CV and mad panic behaviour

[PaulP]

Im scared to even say much on the topic these days as the opinions are all a one way street. However, from the Herald Sun today about Winmar suing Newman, Scott and Sheehan over comments they made on their podcast about his famous jumper lifting all those years ago. Quoted from HS:

An outraged Winmar told the Herald Sun the trio had painted him as a liar and that he was taking a stand.
“I know what I said. I am not a liar. These white fellas are tarnishing my legacy.”

Really? Just imagine the outrage if one the three called him a black fella. I'll probably be labelled a racist for bringing this up. As for tarnishing his reputation, Nicky does a fair job of it himself beating up taxi drivers for asking him to prepay a fare. Probably shouldnt bring that up either.

One problem is that such outlier examples of poor behaviour by indigenous folks / people of colour are used as a leveraging device to suggest that because they can also behave like ar$ewipes, then somehow we're not so bad. This not only denies historical fact, it also denies a web of factors (social, economic, historical) that taken together create a harsher reality for them than for whites. And the other big problem is that it makes it much harder for non whites to make any kind of real progress.

Sorry, but I really don't have any interest in whites crying foul over individual indiscretions, when there are centuries of entrenched, systemic racism and oppression by whites that need to be resolved first.