Part 5: Flinders Island invasion | Rulla's Connection To Country [-O-] | ABC Australia

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'Rulla Kelly-Mansell is a proud Tulampanga Pakana man, State League footballer and the director of Make Runs Maxi, a charity that promotes positive mental health.
Rulla takes us on his journey back home to Tasmanian telling his story about how his cultural connection to country helped him to overcome mental health challenges.
He takes his mum back to Flinders Island and talks about the history of the Island with his relatives, the spiritual connections and experiences with racism. #ConnectionToCountry
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[@joeygibson8444]

This video is incredible to see these perspectives. I don't think the aim of the video is to place blame, as some of the comments underneath have said. I think it is to acknowledge the atrocities that occurred in the colonial settlement of Australia and acknowledge how difficult life has been for Indigenous Australians due to systematic policies, attitudes, values and racism. I don't believe that colonial life was an easy life for white people either, and there were difficulties and casualties on both sides (Many more on the Aboriginal side). However, I think it is super important to note that the Indigenous Tasmanians had absolutely everything taken away from them including family, culture, land, dignity, etc. Acknowledging these events and educating all Australians on the significance of events such as the Black War, is the only way to further our country and work towards reconciliation. To anyone that may have found this video offensive, please open your minds to learning about some of the conflicts that occurred in the European settlement of Australia and show some compassion.

[@lukeduke3001]

a nice video its good these guys can talk about their shit get it off their chest not every body is going to like what is said but better out than in put it in the past

[@amywas1]

Why is it deemed so appropriate to talk about "White People" as the perpetrators of all that is bad in this world? We don't talk about the genocide in Rwanda in terms of "Black People" hacked to death over a million of their fellow citizens in the short span of 100 days. We don't talk about two million villagers and intellectuals being slaughtered by "Asian People" under Pol Pot. We talk very sensitively about the Israelis and the conditions in Gaza and occupied Palastine under Israeli occupation often compared to open-air inter-generational prison camps and we certainly wouldn't blame "Jewish People".
But when it comes to "White People", somehow people feel absolutely free to let it all hang out. Keep stroking that hate and resentment and say what ever you like. Here on for the ABC for some reason it is vigorously encouraged
You never hear a story about the efforts of "White People" in teaching literacy and numeracy to indigenous kids; hoping to raise their condition, often in the knowledge and full regret of the impact the arrival of Europeans had had on their indigenous counterparts. No the constant propaganda line is that the indigenous people were one big happy nation living harmoniously in some sort of demi- paradise and then "White People" happened.
If you have a story to tell, go ahead and tell it. We would love to hear it. "White People" like "Black People" and "Yellow people" (yes, sounds ridiculous doesn't it - just waiting for the rest us to cotton on) come in different measures of good and bad and play out their parts within a set of given circumstances of better and worse. Those days were definitely worser days, especially in Tasmania where even fair skin was no protection against being flayed alive.
That is the truth of it and that is what I would like to hear being told.