Seventeenth century
Black Australia
Imagine
Forty thousand years before
Island hoppers were White men
Seafarers in dugout canoes
New scenario
Why
Now
Cook is black
Banks is black
England is black
Europe is black
Americas are black
Skinned
Aborigines are white
And
Happy still
To be left alone
No understanding of colour
And no need to know the difference
Australis a new nation of blacks
From the Old World
The world is black
But whites run free outback
In this unforgiving place
White natives
With kangaroos
Emus
And strange things
From Gondwanaland
They must be rounded up
Chained
Shot
Starved
An evil
Blight on the new world
Driven out of traditional lands
A white minority
That would be un- Australian
12 thoughts on “White Blacks”
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really interesting points of view
To really understand how aborigines of absolute quality feel in todays worls we only need to empathise.
it is not not true wat peepz say its all crap
Hmmmm!, interesting
Could I please have the author’s name? Thanks I need it for an english assignment.
this, paolo is one of the most truest and strongest poems i’v ever read and i thank you for that. it was truly inspiring. keep up the good work. an idea for your next poem could be about us as aboriginals and the ahivements we could have in the future. but hay your the poet. peace out brada. keep it real.
hey , this poem is very interesting. But what does it mean ******I need it for an english assesment
May i get the authors name who wrote this poem.
Thanks
Regards
Bryce
good ^_^
O my thats sad
Could I have the author name. I am doing a project and would like more information
I think it is a good poem. But all your poems are making it sound that all whites are bad. We can’t change what they did and yet we get blamed. You say don’t judge on colour, but in very poem you are. I think everyone and you need to open their minds to achevie peace. We know in the past white people did the wrong thing, but we weren’t the only ones.