Racism is a very big issue. I think most people say things without realising they are being racist. This doesn’t excuse their behaviour but most people don’t think before they say things. One line in Oodgeroo’s poems says “Black tribe, yellow tribe, red, white or brown” this means that there are so many races in Australia and people are going to keep on being racist because there are always going to be …showed first 75 words of 528 total…

…showed last 75 words of 528 total…it is. White people where very racist towards Aborigines when they first came to Australia and there was allot of discrimination going on swell. I am not saying the problem is better now or Aborigines are lucky to be living in today’s world but it isn’t as bad today as it was back when the white people first came to Australia and the Aborigine people where getting killed, mistreated and dieing from diseases.