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Strangers in their own land - an extract : Comments
By Helen Hughes, published 7/3/2008Two Indigenous girls undergo a ten-week educational marathon in Sydney: they are overwhelmed by a world of signs and print of which they can make no sense.
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Indeed some the most virulent' individual' racists I have encountered are people who like to think they are fair minded, liberal and Christian. And they always use the ‘ I’m colour blind’ “we re all human beings” argument to defend themselves.
To set aside the institutional and historical agency of white racism as you have indicates how blind you are to your own agency,
Missionary; Mercenary; or Misfit? Which one / or combination of these are you ??