neither should anyone else.

this is a day of mourning and its not a date to celebrate.