Victorian woman and indigenous education worker Sis Austin
shared pics taken from a party on the weekend after confronting the person who
uploaded them to social media.
in one image guys are
dressed as Aborigines with their faces painted black.
any other image taken from the equal birthday party
indicates a woman with a painted black face, dressed like 2000 Olympic gold
medallist Cathy Freeman.
however Daylesford girl Ms Austin ended up on the receiving
quit and became referred to as a bully and terrible character who ought to be
ashamed of herself for sharing the pics.
the two as but unidentified men had attended an Aussie icon
birthday party near Learmonth soccer club in Victoria
on Saturday.
The pics have been taken with the aid of what she calls
“those who had been her excessive faculty friends” and “a few close ones at
that”.
that modified once she raised the factor it turned into
disrespectful to indigenous Australians.
Ms Austin’s put up quickly went viral and changed into
picked up through high-profile indigenous rapper and Yorta Yorta man Adam
Briggs who went on to proportion the put up, and said anybody defending the
guys can cross and “**** themselves”.
Briggs described the pair as “redneck scumbags” on facebook.
however at the same time as the hip hop artist ended up
getting a variety of support, many jumped to the defence of the men and Briggs
ended up at the receiving end himself before shutting them down.
Others also came to Briggs’ defence such as hip hop chart
toppers The Hilltop Hoods, and indigenous Australian singer/songwriter Thelma
Plum who shared the debatable black face photograph on her social media feeds.
Plum, who called the partygoers
“disgusting little boys” additionally shared their picture on her Twitter and
Instagram feed, encouraging human beings to call and shame them.
In an interview with Sky information, the host of the party
stated the backlash became “political correctness gone incorrect” and the guys
in the images were his fine associates who're “decent Australian blokes”.
but, it wouldn’t be the primary time an Australian party has
held a comparable birthday party and created a storm of controversy.
In October 2013, a young Australian girl named Olivia, threw
a 21st party with an African topic in which visitors were asked to dress up.
a number of the pictures which later surfaced confirmed some
birthday celebration goers with black painted faces, attracting a storm of
controversy from worldwide news shops.
Olivia defended the subject matter in a now delated Tumblr
post pronouncing she made it an African subject as it became somewhere she had
continually desired to move however had no longer supposed to cause offence.
“i'm one hundred% certain that events would be held that
could be ‘Australian themed’ or American themed or maybe international
locations of the sector, and in that example I don’t believe all of us could be
indignant,” she wrote.
“human beings put on Oktoberfest costumes to events and no
person cracks it that they may be no longer German? So what i am announcing is
I do understand the humans who've painted themselves have angry humans, despite
the fact that none of them intended that …. but how can human beings be annoyed
that the general public of the human beings on the party had been celebrating
any other nations subculture.”
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