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Racist Australia : Comments
By Bruce Haigh, published 11/6/2009Polite and sometimes not-so-polite racism is the underbelly of conservative politics and conservative attitudes.
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Adelaide,SA., wrote an excellent article
(in my humble opinion) for The New York Times,
Dec. 17, 2005, called, "Australia's Dangerous
Fantasy." The article was on the Cronulla riots,
and racism in general. For me, it was a real
eye-opener - because I was buying into the media
'hype,' at the time. If anyone's interested you
can read it at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/opinion/17sallis.html
I fully agree with Sallis when in ending she says:
"What happened on Cronulla Beach warns us that
our self-inflicted wounds are festering. A volatile
part of our-community is deeply alienated, unable
to belong, and another volatile part has retreated to an
irretrievable past and a mythical notion of racial purity.
If contemporary Australians are to live at ease with
ourselves, we need more education, less fear mongering
and, not least, greater honesty about the culture of
racism that is so damaging us."