how easy is it to get the warm inner glow by attacking a tacky comedy skit. puff you chest, pat yourself on the back you have done your fight against racism you are all heroes.
where were you when the military were sent into indigenous communities?
where were you when the Cape York people had their native title rights shreded by the Wild Rivers Legislation?
How many of you have put your hand in your pocket and given money to the Close the Gap organisation?
Nothing worse than armchair heroes.......

Hear! Hear! Examinator!

<< I started a general topic on this and what seems to have been missed is that Harry's perspective/sensitivities in that he's from the deep south where this IS an issue.
To me had he not said something it could have come back and bit him.
Secondly he called it as he saw it so where's his crime? >>

Exactly.

What amazes me is the acrimony with which Connick is being vilified for speaking out. Some people really need to take a good hard look at THEIR values if they are so incensed by Harry's opinion of a tasteless act.

I also second the comment from Csteele, that had the guest on Hey Hey been Afro/American instead of white would the skit have still been shown? No-one from the anti-Connick contingent has answered this little conundrum.

We might like to kid ourselves that skin colour is no longer an issue, but we are not there yet, not by any level. Not when the colour of the current USA president's skin is still a huge issue for many American's. Anyone who has followed the reaction to Obama's election by most of the far right in the US, know that we are not a colour-blind world.

"Everybody knows that the unsophisticated Australian demographic that constitutes the program's audience is intrinsically racist - indeed, they're the same mob who voted for Pauline Hanson.
Situation normal - this is Australia."
Posted by CJ Morgan, Sunday, 11 October 2009 7:56:51 AM
Geez CJ not much of a future for Australia. Over 2 million Australians intrinsically racist. Perhaps their children will have to be taken away to eradicate this inherent,offensive trait.

Good stuff slasher.

blairbar: << Geez CJ not much of a future for Australia. Over 2 million Australians intrinsically racist. Perhaps their children will have to be taken away to eradicate this inherent,offensive trait. >>

Hi Blair,

While your quote was from the other thread in the General section, you make a good point. I wouldn't support removal of children from racist parents, but Australia's future would indeed be brighter if racists didn't have children in the first place - since kids undoubtedly pick up such ideas initially at home.

Australia would benefit by reducing its population growth, and those who are born here wouldn't be raised to be racists. An excellent outcome, in my opinion - if only it was possible!

Ah yes, the standard response of bullies and cads through the ages: "it was only a joke".

The pro-blackface mob also seem to be a little confused. "Oh, so only white people are racist?" they whine, then go on to argue that, because one of the participants was Indian, it therefore couldn't have been racist ... because only white people are racist?

Then, having defended their non-racism, they go on to blame the Indian participant and multiculturalism in general for spoiling good, clean, white folks' fun. Besides, all those wicked foreigners are way more racist than us!

As for those claiming it was just an impersonation of the Jackson 5, I ask again: in what way do coal-black faces, golliwog wigs and "Saturday Night Fever" disco suits resemble the Jackson 5?

Finally, no-one has yet explained the provenance of the Kamahl cartoon, other than skin colour. Which isn't racist?