Tuesday, October 24, 2006
~ 7:13 PM ~
A large part of my day today was spent at another mining conference. During break sessions, they had set up an exhibition as well as a mini aboriginal art gallery.
One of the stands at the exhibition was put together by one of the world's leading petroleum companies. As part of the exhibition booth, they had put up pictures, paintings, and drawings that little children aged 9-10 had done.
The theme was to draw a picture that showed how bad sniffing petrol was.... There were some very cute pictures with people on the floor, very bad spelling, some crazy robberies occurring.. then..slowly, i noticed something rather amusing (but very very indicative of racism at such a young age)..
... every single person that was depicted in the drawing as a petrol was coloured in .... (wait for it) ... BROWN or BLACK....
RACISM MUCH!?
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