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By Stephen Hagan, published 25/5/2006Not a lot has changed over the last one hundred years: racism still persists in Australian society.
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Mr. Hagan’s articles have always indicated that he will never be convinced of anything he does not want to believe. This one is no different. As always, it is the white man’s fault. The ‘lighter skinned’ aborigines he criticises are nowhere near as deserving of approbation as are the whiteys. He can’t wait to delve into the past – apart for an understandable swipe at Andrew Fraser – because that, it seems, is where he lives – in the past in relation to his own people. Dwelling in the past appears to be a real problem for indigenous Australians; one that keeps them hopelessly bogged down in poverty and violence.
He is short on argument if he has to keep raking up the past, trying to judge that time using today’s totally changed morals and laws.
Not satisfied with the problems of his own people, whom he could probably help – if he stopped the blame game - he now takes umbrage on behalf of another group of ‘blackfellas” supposedly discriminated against by wicked white Australians. There is no evidence in Mr. Hagan’s writing to suggest that he is interested in anything but keeping the black versus white pot boiling.
If Mr. Hagan is looking for racists, he need not look much further than where is sitting now.