If you’ve read any ‘Aboriginal’ media interviews, or watched NITV for longer than an hour, you’ve probably come across the question ‘Who’s Your Mob?’, and for those who never heard it, let me explain it to you, and for those who have – I want to tell you why I despise the term. .......
Can anyone please explain to me how it is racist to say “All
Aboriginal people are (insert derogatory stereotype of your choice)”, but not
racist to think all Aboriginal people use poor grammar and are capable of
speaking or understanding in only the most basic of English, or have only one
way to ask one another where they are from, or who their family are. I’m told only the first one is racist, the
other, simply ‘cultural awareness’.
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