The Aboriginal woman is performing a public service, ALGOREisRICH . Thank you for bringing her contribution to public attention. I care also about laws which are not impartially applied..which apply to one segment of the community but not to another on the grounds of gender, first cab off the rank, Australia's Constitution.

Albino child in Uganda Photo property of Every Child Ministries.jpgYour gift to Every Child Ministries can mean so much Designate for albino children if you wishIn Uganda, as in many African countries, albino children are often considered a curse, as is any unusual occurence. At Every Child Ministries, a Christian mission for the forgotten children of Africa, we understand that albino children are valued and loved by God. Like EVERY CHILD, they are valued because they are created in the image of God.

These children are often ostracized, sometimes ridiculed, neglected, despised. That's why ECM is establishing a program to reach out to them.

ECM is showing them God's love in a very practical way--by giving them the gift of a pair of sunglasses. This is not just a frivolous gift. The eyes of albinos are extremely sensitive to sunlight--so much so that the sun's rays can be a torture to them. The little boy in this picture walked around with his arm constantly in the air in a vain attempt to shield his sensitive eyes from the sun. Immediately after an ECM team member gave him a pair of sunglasses, his arm came down. He was able to walk around with his arm in the normal position, like other children. He immediately experienced obvious relief from the burning sun.

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This project was launched over the New Year's holiday, 2009. As we distributed the sunglasses we shared the Gospel story of God's amazing love with the children, give them hugs to demonstrate our acceptance, and gather information so we can keep in touch with them.

Albinos have a tendency toward skin cancer, sores and other health problems, caused because their skin lacks the natural protection that melanin pigment gives. Their condition, called albinism, is not curable. It is caused by a combination of recessive genes that cause them to be born without melanin pigmentation in their skin. Albinism can occur in animals as well as in people. Albinism is fairly frequent in Africa, where people frequently marry within clan groups, increasing the chance that this particular set of recessive genes will be combined from both parents.

Through the help of many friends, ECM has been able to do some practical things to help protect the children from the negative effects of exposure to the sun and also to create some materials that may help people understand albinism better and thus accept albinos more freely. Most of all, we are doing our best to make sure these children know that they are deeply loved by God, and to demonstrate that fact by showing them God's love in practical ways.

And you see where you come from.

And prob is what?

TTM

I stated in my earlier post - that it was likely to have been more than one racist remark, especially if the discussion was about QLD's backline. As to John's being excused responsibility because he was "drunk", why as assistant coach was he drunk at a team meeting?

Tahu has taken this and turned it on its head so the world can see. Yes, it is thoughtless racism, the standard everyday stuff that does the damage. I habitually call my friends black or white depending upon what they are, but I don't use derogatory terminology, especially when discussing people who aren't in the room.

Maybe this is part of the reason why Hunt & others are going to AFL where such sledging is a thing of the past?

As to the clown who said harden the f##k up, gladly, let the ref's look away for about 20 minutes while it is discussed and a compromise arrived at (ie. everyone gets to harden the F##K up, actually the Ref could do with it too if it is the clown I'm expecting). Certain areas are not and cannot be used for sledging, it is the way of the world now, because the affected player will be penalized and/or sent off for smashing the sledger in the teeth when they stand up (NB If one player cannot return fire, best stop the other starting it).

I suspect Wednesday night to be a PRIME example. This is the challenge, such sledging is no longer acceptable, as the response is no longer acceptable. If the referee's explicitly allow the sledge, they implicitly allow the response.

Guess in the family tree of life where you come from. Evolution makes experiments with life and we sometimes don't understand the miracles of life itself. On the family tree black Africans are your fathers to all the races we see today. So whites are just an evolutionary experiment with all the natural wonders of this earth God or not.

In all, all of life is just what it is, and religion is just a guide to the many great beings we are today.

And this is why with evidence that we came from black people and split up and become integrated through interbreeding and this is why we have the diversity of human species we have today.

So! Why are you fighting over such a small planet, which you have no control over, because your just and we are just a small species in a never ending time of us being here.

So now you have a lot to think about, my brothers and sisters in arms.

TTM

rechtub hold on to some thing, I AGREE!
At last some common sense,wounder how much of this rubbish is from other football supporters?
Or the cultural cringe QLD v NSW and WA against the east tripe.
Every single day, every one of them, the term is thrown around my shopping main street shouted.
And if I said ease up old mate?
Shut your mouth white barstard!
Boazy you do more harm than good ranting like that.
STG? how dd you put Muslims and boat people in that defense of every thing Aboriginal?
Can you not see you are so wrong to get that far into the gutter.
C J Morgan you will beat us many more times, because your team wants to win more than mine has more pride than mine and better talent than mine, oh and you have a coach who understands who should play in what position.
I want a better life for every race but while any one is free to be blind to his faults and spotlight another's we are getting no place.
A real man asks to talk in private and has it out jumping into spotlight to act like this is gutless girlish and we are better without the bloke.