{"id":199831,"date":"2007-06-24T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/24\/yes-it-is-racist-beds-are-burning-edition\/"},"modified":"2007-06-24T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T23:40:00","slug":"yes-it-is-racist-beds-are-burning-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/24\/yes-it-is-racist-beds-are-burning-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, It Is Racist, Beds Are Burning Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(It&#8217;s a reference to the song by <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Midnight Oil<\/span>.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20070622\/ts_afp\/australianativecrimechildsex;_ylt=AhwkzkETiXJnOS7ujZJ0ditvaA8F\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20070622\/ts_afp\/australianativecrimechildsex;_ylt=AhwkzkETiXJnOS7ujZJ0ditvaA8F\">Australian clampdown on Aborigines condemned as racist<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fri Jun 22, 1:44 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>An Australian government plan to ban alcohol and pornography in Aboriginal communities to try to curb rampant child sexual abuse was labelled racist and knee-jerk by indigenous groups Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister John Howard announced the unprecedented measures on Thursday following a government report detailing paedophilia and juvenile prostitution in Aboriginal communities across Australia&#8217;s vast Northern Territory.<\/p>\n<p>As government ministers appealed on national television for health professionals to help solve what Howard described as a &#8220;national emergency&#8221;, critics said Canberra&#8217;s plan had been hastily prepared and poorly thought out.<\/p>\n<p>Indigenous activist Michael Mansell accused Howard of trying to stir hysteria against Aborigines ahead of national elections later this year, where the prime minister&#8217;s conservative government will seek a fifth term in office.<\/p>\n<p>Mansell said the government&#8217;s plans singled out Aborigines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be different if his social behaviour strategy applied to everyone in Australia, but it doesn&#8217;t, making his policies racist,&#8221; said Mansell, the director of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a racist attack on the weak and an immoral abuse of power, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">amounting to nothing more than political vote scoring<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Emphasis mine<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(It&#8217;s a reference to the song by Midnight Oil. Australian clampdown on Aborigines condemned as racist Fri Jun 22, 1:44 AM ET An Australian government plan to ban alcohol and pornography in Aboriginal communities to try to curb rampant child sexual abuse was labelled racist and knee-jerk by indigenous groups Friday. Prime Minister John Howard &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,978,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-politics","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}