So accusation of aboriginal Uncle Toms abound but no one can come up with any names. Clearly they were thinking of Price and Mundine but ran a mile when called out on it.

"Reading Aunty Lee's email this morning certainly put a lump in my throat."

Me too.....but I managed to hold it down.

There's quite a lot of information about Aunty
Bilawara Lee on the web:

This is just one link:

http://naidoc.org.au/award-finalist/dr-aunty-bilawara-lee

Interesting person, life, and culture.

The term "Uncle Tom" is probably also ageist. What is the difference between betraying your own culture and holding your culture to a higher standard of behavior. Communists seem to talk about universalism when it suits them but talk about ethnic nationalism when it doesn't. I say that we need to adopt new ideas on our own terms.

mhaze,

When did you come to the conclusion, if you have done so, that Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price are Aboriginal Uncle Toms? After all you are the only one here who has mentioned, Mundine, Price and Aboriginal Uncle Toms. I did say to Foxy; "Its always been the case with some indigenous leadership, the Uncle Tom types" I then qualified that by saying; "I know this to be the case in America, where some native tribes sided with the colonisers" You asked; "who are these leaders you think are Uncle Tom's?". Being obliging as I am, I gave you the name from history of Tamati Waka Nene as being an "Uncle Tom" figure in my opinion. I asked for your opinion on Tamati Waka Nene, but you are as yet to be forthcoming. Can I expect your reply shortly. In the mean time I think you should dispense with claims that Mundine and Price are Aboriginal Uncle Toms, that's very racists of you to think that.

Now the Kudos Kid has discovered Communist Uncle Tom's! Those pesky Communists are into everything!

Foxy,

All I hear from you is wave after wave of emotion and bugger all actual facts. Apparently, the voice is going to solve all the Aboriginal problems in one fell swoop where 1000s of Aboriginal groups and advisory bodies have failed.

Rampant alcoholism, take one voice and come back tomorrow.
Wife beating, two voices and a Hail Mary.
Kids not going to school, double voices for them.

There is zero evidence that this voice will deliver anything that has been promised and instead create a greater racial division in the country.

If this instead proves to be a huge Labor cock up in a long line of Labor cock ups then it will be a scar in the life of Australians for generations.

Village idiot,

You are the racist that first used the racist slur "Uncle Toms". Considering the Yes racists have used this slur primarily against Price and Mundine for obvious reasons it would be difficult to see who else you could be referring to.

Either admit that you are a lying creep or point out who exactly you meant.

Oh Dear, the name calling SM now thinks Price and Mundine are "Uncle Toms", he says; " for obvious reasons", is that what you think? What are those obvious reason, I fail to see them.

I will say that from the time of first colonisation, indigenous the world over have been let down by some within their own leadership who have believed by being submissive and accommodating of the colonisers that they, and their people, will be spared the brutal consequences of interaction with the new comers. This attitude has been proven to be a fallacy, the meek suffer just like the bold. Take the Romans for example, wherever they went they were oppressive towards others.