PS. The word “racist” wasn’t in my post anywhere. Maybe you’re worried you are???

i’ve been to places like Aurukun, Katherine, Kununurra and the Tiwi Islands. Full-blood indigenous people are afforded nothing that “Part Aboriginal” people are. It’s a fact.
I’ll admit my comment about “part aboriginals” being afforded the same aducation etc as white people is wrong, but it’s much closer to that than the opposite.

If you don’t believe me that full-blooded indigenous people don’t consider “part aboriginals” indigenous, then go and find out for yourself. They struggle to accept people from different regions, let alone those with white blood mixed in them.

i said “part aboriginals” so what? how is that racist? my father is english and my mother is (enough generations back to be) Australian. Does that make me english?
NO. it makes me PART English, PART Australian. to find something i said as ‘racist’ is ridiculous.

While i’ll happily admit that my remark about part/full education standards was made in haste and was wrong i’ll staunchly stand by this (without being racist):
PART Aboriginals are afforded better and more things (like education) than full aboriginals. There is absolutely no doubt about it. That’s why you rarely see full aboriginals in positions of power. Look at all the people that were on ATSIC before it was disbanded.
look at all the tribal elders for areas outside Arnhem Land and the kimberleys. You’ll struggle to find any full aboriginals.

If you’re going to get picky, then the word “aboriginal” should even be used. I’m aboriginal as i was born here. I’m not indigenous though.

Say i’m racist if you want. But i’m not.

I commented somewhere (not my blog) that it is typically white folks protesting that racism is a thing of the past, ‘we’ (read THEY) just need to move on, they can’t be responsible for what their forbears did, etc etc etc. A course, I could just be relating to ‘merican white folks …. but I doubt it.

Earl: Yep, you’re right. but I have to regretfully say, as much as I love kiki and I think he is a sweet, sweet boy, his view unfortunately represents a large proprtion of white Australia and their paternalistic views – and that’s why it wont happen.

kiki: What-choo talkin’ bout Willis??? This sort of stuff is what I meant by unwittingly offensive. I hope you’re just taking the piss??? Where do I start? “Part Aboriginal” is no better or worse than saying “half-caste”. And no, Aboriginal people, regardless of definition are not afforded the same education as white Australia. Are you really Andrew Bolt??? I hope I’m reading you wrong and you’re just taking the piss out of yourself and your kind as a privately educated white boy from an “effluent” suburb, in which case, good job, dude.

Right now, Barack Obama is the ONLY black Senator in the US. When he becomes President in January there will be none. So is it really out of the question for someone to come out of the blue (as Obama did 4 years ago at the Democratic Convention) to become PM?

I don’t really know, but maybe it could be possible.