Not racist huh?

Originally posted by pintohoo ↑

many say that Oz isn't racist ---------- hmmm, this sounds pretty much like it to me

''I hated every day of school. It was the most awful experience. Every day there would be a racial challenge. Every day of school, somebody would call me a [racial slur]. They would pick a fight by telling me that my mother was Bigfoot, an ape or a gorilla.
I did OK at school, and you know, I wasn't an idiot, but it was just the most awful, horrible, lonely, miserable experience. We had a headmaster for much of my primary schooling who was just an overt racist, who was entirely happy to use nasty slang words to describe Aboriginal people.
The funny thing is that even though that school was located on lands of my language group — going back millennia — every day it was as though I had to beg permission to be allowed into a school built on my country.''

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-05/louis-peachey-voice-indigenous-doctors/102905308

but, we can learn from this man and his experiences. If we want to

''But interestingly, the culture of medicine was something that I understood. In the second stanza of the Hippocratic Oath, it describes the relationship between teacher and pupil. What's described in the Hippocratic Oath, among my people, is known as the uncle-nephew relationship. And so, I got that. It made sense.
Our first liaison officer at medical school was a fabulous academic GP by the name of Dr Jill Gordon.
When I didn't understand something, I'd go to Jill and say, "I don't understand the histology", "I don't understand the physiology". She would then connect me to an appropriate person.
The cultural equivalent of what was happening is that I was going to my mother person — that was Jill, holding the role of my mother — and she would introduce me to uncles, holders of lore and of knowledge. And it was their responsibility to teach me that knowledge. And it was my responsibility to show them respect due to their position. So, I got that relationship.
These relationships Jill established for me in my first year of medicine took me the whole way through medical school. It was amazing, fabulous, to have access to all these nurturing people.
The irony is having grown up in a system that was overtly racist, to then find myself in the "whitest" institution on Earth where there were just incredible cultural similarities between the culture of medicine and my own people. And finding that there was a group of ostensibly old white men — and some women as well — who owed me nothing and gave me everything.''

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this guy seems to think the Voice is a good idea

There are people like me out there who can give you an opinion as to what would be an appropriate way to do things, but even we don't get listened to. We are the people who some in the No campaign refer to as "elites".
If you do survive the horror that happens to you at school, and manage to find yourself at a university and get a good education, you can now be de-legitimised by being referred to as an "elite".
The difference, of course, between Indigenous elites and non-Indigenous elites is that 99 per cent of the Indigenous elites are one relationship away from poverty.

In a single generation, this group of incredible leaders have gone from poverty into the successful middle class to the point they've been called "elite".
And even now, Megan Davis is doing the job that she's doing because she is uniquely qualified. Please tell me how many other Aboriginal people we have out there who are Professors of Constitutional Law, with 10 years' experience in the United Nations?
Just Megan. So, she's not an "elite" — this is a Black woman who worked unbelievably hard, was gifted, intelligent, and managed to achieve things that were unimaginable.
But even now, we're having difficulty as a nation listening to her voice.
This is why we want a Voice enshrined in the constitution, we want [governments] to listen. If you could just come and have a chat with us, we might be able to direct you.
That's what we're asking for with the Voice. We know we've got problems in our community and we've got some ideas.
When Tony Abbott was the envoy to us Aborigines, he was worried about school truancy. The one question never asked is: "Why is it that children don't want to go to school?"
Here's the thing that we know about little human beings: they are vacuums for data. They want to know about the world around them. If you've got a group of children who don't want to go to school that's because the system is broken, not the individual. But we're good at demonising the person who's suffering.