Stan played the Race game without giving it a thought that it is two-way street game !
Plus, many people realise that two Wrongs will never make a Right ! Too much evidence that it only ends with more unnecessary misery ! No idealism & personal hatred warrants it !

Hi Nathan, thank you for the article,

I was not aware of the racial vilification Stan Grant and his wife were being subjected to from people, truly shocking. Yindyamarra (respect) is something very much lacking in today's society from some quarters. I've put forward my opinion here on the broader subject of racism, and I stand by those opinions. I await with interest Mr Young's essay on the issue, I'm sure it will be most interesting, we may even see it on these pages.

p/s, A common form of racism is as I posted earlier is the "nothing to see here" argument, the sanitation of history, the denial of past realities, the claim of unjustified entitlements its there and its racism.

I mentioned Fredrick Walker the commander of the NSW Native Police from 1848 to 1854. Mr Walker gives a report where he states they (his command) under his personal direction herded a group of Aboriginals into a river, where from the banks they shot them one by one as they emerged from the water, until it was to dark to see. How does one describe that action, murder genocide?

personal direction herded a group of Aboriginals into a river, where from the banks they shot them one by one as they emerged from the water
Paul1405,
What transpired before that ? How many was a group ? It certainly is a horrific action & inexcusable if that group did nothing.

Indy,

Just to highlight what I call genocide;

"They (NSW Native Police Force) conducted wide-ranging and frequent operations resulting in many dispersals and summary mass killings. Governor Fitzroy noted in the 1851 end of year report "that a great many blacks were killed," however no official action was taken to change the aggressive functioning of the force."

"When the first overlanding pastoralists entered the Port Curtis area, the 1st Division of Native Police under Commandant Walker was sent into the region to "have a month's sharp shooting.""

" Further official complaints to the government in Sydney of massacres of peaceful "station blacks" by the Native Police were brushed off in parliament by the Attorney-General as unfounded or exaggerated. Embarrassing information like these reports and further complaints from squatters, such as William Forster, who felt they {pastoral squatter) didn't get enough protection from the force"

George Serocold who was unhappy with the slow progress by the Native Police Force of clearing blanks from newly acquired pastoral lands described the situation as a Border War and called for the importation of the Cape Mounted Rifles from Africa to give a lesson to "these savages as will enable us to gain our moral ascendancy, let them be made to feel the miseries of war"

Would it be churlish to point out that the "Native Police Force" was primarily manned by....ahem....natives.

mhaze,

Not at all, its a fact the rank and file of the Native Police Force were Aboriginal under white command. Like the Jewish Kapo's in Nazi concentration camps they were most effective, and like the Kapo's cheap to employ. The Boarder Police, which preceded the Native Police was made up of Europeans, mostly military convicts and they were ineffective. AND your point is