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Australia: The Floodgates are Open

by clorenz1 | December 13, 2005 at 01:10 pm

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Cronulla Riot - Australia -"Today is The Shire's Independence Day"

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The violence in Cronulla has opened the floodgates to a huge outpouring of emotional please for tolerance and racial acceptance. The talk-back radio stations are broadcasting non-stop call-in discussions where Aussies with ethnic backgrounds are revealing the history of this kind of intolerance going back thirty or fourty years in Australia. According to what I'm hearing the 'Lebs', Greeks and other dark skinned Aussies have always been considered 'less Aussie' than the Anglos. I have been hearing dozens of stories of growing up with the sideways looks and the distance the Anglos are keeping from the 'darkies'. Racism in the 70s and especially in the last 5 years.

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clorenz1

at 15:43 on December 13th, 2005

This story has been picking up steam, and has many different sides, as well as opinions regarding what directly caused the riots in Australia. It is certainly clear that race issues have played a large role in this Australian story.

Warren Hudson who provided the photographs for this story was interviewed recently and gives some local backgroud on the riots. Click here to read the article...

And you can read a different perspective posted on NowPublic, yesterday, here... Click here...