GrahamY:"You don't have to identify as an aboriginal man for people to judge you by your skin colour."

Quite so. And the converse applies: if you look white the judgement of the viewer will be skewed that way.

Loudmouth:"those with 'friends' or who can talk up for themselves are going to win the prizes, get the jobs, go to the overseas conferences."

When white men do this it's called "the old boys club". What's it called when it's done by Aboriginal women?

Antiseptic,

In my experience, it's far more likely to be done by Aboriginal men, but either way, Black or White, men or women, it verges on corruption, it's destructive, and it has drastically weakened the whole Aboriginal movement.

Joe

I was trying for maximum ironic effect Joe, but fair comment.

GrahamY

>> Lexi, you don't want to argue because you are wrong. <<

Heh heh heh, funneeee.

Maybe OLO's name should be changed to MWOTHW - My Way Or The High Way.

Lexi is entitled to her OPINION based on HER interpretation. You are entitled to express your OPINION that Lexi is wrong based on YOUR interpretation of events. Lexi is under no obligation to continue posting her opinion any further than she chooses. Capiche?

So far, since the Judge Bromberg's ruling has not resulted in any stifling of the so-called right to free speech. Well let's just wait and see how that pans out?

"Maybe OLO's name should be changed to MWOTHW - My Way Or The High Way. "

Graham didn't threaten Lexi, no highway involved - Capiche?

R0bert

Every comment I have made in this thread directly or by hinting talks of the heavy weight these folk carry.
An industry run by whites exists around them.
Failure is rewarded.
Some just will not address this truth.
Bolt is no mate of mine, BUT PLEASE he spoke the words we speak every day.
The victims here are not celebrity Aboriginals.
It is the average MISSION living no future no hope dweller.
Who may not even be able to read or write,who in the year 2011 gets information from those who prosper by keeping him/her there.
Look to Noel Pierson, his ideas and thoughts.
And look away from the Status quo, it failed, a very longtime ago.
Look at my true story's.
Understand it was not easy to open that door, but many such doors are still closed.
We must commit to truth here and then we can move on.
The evidence, my siblings used,in the 1970,s to claim Ancestry,was a photo of my dad.
He was dead by then,a black and white photo, touched up and colored for mum,showed him in his last days by the beach.
MUM told them he looked black!
In two weeks, no longer I could claim,based on those lies I too am Aboriginal!
If it had been Derrin Hinch, talking about Pedophiles would we be talking here?
Bolt remains a grub.
My Dad? a man of his time he was quite racist/and white!