Letter
Belling the cat
Stella Yee says what others think but never have the courage to say. We are still, and always have been, a racist nation. That derives from imperial and aristocratic Britain which has for centuries sought to separate itself from the rest of humanity. That was after all the basis of the British Empire.
Those around the planet who had the misfortune to be colonised were regarded as lesser beings. That view justified what was done to those others as they were of lesser value.
It takes an emerging reality a hundred years of evidence to the contrary to rid those minds of that pompous self-belief. The emergence of a multipolar world that is simply no longer prepared to tug the forelock to that inflated collective ego that will render that belief the racial conceit that it is!
— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041