Post by Struth on Jul 24, 2023 5:36:40 GMT 8
The Editor
The Australian
To be discriminated against because of your race you must look, sound, and behave like a specific race. If you look, sound, and behave like a Caucasian person it is extremely unlikely you will be assumed to be an Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person or that you will suffer discrimination on the basis of that assumption.
I attended school in Cairns in the 1970s and worked as a DSS Field Officer in the ‘80s and ‘90s where I met many hundreds of ATSI people, none of whom looked remotely like Professor Brenda Croft, (Art of war: ‘I’m not the right type of Aborigine’, 24/07).
Watching Professor Croft on YouTube confirmed that she looks, sounds, and behaves like a Caucasian person and nobody who knows ATSI people would assume her to be any type of ATSI person, much less the wrong type.
With so much money now being given to ATSI people we really should start doing our due diligence to confirm a person claiming to be ATSI looks, sounds, and behaves ATSI and isn’t simply claiming to be ATSI based on a distant ancestor.
Having a drop of ATSI blood in a majority Caucasian bloodstream does not lead to any form of discrimination but it seems to have become an excuse for accessing taxpayers’ money intended for those who are unmistakably ATSI.
(224 words)
Peter Campion
Tolga
The Australian
To be discriminated against because of your race you must look, sound, and behave like a specific race. If you look, sound, and behave like a Caucasian person it is extremely unlikely you will be assumed to be an Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person or that you will suffer discrimination on the basis of that assumption.
I attended school in Cairns in the 1970s and worked as a DSS Field Officer in the ‘80s and ‘90s where I met many hundreds of ATSI people, none of whom looked remotely like Professor Brenda Croft, (Art of war: ‘I’m not the right type of Aborigine’, 24/07).
Watching Professor Croft on YouTube confirmed that she looks, sounds, and behaves like a Caucasian person and nobody who knows ATSI people would assume her to be any type of ATSI person, much less the wrong type.
With so much money now being given to ATSI people we really should start doing our due diligence to confirm a person claiming to be ATSI looks, sounds, and behaves ATSI and isn’t simply claiming to be ATSI based on a distant ancestor.
Having a drop of ATSI blood in a majority Caucasian bloodstream does not lead to any form of discrimination but it seems to have become an excuse for accessing taxpayers’ money intended for those who are unmistakably ATSI.
(224 words)
Peter Campion
Tolga