(08-11-2021, 05:23 AM)Mav date Wrote:A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.It can't be a divisive step, there are far too many scatterbrain solutions being touted that effectively divide rather than unify.
The only safe first step that I can see is that if you want to stop racism then do not be racist, you can't be half-pregnant, and you can't be selectively racist. Anybody can be racist, it's not the purview of the wealthy, the white or the Christians.
I heard a great speech about this, I think it was from Dr Tom Calma, he basically called for Indigenous groups and youth to stop the labelling as a first step to a resolution, and they basically disowned him. Instead they aligned with someone like Anthony Mundine to create and apply bunch of chest beating emotive "us versus them" labels, it can't succeed because it is basically a rock throwing war. Of course on the flipside Calma was also shouted down for calling for the change to Australia Day, but you can see that the problems here arise from both sides of the debate.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"