For me Racism = prejudice + power.
Rainier,
Hole in one. I sadly have to agree with you there as I experience that dreadful phenomenon every day. You see I'm in a minority in the area I live in where indigenous have higher authority than any other & I can assure you that you've never been more right in saying anything.

SOG!no you are unfairly charged as a supporter of a pedophile and as a racist.
At that time in history,I was there no one thought the song offensive!
And no one knew ,remember no conviction yet, charges against that man would be made.

Here is the reason this thread offended me from its 1st post
In explanation I feel dirty and ashamed about the way Aboriginals have been left out of this country,s mainstream.
I with every bone in my body have pushed for reforms, while even after the end of my work life continued to serve these folk.
BUT just as the charges against sonofgloin are manufactored and BASELESS, so to is this threads claim.
That does far more damage than good!
Once a 15 year old girl put a poster SHE HAD DRAWN up, showing a lynching of a first Nation Australian, *then found it*.
Took the elders to it,saw it published on the front page of the local paper.
Then bragged about doing it at school!
More harm than good comes from fighting phantoms!

Rainer, in the words of Shakespere, "me doth think thou protest too much." Rainer, YOU are a racist.

G'day there ONTHEBEACH...

Many thanks for enlightening me, apropos the word or words used by this 13 years old female offender. Given the profile that racism has received over the years, there's really no other course available to those authorities who have carriage to deal with this serious matter ?

She should be conveyed by a horse drawn cart to a public square, whereupon she should be placed in an approved public 'stock' and therein submit herself to public humiliation. She should remain so fettered, until she fully admits to her crime of wilfully disparaging the good fame and character of the entire primate family !

God help us ! This country is slowly dissolving beneath our feet. Through surging political corruption, organised crime, ethnic and religious revolt ? And what do we all worry about ? What's spread across the front pages of most of our tabloids ? Some stupid inane remark uttered by an impertinent young 13 years old girl, for goodness sake !

We sure have our priorities right eh ?

This footballer bloke should just let it go, and move on. Or perhaps there's something more to all this ruckus, another agenda maybe ? If not, there's far more important things in this life to worry about than this damn nonsense !

jayB insightful, and maybe true.
We all, every one of us, should look for the middle path to a better future for the First Australians.
Some will want to use my body parts for this, but racism, on both sides, note that, stands in front of improvement.
Yes racism always and from any source is evil.
But it is not only majority's using it.
Some use it for personal gain.
Some simply know no better
BOTH sides have work to do, work we must not fail to get done.
Bit concerned about my Dogs, Sky is black and white, is the name OK?
Lost Blue at Christmas.
Got Bella as a gift hope Bella is not a racist name?
She was named after me, so while she is my best mate should I be offended? nah! only when she bights my toe to get me away from the PC.

o sung wu - Or perhaps there's something more to all this ruckus, another agenda maybe ? If not, there's far more important things in this life to worry about than this damn nonsense !

Ahh so. If you recall a bit of high school history, about 2000 odd years ago there was a roman empire, and the politicians or whatever they called themselves were about as bent as their present day counterparts in Australia. One of their number dreamed up a system to divert public attention from the monumental stuffups caused by political ineptitude, namely the roman games which ultimately led to the olympic games. Obviously the current crop of bloodsucking parasites can't invent something that already in existence, so they use a number of other distractions, one being political correctness, another being homosexual affairs, yet another contrived racial conflict, and so on. The parasites have already realized the sheeple are the most apathetic of their kind on planet earth, consequently inventiveness isn't critical. Anything that sends the stupid sheeple wandering up a blind alley is fine, all the distraction needs to do is to take the mind (if indeed sheeple have a mind) off the disasters resulting from political ineptitude.