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Moving speech

bluecat*dancing — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 04:21:16 GMT

An amazing and moving speech by Stan Grant which is worth listening to and explains the Indigenous point of view and experience eloquently. It had me in tears.

Re: Moving speech

village_person — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 05:48:10 GMT

I hope Mr Grant mentioned the fact he was disturbed by the NRL's season-starting showpiece which sees a side chosen along racial lines.

Is Mr Grant discommoded by the AFL's Indigenous round of football? Why no AFL Caucasian round?

I smell a hypocrite and that brings me to tears.

Re: Moving speech

the_great_she_elephant — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 06:02:23 GMT

@village_person wrote:
I hope Mr Grant mentioned the fact he was disturbed by the NRL's season-starting showpiece which sees a side chosen along racial lines.

Is Mr Grant discommoded by the AFL's Indigenous round of football? Why no AFL Caucasian round?

I smell a hypocrite and that brings me to tears.

You remind me of me and my siblings when we were kids. There were ten of us, and although my mother was an excellent cook and none of us ever went hungry, we would sit around the table at mealtimes watching each other's plates like hawks as she dished up, to make sure nobody got a single pea or potato or spoonful of gravy more than we did.

Of course we grew out of it as we became adult.

Re: Moving speech

the_great_she_elephant — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 06:12:36 GMT

Just watched the video, Blue. In a word: AWESOME

Re: Moving speech

***super_nova*** — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 06:36:15 GMT

I watched te whole debate, it was very good.

Re: Moving speech

***super_nova*** — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 06:40:12 GMT

Have you actually watched the speech? It was not about football

Re: Moving speech

bluecat*dancing — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 03:21:58 GMT

I thought it was brilliant.

Re: Moving speech

imastawka — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 06:53:22 GMT

That speech was months ago.

This is Stan's response to it's reposting

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/the-overwhelming-response-to-my-speech-tells-me-we-can-be-better-than-our-racist-history/ar-BBoEnqj?ocid=spartanntp

Re: Moving speech

bluecat*dancing — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 07:28:22 GMT

Yes. and it is still relevant today, especially with Australia Day just around the corner.