Racism in Australia: "As If the Police Don't Already Have Enough to Deal With"

I stumbled across the video above just before, and sat there laughing at how ridiculous the entire situation is: I mean, is there a situation? Is there a high sense of racism in Australia? In Aussie, Aussie, Aussie? Yes, yes, yes.

Racism is all around. Quite often you pass white utes with bumper stickers that read 'True Blue' or 'Get Out, We're Full!'. Quite often you see Facebook statuses saying "playing 'Spot the Aussie'", implying that there are a small amount of what constitutes as 'Australians' in certain areas of Australia.

Allow me to give you a very brief history lesson: Aboriginal people lived here in peace. One day, ships full of white convicts came around and people from those ships began to claim parts of the land and began to massacre the Aboriginal people. These convicts then told the Aboriginal people to basically conform or die, assimilate or be massacred, so some conformed and a lot died. These convicts stole the babies of Aboriginal people and one went so far as to declare the 'Half-Caste Act' wherein these white convicts basically thought that they could 'breed-out' Aboriginal genetics from half-Aboriginal, half-white people. Yes - some loathed Aboriginal people so much that they saw fornication, sometimes forced, as fit.

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There are a lot more horrid things that were performed that white history attempts to ignore, but I shall not dwell into that as it upsets me terribly. Ultimately, and ironically, the Half-Caste-Racism Act occurred within these white settlers, and some began to 'breed-out' of racism, and that is where I fit into the story, as well as the majority of the students who have studied Rethinking Australian Studies, or any person who has common sense, per se. The only difference between this modern take on the Half-Caste Act is that in this Half-Caste-Racism Act situation, it actually works. 

Rethinking Australian Studies further developed us Half-Caste-Racists, and all in the name of voluntary attendance - no, we were not hunted down and forcibly taken to the university in chains and we were not beaten to a pulp until we listened and obeyed. We were reformed, and we were not assimilated in these reforming sessions. We simply learnt to think even more critically on what our society throws out into the world and we found our inner social justice voices, and we were able to rid ourselves of the preconceived notions based on racist stereotypes that revolve around Aboriginal people and their culture, as well as their appearance - this was emphasised when we all appeared quite stumped when our lecturer told us that him, as well as my teacher and another were of Aboriginal descent.

Take my teacher for Rethinking Australian Studies, the amazing Anna Liebzeit, who, if you Google Image her, you will not see anything of the sort that Google Images shows when you google 'Aboriginal'. Anna is an amazing artist, who does not specialise in dot-painting, who predominantly performs, and embodies the very notion that the Half-Caste Act was unsuccessful. So, is Google racist?  Well, take a look at the screenshot below and consider that for yourself. 

And just when I thought the Half-Caste-Racism Act was in full swing, I found the video at the start of this post. Unfortunately, we cannot travel back in time to teach these people the difference between moral and immoral, thus we have to rely on and pray for their sense of humanity, which after viewing the video, you will notice there is none of. This poor man has been racially prejudiced - his white neighbours in his street can accept watching Big Brother on their televisions but they cannot accept that this man has cameras moderating his own household in the event of racist attacks.

It is what Tracy Grimshaw says at the end of that clip, though, that tugs at my critical ear, "How on Earth do you get to the bottom of that? As if the Police don't already have enough to deal with." What are you saying, Miss Grimshaw? Are the Police's troubles troubling you? Do you have an inability to continue commentaries on television because of having to keep track on all of the incidents that Police need to respond to? Or do you think racism does not exist in this incident and that it is not a problem and that people who are racially prejudiced against should not give the Police any trouble? Is there no room for dealings with racial attacks?

"Racism was introduced into this country," says Adam, the fellow in the video below, who, by the way, encapsulates the very meaning behind my own post perfectly, thus 'Australians' should no longer be racist because racism is not 'Australian'. Advance Australia Un-fair. We are one, but we are many, and from all the lands on Earth we dare not come in the event of racial attacks. 

I am going to end this post with the full Australian anthem, and I will put in bold all the sentences or words that are morally and obviously incorrect; I will also underline parts that need revising:

Australians all let us rejoice,

For we are young and free;

We've golden soil and wealth for toil,

Our home is girt by sea;

Our land abounds in Nature's gifts

Of beauty rich and rare;

In history's page, let every stage

Advance Australia fair!

In joyful strains then let us sing,

"Advance Australia fair!" 

When gallant Cook from Albion sail'd,

To trace wide oceans o'er,

True British courage bore him on,

Till he landed on our shore.

Then here he raised Old England's flag,

The standard of the brave;

With all her faults we love her still,

"Brittannia rules the wave!"

In joyful strains then let us sing

"Advance Australia fair!" 

Beneath our radiant southern Cross,

We'll toil with hearts and hands;

To make this Commonwealth of ours

Renowned of all the lands;

For those who've come across the seas

We've boundless plains to share;

With courage let us all combine

To advance Australia fair.

In joyful strains then let us sing

"Advance Australia fair!" 

While other nations of the globe

Behold us from afar,

We'll rise to high renown and shine

Like our glorious southern star;

From England, Scotia, Erin's Isle,

Who come our lot to share,

Let all combine with heart and hand

To advance Australia fair!

In joyful strains then let us sing

"Advance Australia fair!" 

Shou'd foreign foe e'er sight our coast,

Or dare a foot to land,

We'll rouse to arms like sires of yore

To guard our native strand;

Brittannia then shall surely know,

Beyond wide ocean's roll,

Her sons in fair Australia's land

Still keep a British soul.

In joyful strains the let us sing

"Advance Australia fair!" 

Yes - there is a lot of revising to be done.