Belly posts: "Hasbeen I do not, never have, think of you as racist.
I saw in your post nothing other than something many would have said.
Of course many would say likewise, there are plenty of racist people in the world, and they are not all white, not all Anglo Saxon in origin. Some are black, some are Asian, some are very conservative people.
Many of us are racist through fear of others, they look different, they speak different, their customs and values are different. We fear they are going to take our jobs, take our homes, impose their customs and beliefs on us. These fears are natural feelings, but we need to overcome these predigests and realise these different people are the same as us, human beings.
So much political capital has been made out of 'boat people', put in their position I would be doing exactly the same, I would be a 'boat person'. As a humanitarian society we have a moral responsibility to treat refugees who arrive at our shores, with dignity, show them respect, feed, cloth and shelter them, and at times take them in permanently, nothing less. Not as one conservative Laborite once put it to me "Australia should blow the B's out of the water,"