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A success story is unfolding all across Australia : Comments
By Joe Lane, published 12/8/2009This year about 25,000 Indigenous Australians will have graduated from universities: a phenomenal rise in barely a generation.
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That’s a fair example of someone who attempts to diffuse racism buy being racist- and they say ‘reverse racism’ (admittedly a stupid term, for racism is racism) is a myth.
The following has also been stated a couple of times in various forms “what makes you think Indigenous Australians need to justify themselves to you?”
Well, as long as ‘Indigenous Australians’ are being offered more welfare (i.e. more tax money) than other members of the Australian Community and as long as they are being offered special consideration for acceptance into educational facilities over other members of the Australian Community) then yes, blunt as it is, they should have to justify who that are.
The question is, how do we go about doing this in a reasonable way?
Regardless of these questions it great that these results are coming through and hopefully this means that we are getting closer to a time where we can all acknowledge that Australia is not fundamentally racist but (cliché alert) a genuine land of opportunity for all who are willing to work hard.