'New dream time for black homeowners'

Anyone else find that a little condescending if not offensive?

yeah, not so good.

yeah that's not so good, but what do you expect from News Ltd?

doesn't make it any better, in fact it would make it worse, but is it supposed to be a word play from the MLK speech?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamtime

Also the 'black' reference is to Aboriginals or Indigenous Australians, both acceptable and widely used terms. Black...? Not so much.

yeah, i wasn't thinking. i knew it was about the aboriginals.

There skin is different from my skin, so its funny.

This was an interesting one I found out over there, especially since the black descriptor hardly raises an eyebrow over here.

I suppose the eyebrow raise on my behalf was because it has never really been a term used to describe Aboriginal people... other distasteful terms? Yep but not black. It is really something I associate with American culture which is also part of the eyebrow raise.

i really have nothing to add to this thread except: oooh, yay! jigalong and the rabbit proof fence. i did a report on this for one of my anthro classes and found it absolutely fascinating.

I cant stand the double standards that the state has with the indians here.

Eh, Rupert papers.

that's the exact same first reaction i had.