Rusted on Col,

Have you ever wondered, just a little, why for example people might campaign for the return of stolen property, be it land, money, or even children?

The mere fact that these same people may be Aboriginal, white, Asian, or other does not mean that their claim is being predicated on the basis on their race. Indeed their claim is based on the original act of crime or negligence being

Herein lays your own ontological blindness and ignorance of not just your own racisms but of institutional racism.

Read you stupid comment again and try to fathom why it’s so full of contradictions, ignorance and the most virulent ideas of racism you purport to rail against.

C’mon, even an old dog like you can learn new things!

kartiya jim,

I have no need for amateur anthropologists, missionaries, mercenaries or misfits pontificating and declaring what I should say or do. You might have trained other blackfellas up to listen intently to your every word or wisdom. Jump in or bugger off mate. And what the hell would you know about our ‘cause’ anyway if you’ve never lived it

Col Rouge: "Racism is to distinguish between people based on race. I do not support racism..."

Could this be the same Col Rouge who only recently regaled us with his idiosyncratic theories about human genetics, asserting the superiority (of course) of those fortunate descendants of Anglo-Saxon genetic "stock"?

More to the point, does anybody believe Col's claims that he doesn't support racism?

Much that I'd like to think that Col has learnt something from his engagement with those who are better educated on this topic than he is, I think that his recent apparent enlightenment with respect to racism is more a case of disingenuous sophistry than any kind of real shift in attitude.

His comment to the effect that Australian Indigenous people "dreamed up" the documented genocidal history of Australia betrays his deeply ingrained racism, as does his classification of humans into "Cauacasian", "Negro" etc.

Surely this topic is starting to exhaust itself. On the one hand we've got Col Rouge, redneck and other genocide denyers, whose racist views are so entrenched that its impossible to contemplate them changing, and on the other, good people whose frustrations with the other mob are causing them to start having a go at each other. Just as a bit of a diversion, and to keep the anger focussed and positive, check out how closely the professional whites of today resemble their forebears in their genocidal mindsets here:
http://mike-servethepeople.blogspot.com
(Post: Black armband series 5)
Respect and regards to all except the racists!

Thanks Mike and CJ!

People are converging on Canberra from all around Australia for the openning of Parliament House on 12 February.

They will start at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy at Old Parliament House at 11.30 am and march to Parliament House for a rally at 1 pm.

The demands are to immdeiately review the NT intervention, stop the land grab, quarantine racism not welfare, restore the Racial Discrimination Act, and implement the UN declaration of the rights of Indigenous People.

So rainier, CJ Morgan and mike-servethepeople (I am always suspicious to the veracity of such “motivated” titles), three of you all having your little go.

Three to one. debating is a matter of a battle of intellect, get a couple of others to join your mob and we might be getting close to an even fight.

I will address this to you all, although it was originally directed to rainier and he has left it unanswered:

“Please enlighten us all to the “International Law” which governed
Battle of the Boyne,
Saxon invasion of Britain etc”

As for the invective which CJ and rainier are happy to banter, dearest Margaret said

“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”

She also said

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

The “saved generation” of aboriginal children, neglected and abandoned by their natural parents, are still being abandoned, raped and abused in aboriginal settlements today.

CJM, My reference to the superiority of the English was as colonizers, relative to the colonization of South America by the Spanish and Portuguese, Indo-China by the French, German and Belgium colonies in Africa (oh all Caucasian powers), the Japanese colonization of Manchuria in the 1930’s or more recently, the Indonesian colonization of East Timor or the Chinese colonization of Tibet.

I challenge you to name a more responsible colonial power, taken that no way, by the 21st century would Australia have not been colonized by someone and the original occupants required to share Australia with that colonizing authority.

The world is a changing place, the role of the hunter-gatherer was already obsolete 2000 years ago.

Oh CJM “betrays his deeply ingrained racism, as does his classification of humans into "Cauacasian", "Negro"”

Identifying people by their anthropological racial classification is not “racist”. That you choose to interpret it that way merely displays your small mindedness and limited, troll like, intellect.

Passy “People are converging on Canberra” more rentamob