Who is they exactly? Who caused the brutality? None of this generation. Half of this generation wouldnt even have a clue what went on back then.
Its as simple as respect. everyone deserves it, however you dont get respect for having coloured skin, being gay or being elderly. Im sick of the chip on the shoulder mentality that any " perceived minority" carries around with them.
Goodes carried on incorrectly that night, as romantic a story as it was for that incident to happen in indigenous round.
It suits your argument to claim that it is all romance and that Goodes acted inappropriately. That couldn't be further from the truth. It is AFL policy that racial vilification is not acceptable. Adam Goodes is completely within his rights to point someone out in the crowd and have them removed.
It does not matter that it was a 13 year old girl. It only matters to those who think Goodes did something wrong or 'carried on'. No doubt it was a harsh lesson for a young kid to learn, but again, that is not Adam Goodes' fault. If he wanted to 'carry on' he could have ramped up the pressure on the kid and her parents but he didn't, in fact he handled it very well.
FYI,
http://www.cifhs.com/ntrecords/nthcc/A452_1952_420_1.html
Institutionalised Indigenous kids were classified by how 'white' they were. Not just by parentage but by their actual skin colour.
Depending on how 'white' they were they would be shipped off to be turned into 'white' people.
Read the above link: among the NT Chief Protector of Aborigines complaints
[1] Sending half caste (whitish) kids South was making the local population more black.
[2] Even after they were sent South, they still came back not 'white'.
[3] They could save on transport costs by simply keeping them all where they were.
[4] They don't actually have anywhere for the males to stay, not to worry, he is sure the Church will do something, in fact keeping them here will make the Church pull their finger out faster.
If you look carefully you will see that of the kids listed, their mothers are all half caste and would have been put through the same 'process' to attempt to turn them 'white'. That is already 2 generations. This type of thing is documented to have happened from at least 1840 to 1960's. How many generations do you think that would have affected?
It was not one act of brutality. It was systematic government sanctioned brutality for generation after generation and AP Elkin took it to the extremes during his time in charge.
It is not the fault of this generation, however, this generation of Indigenous kids are not as far removed from what happened 100 years ago as you and I.
Think about it this way, nearly every child today is acutely aware of the significance of Anzac Day, that happened a 100 years ago but it still has a significant effect on how you and I live our lives today by the same token we as a society need to have a much better understanding of what happened to Indigenous AUstralians even if it was 100 years ago and we think it has nothing to do with us.