Former Australian Prime Minister: A 'low, steady hum of racism' permeates Australia - Daily Rover...

When I was in Vietnam in 1966, lots of folks including me, wished Australia was an R&R country. I remember why it took Australia so long to become an R&R country. They didn't want any blacks in their country, on the beaches with the whites, or in towns and bars with their prostitutes. I wouldn't have gone thete if I could have just for those reasons. All the black WIA and KIA had red blood as far as I could tell. Now, the Prime Minister is up in arms about the indigenous citizens being scorned and putting up with racism. It still bothers me as you can tell.

Love him or hate him, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has long demonstrated a sincere frankness when it comes to racism and Indigenous issues in his home country.

Rudd returned to Sydney — he now resides in New York as President of the Asia Society Policy Institute—to speak of the “low, steady hum of racism” that remains in Australia at a Friday event commemorating a historic apology he delivered eight years ago to Australia’s Indigenous people for the “indignities” they faced since European settlement more than 200 years ago.