atomou, I haven't been following this thread until this morning and haven't read through it yet. But so far LouL makes the most sense. It seems to me that your position is summed up by your comment "this govn't should do something to cleanse our collective conscience as a nation; and that something ought to be bloody good!" From that comment it appears that clearing your conscience is the most important objective as far as you are concerned. It reminds me of the welcome home march for the Vietnam veterans, it did more to allow those with a guilty conscience to rest easy than it did for the vets, they still had to work through the same problems with the same access to help afterwards as they did before. Did anything change in their day to day world? On issues such as this, allegations are often made about someone or another being racialist. I've found through living overseas and observing from a distance that our society does not have a great deal of racialism within it, but it does have a large amount of reverse racialism, and that tends to reside in many of those who would consider themselves the champions of whatever injustice they are supposedly objecting to.
