I have bestowed upon myself the name “redneck” as a debating tactic, my dear Rancitus. The term redneck is a racist term like “nigger”. I have always considered it amusing when anti racists sterotype white rednecks while at the same time claiming that such behaviour is utterly reprehensible when applied to non whites. It allows me to quickly point out the fundamental contradiction in their muddled thinking.

I oppose aboriginal self determination because it has quite obviously become a social disaster. It is a bit like Communism. How many times does an idea have to fail before it’s most vocal adherents finally admit that they were wrong? Aboriginal leaders with foresight and acumen are now doing a Gorbachov and stating the obvious. Aboriginal communities living in the most remote areas of this country under semi tribal law are economically unviable and a social catastrophe. But there are still plenty of Robert Mugabe’s out there who don’t give a damn about the plight of their own people. They have got the “blame the white fella” attitude down to a fine art and the present unacceptable situation suites them just fine.

The policy of aboriginal self determination is one that has entrenched aboriginal poverty forever. But it has also granted expanded career opportunities to salaried aborigines who run the organisations set up to manage that poverty. The degree of graft and nepotism within those organisations has now become legendary.

Aboriginal leaders who promote the ideal of aboriginal self determination appear to me to be insincere and only concerned with their own self aggrandisement. These leaders constantly look for opportunities in this country to entrench racial division by seeking novel excuses to demonstrate self righteous hostility. This is used as an emotional lever to gain more public money.

Seeking to justify dismal failure is a difficult job, Rancitus. I don’t see how it will promote your self image as a far seeing social reformer if you continue to support a corruption riddled dying cause which is self evidently wrong

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the The - thank you for setting Redneck straight on the meaning of 'redneck' (total irony here). I have been following this thread and have found Red's rant totally offensive - certainly lives up to the moniker. I'm sure that red intends to be deliberately offensive so I guess he has succeeded.

However, he has also succeeded in illustrating the worth and necessity of articles like Stephen's - not what he intended I'm sure.

I am 16 and I am known around my school as a racist.

When I was a very small girl I was in an aborginal community in the Northern Territary when my family was caught in a drunken riot by a group of black fullas. Ever since then my family has had strong racist views.

My brother is in primary school and often fights with the black fullas in his class. He does not go looking for a fight but he sticks up for his friends(whom are white) when they call them 'yoghart' and other racist terms.

The black fullas of Australia have the exact same rights as the rest of Australia but they choose to abuse them. That is not our fault.

There is a small minority of Aborginoals that do the right thing and that are productive in our community. these are the aborginoals that should be treated equally not the rest of the aborginal community...

redneck , in the 1800's Aboriginals learnt farming , but were refused land and money by the governmentwhen they wanted to start up their own enterprises. they were not allowed to run in foot races against whites in qld - they were told they were "professionals".
in victoria they grew small crops successfully but the local farmers complained bitterly about their success in the market .
i understand the were not eligble for the returned soldiers land distribution after fighting for us - just bloody marvellous , really helped to set the scene for the future !!