edlong - Member
...If you do even a cursory amount of googling you will find that there actually were, believe it or not, people campaigning for civil rights in Australia in the 1960s...
Yup, don't tar all Ozzies with the racism brush.
Those who stood against racism faced vociferous attacks from the nasties, but most were totally ignorant of what was right under their noses.
I read the link when it popped up on Reddit recently, but felt compelled to read it again 🙂
Inspirational stuff.
it had the same resonance with how the british government treated Alan Turing. I think the Aboriginal people still face issues to this day. I dont think some people fully appreciated the freedom and independence they have in this country.
Surely the thread should have been named 'the other person' in that photo?
I'm sure a thread named the black man in that photo would go down a storm, wouldn't it. 😕
I dont think some people fully appreciated the freedom and independence they have in this country.
As a white man in Australia at that time he should have been free, as an Olympic medallist he should have been a hero. He wasn't not because of laws and prisons but because of attitudes and ignorance, and that is still what we have to make sure doesn't ruin lives today in the UK. Many facets of bigotry are illegal but the beliefs are widely held and they can still ruin lives, the way his was, while being near impossible to prove legally.
In my lifetime I think that the UK and most of Europe has made massive strides in creating much more equal societies, but i am always uncomfortable when statements are made like that, yes lets appreciate how far we have come, but also appreciate how much still needs doing. The job isn't close to being finished yet.
Surely the thread should have been named 'the other person' in that photo?I'm sure a thread named the black man in that photo would go down a storm, wouldn't it.
Depends on context imho - this whole situation was (is) about the politics of race - the other two didn't give an "ethnically diverse power" salute, the black / white thing is directly relevant and pertinent to the issue(s).
I've used racist terminology on here with impunity before, in the context of a thread discussion about acceptable / unacceptable language, but if I used the same language in another context I'd expect a lengthy or permanent ban.
In this case, the guy's whiteness is pretty much central to why he's being referred to. If it was coincidental then I'd be among the first of the liberal 'bed wetters' to question why someone chose to use skin colour as a label..
Evening.
All this happened just 4years after Selma, Alabama.
The bridge scene in the film Selma really affected me. Amelia Boynton Robinson took a hell of a kicking for what she firmly believed.
The men on that podium knew there would be recriminations awaiting them.
Could you/I do the same? Could you honestly say you'd risk life and future livelihood?
Chapeau to all that stood up to be counted.
Surely the thread should have been named 'the other person' in that photo?I'm sure a thread named the black man in that photo would go down a storm, wouldn't it.
lol
woooooooooooooooossh
(unless of course you were joking and the woosh should actually be mine 🙂 )
