Raven wrote on Jan 21
st, 2017 at 9:11pm:
He is recognised by the wider aboriginal community as indigenous Herb, who are we to deny his aboriginalty.
Hold it right THERE, Raven! 'Honorary aborigine' I will accept, just as universities are in the habit of handing out honorary doctorates like boiled bullseyes and humbugs to clueless individuals who nevertheless make handsome donations, or who make all the right Leftwing-Luvvie noises on the ABC and other Far Left media outlets.
But otherwise you can't simply whimsically decide that someone with 1/20th aborigine or Eskimo or Hottentot blood is henceforth the genuine article and is to be regarded as a
fair dinkum indigenous Australian, Eskimo, or Hottentot. The criteria is a little more demanding than that, and involves the
science of DNA profiling and ethnology.
And who are we to call "BULLSHIT!" on pretentious falsehoods? When falsehoods are paraded as The Truth, then it becomes a slippery slope to more and greater mischief.
Raven wrote on Jan 21
st, 2017 at 9:11pm:
Raven has a an Aboriginal friend who is as white as he is. The only white blood he has is a Dutch grandfather. He was raised within the aboriginal community by aboriginal parents. Yet there are people who look at him as a fraud, pretending to be aboriginal to get all this "free" stuff that aboriginal people supposedly receive.
If you identify as an aboriginal and are recognised by the wider aboriginal community as aboriginal, then that's what you are.
Wrong.
Paul Keating is no more a 'Doctor of Letters' than I am, simply because a bunch of kiss-ass university bureaucrats wanted to flatter him for some more donations and for being a Canberra lobbyist for them.
Your Dutch friend is obviously way more European than indigenous, but so as not to seem ungrateful and rejecting of his aboriginal step-parents he plays along with the 'narrative' of being an aborigine. I can understand him doing that, but it still doesn't make it true.