The best time to discuss this is perhaps when calm,
not during the heat of the Day.
And these events take months in planning ahead for 2018.
An earlier post (please discuss the topic, not the persons)
offered a view that
“better it was the ‘Brits’….” “should call it a Thank You Day”
Is this not just like (as an analogy) saying in a domestic violence case,
“Stop complaining! You’re lucky I only beat you 5 times today.
xyz next door beat theirs 10 times.”?
Then “Don’t call this a sorry day, you should call it a Thank You day
in gratitude for being punched only 5 times! And not quite dead.”
And how would you
know what it would have been like if the Dutch
or another crowd cultivated and irrigated here?
Only refuting the reasoning,
hoping for logic, reasoning, filters, and empathy to be part of the education system.
I believe it’s good to
acknowledge past wrongs that happened,
happened to
our people, to
us as a nation,
(caused by many factors that continue to affect most beings now)
AND it’s good to work out what best to do next.
I reckon…. Not a sorry day, not a thank you Brits day, but a
mutual celebration of peace day.