Loose control

So let us not dwell needlessly on the lives of our ancestors, whoever they were, nor allow racial variation to beget obscure privilege for some. Democratically decided rules should apply to everyone. Making different laws for different racial groups is something to be avoided, unless there is an ineludible physical or medical difference that must be addressed.

In our society, do we treat those descended from convicts as tainted? Would that not be hurtful, unfair, and divisive? Ancestry should not be significant. None of us should feel shame or responsibility for things done by our ancestors. Nor should anyone alive today carry on a feud based on ill-founded beliefs about past wrongs. What counts is behaving kindly towards each other now. Attitude should not depend on ancestry, unless you are Mrs Bucket.

We know that knowledge and infrastructure are passed down from generation to generation, but nothing else can be or should be. It seems that Albo, and others, are ignoring this fact. Have they lost their objectivity? Are they getting lost in a world of fiction? Are they being brainwashed by lobbyists?

Going forward, progress must be based on sound principles, not fanciful ideas. Those principles must exclude division along racial lines. Descendants of early inhabitants must accept that they are now the same as everyone else. They should see themselves as ordinary citizens, and all of us should stop referring to them as anything other than that. Going forward, they should merge with the rest of society without demur.