Its a damn shame what they did to the Aboriginals. Them British SAVAGES wiped out most of Tasmania in 3 years, and the young kids watching the Looney Tones cartoon don't know where the name Tasmanian Devil comes from. They been keeping this propaganda of calling the black tasmanian a devil, long after the genocide. Without this constant brainwashing, maybe this albino Squidward looking bytch Iggy Azalea wouldn't have grown up to become a white supremacist...
Reading this professor's research is heatbreaking. You can't detach from history, since we are living in history. That clock is always gonna keep ticking....
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/rose/tasmania.html
As early as 1804 the British began to slaughter, kidnap and enslave the Black people of Tasmania. The colonial government itself was not even inclined to consider the aboriginal Tasmanians as full human beings, and scholars began to discuss civilization as a unilinear process with White people at the top and Black people at the bottom. To the Europeans of Tasmania the Blacks were an entity fit only to be exploited in the most sadistic of manners--a sadism that staggers the imagination and violates all human morality. As UCLA professor, Jared Diamond, recorded:
"Tactics for hunting down Tasmanians included riding out on horseback to shoot them, setting out steel traps to catch them, and putting out poison flour where they might find and eat it. Sheperds cut off the penis and testicles of aboriginal men, to watch the men run a few yards before dying. At a hill christened Mount Victory, settlers slaughtered 30 Tasmanians and threw their bodies over a cliff. One party of police killed 70 Tasmanians and dashed out the children's brains."
Such vile and animalistic behavior on the part of the White settlers of Tasmania was the rule rather than the exception. In spite of their wanton cruelty, however, punishment in Tasmania was exceedingly rare for the Whites, although occasionally Whites were sentenced for crimes against Blacks. For example, there is an account of a man who was flogged for exhibiting the ears and other body parts of a Black boy that he had mutilated alive. We hear of another European punished for cutting off the little finger of an Aborigine and using it as a tobacco stopper. Twenty-five lashes were stipulated for Europeans convicted of tying aboriginal "Tasmanian women to logs and burning them with firebrands, or forcing a woman to wear the head of her freshly murdered husband on a string around her neck."
Since when do people care to apologize to black people? Any apology would be tongue in cheek.
