Posted on 08/04/2016 4:14:46 PM PDT by naturalman1975
A cartoon depicting an Aboriginal father clutching a can of beer and unaware of his son's name has been condemned as racist by Indigenous groups.
The drawing by veteran cartoonist Bill Leak appeared in The Australian on Thursday and shows an outback scene in which a policeman is bringing an Indigenous child back to his barefoot father.
The policeman says: 'You'll have to sit down and talk to your son about personal responsibility.'
The boy's father responds, 'Yeah righto, what's his name then?'
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In other words, the cartoon shows two indigenous men - but the people who think it is racist have only noticed the one who is barefoot and holding a beer can. Not the one who is holding down a responsible job.
To me that shows where the real racists are in this equation - they can't even see a positive depiction when it's right in front of them.
The same cartoon could certainly have been drawn about plenty of white families in Australia - but there really is a crisis in many indigenous communities in Australia in terms of the behaviour of kids and acknowledging that and not trying to hide it is a critical part of trying to fix it.
Evil White People, children of the damned, may not express any negative thoughts about wonderful oppressed people of color. No matter what. Truth is not an excuse.
Is there an implication that the father has many children with a variety of women, and therefore does not recognize a particular one? That would certainly be a reasonable situation in the American underclass, irrespective of race.
I’m not seeing anything racist. Well, I guess that makes me racist too, right?//
If it’s being denounced as ‘racist’ then it’s probably accurate.
There is that implication, yes - as well as the implication that some parents don’t care about their kids.
Kids need active, involved parents in their lives. Preferably two of them, preferably one of each sex. I know this better than most. I was orphaned at nine. I was incredibly lucky that other adults voluntarily took on that role for me, in particular some of my teachers and some of the parents of my friends. You can get really screwed up if nobody is filling this role properly for you.
Only if someone is also playing an acoustic guitar and weeping over it.
“...that the police officer is also depicted as Aboriginal.”
He’s just a tool of the white racist power structure. /s
clearly, it’s the beer talking...
I agree. The real “privilege” in the world is “two good parents privilege,” and I had it in spades, even if we did get clothes at Navy Relief and eat “ship food” and vacation at my grandparents’ farm.
The situation of orphaned children is usually unavoidable, but most other situations where parents are lacking are the choice of the adults.
I’ve had a lot of “stuff” go on in my nearly 30 years of marriage (and I’m sure my husband would say the same), but I’ve come to the conclusion that sticking with it is taking a stand for order in society, for order in the universe. Any choice is going to involve a certain level of unhappiness, so why not make the choice that builds up the human community?
Btw, you’ve had such an interesting life. I always feel like your posts are a window on a different world!
Great point about their blindness.
Hopefully his editor stands firm.
I thought it supposed to be Je Sui Charlie.
Not Je Sui ISIS.
But that was so many memorials ago. Who can keep it straight?
I wonder if the kid was in the Choom Gang?
Choom Gang? NO, the BOOMerang Gang. What goes round, comes round.
I think these people forget what happened to the boy that cried wolf.
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