Fired up

At the Black Steam Train blog, now back on track after a spell on the siding, this question:

“Can anyone please explain to me how it is racist to say ‘All Aboriginal people are (insert derogatory stereotype of your choice)’, but not racist to think all Aboriginal people use poor grammar and are capable of speaking or understanding in only the most basic of English, or have only one way to ask one another where they are from, or who their family are.  I’m told only the first one is racist, the other simply ‘cultural awareness’.”

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