Race hate site on Facebook attracts 4500 ‘likes’

By staff writers
news.com.au
April 26, 2013 3:11PM

Facebook race hate page against Africans gets 4500 “likes” Picture: Facebook

A FACEBOOK site which vilifies the African community in a western Sydney suburb has been liked by more than 4500 people.

Called “Had a dream I was in Africa, woke up, still in Blacktown” the page features racist comments about Sudanese and Indigenous people.

It has been used to advertise a meeting of the far right wing Australia First Party, to “end the refugee invasion of Australia”.

The page’s main picture shows Blacktown Railway Station, where a number of the local Sudanese population are on staff, with the caption: “all the black people live in Blacktown, hence the name. Lots of lols provided”.

The page appears to have inspired spin-off sites, including a site entitled “Had a dream, i had sheet on my head, woke up still a Muslim”.

Posts include “the africans are everywhere you look” and claims about Sudanese people being unemployed.

NSW Community Relations Commission CEO, Stepan Kerkyasharian, said he was aware of the page, but “unfortunately I can do nothing about it”.

“The difficulty with internet issues of race discrimination is jurisdiction,” he said.

“It depends on whose server the material is sitting on, and Facebook does not recognise the jurisdiction of the Anti-Discrimination Board.

“Unless there has been a criminal act that would bring in the police, we are unable to stop this form of race attack.”

The Reverend Michael Robinson, whose Blacktown Anglican Church has a significant Sudanese membership and a Sudanese co-pastor, said he counselled members of his congregation when they came under attack.

“I say to them there are people in Australia who do not like foreigners and you stand out because of your skin colour,” the Rev Robinson said.

“I tell them to stand tall and proud, because they are Australians too.”

The Rev Robinson said the Sudanese families at his church had come from a country rife with conflict and civil war and had settled well into Australia, where they had found work and a place in the community.

“They’ve all got jobs, in fact many have two jobs and they manage to fit in together despite the fact they come from different backgrounds.

“We have twelve different Sudanese tribes represented in our congregation and they manage to work together harmoniously.

“It’s a shame some Australians can’t manage to do the same.”

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Late-night commuters unite against racist and hateful rant on Melbourne train

• Angus Thompson
• From: Herald Sun
• April 12, 2013 12:00AM

FURIOUS passengers united to take a stand against racism on a Melbourne train as a woman exploded in a hateful rant on Wednesday night.

In a show of force against the vile diatribe, in which she called an African man a “black —-“, one of two commuters who had been shoved by the thug publicly denounced her racist taunts.

“This is not the Australia that she represents. None of this s— should be remembered after this,” the man said aloud to the other passengers.

In a touching sign of solidarity, a blond man told the woman, “If this is your country, then I don’t want to live here”, before shaking the hand of the other commuter.

Andrea, one of several people filming the scene, said she boarded the Craigieburn line train at Flinders St at 9.50pm and heard the woman begin to yell.

In the footage, the woman can be heard saying: “My grandfather was a sergeant in the Second World War.

“This is what us original Aussies fought for, to keep you black —– out.”

Andrea said the African man put his hand on the woman’s shoulder, to which she responded: “Get off me, you f—— black p—-.”

Several passengers then converged on the woman, telling her to shut up.

Seemingly shocked by the backlash, the woman said: “I’m being called a racist b—- in my own country.”

Andrea said she was impressed by the composure of the African man, the blond man and the man who confronted the woman after they copped the brunt of the poisonous outburst.

“It was impressive to see people stand up to her, rather than just sit back, as in similar incidents that have hit the media.”

The woman confronts passengers on the train.

Racism on Melbourne public transport achieved global notoriety after a man, egged on by several others, screeched violent threats at a French woman on a city-bound bus from Frankston in November.

Victoria Police spokeswoman Belinda Batty said Protective Services officers escorted the 37-year-old South Melbourne woman off the train at North Melbourne station and interviewed her.

Her companion, a 44-year-old Meadow Heights man, was searched and given a drug diversion notice after he was found to have illegal substances.

Public Transport Users Association president Tony Morton said while it was admirable strangers had stood up to defend others against racism, the incident further highlighted the need for staff, such as PSOs, to patrol trains as well as station platforms.

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Who Is Keeping Our Culture Alive?

The rant is unintelligent enough, but this once again begs the question: how does immigration ruin Australian culture? How do non-white people prevent us from going to the beach, eating meat pies, watching the cricket, drinking beer, wearing bikinis or having BBQs?

When are these people going to realise that not only is our culture nearly completely made up of the cultural contributions of immigrants, but that our culture isn’t even remotely threatened when a non-white refuses a beer, or wears a scarf on their head, or doesn’t eat meat?

Take a look at this idiot. Nobody has stopped him from growing a bikie beard, wearing a woman-beater singlet, growing a beer belly and wearing hobo gloves. He’s pretty comfortable, yet whinging like a fucking sissy.