(AU, Aboriginal, _, slang) Relating to white people.
Finally, the colonisers were attempting genocide, they wanted us all dead. If I identified with my wadjela ancestry at the expense of my Aboriginality, the colonisers win.
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(AU, Aboriginal, _, slang) A white person.
It was the wadjelas that created the ‘one drop’ rule, that defined anybody with a single bla(c)k ancestor as black. ‘Traditional’ is such loaded language, enshrining a belief that we are stuck in the past rather than being one of the mos…
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