The Voice: Deep, Dark Wells of Racism, and Other Black Arm Band Myths By James Reed
According to a recent article in the medical journal The Lancet, a No vote will have “a “profoundly negative effect” on Indigenous Australians who have worked on reconciliation for nearly two decades.” I take it that this refers to the New Class elites in the black arm ban industry, and, yes, I suppose they will need to drown their sorrows of the bitter dregs of defeat in good chardonnay. This view is contrary to all the indigenous people cited by the No side, so we can ignore this playing of the race card.
Now to The Lancet paper. When I went to the home page I found the opening heading: “Women, Power, and Cancer: A Feminist Approach to Cancer Care,” and “The Lancet Commission on peaceful societies through health equity and gender equality,” so we know we have entered the land of woke medicine. Climate change is their big thing as well. But, there was no search engine, and Googling did not yield the paper, so I don’t imagine many are going to be reading it. If I could have found it, I would have subjected the paper to a relentless methodological critique. So, they are saved.
Oh, if the deep wells of racism have been tapped, it is because of raising this referendum issue, and the black arm band white guiltism of the Uluru Statement.
“Key voice architects say the referendum campaign has tapped into “a deep well of historical racism” and warn that Indigenous people will need to work “very closely” with politicians in the event of a Yes vote to ensure voice legislation “realises their ambitions for greater control over their lives”.
In an article for world-leading medical journal The Lancet, Marcia Langton and Tom Calma join fellow Indigenous academics Ian Anderson, Yin Paradies and Ray Lovett in cautioning a No vote will have a “profoundly negative effect” on Indigenous Australians who have worked on reconciliation for nearly two decades.
It comes as leading Yes campaigner Noel Pearson said a failed referendum would be “a disaster for all of us” and there was no plan B to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians, while voice supporter Frank Brennan said the poll had “created a hell of a mess” and sent race relations in Australia backwards.
With less than two weeks until polling day and early voting open across the country, Anthony Albanese on Tuesday declared the referendum was “certainly winnable” and undecided voters he had spoken to thought the question they would be asked on constitutional recognition through a voice was “fair enough”.
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