Australia's disgrace...

“Attacking people on the basis of their race, their appearance, their ethnicity, is totally unacceptable and should be repudiated by all Australians irrespective of their own background and their politics.”

This was Prime Minister John Howard’s sensible reaction last weekend, after Australians were shocked, shocked, by the KKK-style beating white locals gave a few non-white residents who dared to "trespass" on their, evidently, "whites only" beach.

But for years, I've been pricking the conscience of my white Australian friends by arguing that it’s easy for them to accuse white Americans of virulent racism from their lily white haven down under; and, that they would be comforted in their moral indignation so long as there were so few blacks (non-white people) in their midst.

However, I always found their accusations against Americans especially hypocritical considering that these self-righteous stone casters were (indeed are) still forcing Australia’s aboriginal population to live under Apartheid conditions; incidentally, with hardly a word of condemnation from the international community.

But with the recent influx of “uppity minorities” from other parts of the world, many Australians are now finding that they are no different from the American racists they despised - as last weekend’s racial rampages revealed for the world to see. Nonetheless, Australian authorities fear that white thugs intend to continue their rampages “to reclaim their territories.” (And, they're even are inciting latent racists in New Zealand to beat-up local “foreigners” in solidarity with them.)

Of course, given the recent riots in France, perhaps these white Australians could defend their brand of ethnic cleansing as justified preemptive action....

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