Courier Mail
University of Queensland Aboriginal studies lecturer Sam Watson said the dramas were operating an "exclusive white family club" that didn't reflect Australia's true demographic...At the same time as these pundits are happy to see white TV turn brown, they no doubt would praise the new national Indigenous television network ("for and by indigenous people") as a good thing.
Aboriginal MP Marion Scrymgour, who is Arts Minister for the Northern Territory, said people in indigenous communities needed greater representation on television...
So, if it's good for Aboriginals to have their own TV, wouldn't that make it bad for whites to see their TV turn brown?
If it's equality you seek, then you can't build up your own homogeneous TV station without respecting whites' right to the same.
If it's equality you seek, then if whites can't maintain their dominance over national TV then you would at least grant them the right to their own white TV channel.
But does that enter the brains of these two intellectual giants? I doubt it.
These type of responses raise the questions of: whether these folks do have equality on their minds; and, if Australia has an Obama moment and elects a non-white leader, would they then give a hoot about white rights? Or would they want whites to feel what it's like to be a persecuted minority? "Kick em when they're up. Kick em when they're down"?
The "true demographic" that Watson talks about is one where white Australians live, work, school and study with informal segregation. As one young couple said about leaving an immigrant area: "We didn't want to bring up a family in that sort of area".
I'd say that makes TV's "exclusive white family club" an accurate representation of white life in Australia. Diverse TV programs are, in the main, an unrepresentative fantasy world. So, by all means, create a fantasy channel for the part of Australia that embraces diversity. But give us our white TV that represents real life for most white Australians.
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