The Australia of 2023 is very different from the America of 1963, but the historic opportunity to remedy a racial wrong is unmistakably equivalent.
Sixty years ago, on a glorious moment in August 1963, a 34-year-old black preacher stepped before a thicket of microphones on the steps of the Lincoln Monument to deliver what is perhaps the greatest oration in US history.
The rest is epic history. As he shared his vision of a country in which blacks would be judged on the content of their character, not the colour of their skin, King subpoenaed the conscience of white America. By doing so, he helped build public support for landmark legislation passed the following year, the Civil Rights Act, which demolished segregation in the South, and brought his dream of racial equality a quantum leap closer. King seized the historical moment.
Just as King tried to weave together various strands to produce a more inclusive American grand narrative without a wholesale rejection of the past, Pearson repeated atwhat he has been saying for years, that by adopting the Uluru Statement From The Heart Australia, has “the chance to put our complete story together.” It is a trilogy of “Indigenous foundations,” “British institutions captured in the Constitution,” and “a glorious multicultural unity.
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