Originally Posted by DeadVim

Blimey, this must be the longest running thread I've started ... they are usually dead by vulgarity or indifference by now.

Originally Posted by Turban Explorer

I've been to plenty of outback communities including some isolated ones in the Gulf of Carpentaria. If there are plenty of inter-marriages, as you say, then I haven't seen them myself. In fact, I've met more members of the stolen generation than I have those who have inter-married.

Originally Posted by ponyrama

I did say "maybe"! In my experience, people who express racist views are on occasion ignorant of the cultures and values that they are judging, and uneducated about the ways and norms of people of different races. My statement was not to say that they are ignorant or uneducated, merely that in making a choice to be racist, they are maybe ignorant or uneducated in that respect.

I wish I could say I was sorry that my view may get peoples backs up. But I am not. I find racism of any kind so totally offensive that for me it is an emotional thing, as I am sure it is for those people who are subjected to racism every day of their lives. To say that the debate about racism should be unemotional is a little patronising I think.

If you can give me an example to justify when or why the alternative view is appropriate, I am prepared to listen. But I suspect you will not be able to find any event in history where a "whole race" of people did something so terrible as to be tarred by it forever and justify mistreatment of their race on the basis of that by others.

Originally Posted by Kim67

Well I have many relatives that are married or in relationships with indigenous Australians. I also have two half brothers that have indigenous blood. A large proportion of my family has grown up in North Western Australia and some in the Northern Territory As Ponyrama has pointed out, you may not even know what you're looking at.