' We're told that one in five people living in
Australia have experienced racist abuse during
the past year'

victimhood industry sure growing Foxy although must admit people are racially abused daily by Indigeneous people when they refuse to provide grog money.

"One in five people living in
Australia was a target of racial discrimination"

How do people fall for this type of utter rubbish. Surely their own common-sense should tell them that numbers like this are inherently unbelievable. Yet I guess if you really want it to be true, you'll believe whatever BS is offered up.

So where does the 1 in 5 come from. Well they surveyed 735 ABORIGINAL people. So not 1 in 5 people but 1 in 5 aboriginals. And who did the survey? Other aboriginals in their community who'd been told they were researching discrimination for an anti-racism organisation. And the participants were paid.

Are you getting the feeling this wasn't an arms-length survey?

So what type of discrimination did they find? Well fully half of these poor folk had their property vandalised by persons unknown. By that matrix, I've also been the subject of racial discrimination - I'm sure its because my great-great-great-grandmother was Jewish. No other possible explanation, is there?

Also 85% of these 'victims' were discriminated against by being ignored. Yes, ignored -oh the humanity! So not being discriminated against is evidence of discrimination.

People who produce this type of rubbish are really hoping that there are lots of Foxys out there - people who'll read and uncritically accept the headline figure and not bother themselves with the detail. After all having to check the detail means thinking for yourself and who wants to do that?

runner,
Yep, like the girls at Cronulla were abused when they rejected the Lebs approaches.

Foxy,
Like you claiming the NT Intervention was racist, and that we detain illegal arrivals is racist. Your name in the post nobody elses.

Dear Banjo,

National unity will never be achieved until we
recognise that racism remains a clear and
present danger.

Google "Racism in Australia."

You don't need my name to do that or to look up
newspaper and other articles.

They're not hidden. And as stated earlier - history
will judge.

Foxy

what mean on earth do you mean by ' National unity' Have you seen the divorce rate? If husband and wife can't get along what hope has a nation.

Dear runner,

My husband and I get along beautifully.
So I have every confidence in our nation.
I don't believe we're some kind of exception.

I believe in our country and am proud of it,
despite the mistakes, and the challenges we face.
However, we always seem to get over the
problems and face them squarely. For a country that's
survived this long - I'm sure we shall continue
to do so - simply fixing things as we've always
done so successfully in the past.
I'm optimistic. And I have reason to be considering
basically good my own life has been.
The ethos of my parents was - study hard, work hard,
treat others fairly, take care of yourself.
All of that I've tried to do.