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To: naturalman1975
Thanks. Heck, we have a Senator named Coons. Sit's in Joe Biden's former seat. He's not changing his name.

Is it referred to African blacks, or for aboriginals as well?

45 posted on 01/13/2021 2:57:41 PM PST by SJackson (If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun...folks in Philly like a good brawl, BH Obama)
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To: SJackson

The people who use it use it to refer to anybody who is black. Historically it was mostly used for indigenous Australians because they were the largest black group around - there weren’t all that many African immigrants until Australia until recently, but I’m sure they cop the phrase.

Most Australians aren’t racist - but unfortunately we do have some who are. And I’ll happily condemn anybody who does use a slur against another - but I don’t think it does anybody any good to focus on things like the name of a cheese. That effort would be better off directed at the actual bigots who are still around.

I don’t even oppose changing some names where the names genuinely are racist on some level - but things like this just make that look stupid.


51 posted on 01/13/2021 4:02:17 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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