I was there visiting my grandmother who is quite passionately religious. I might have talked to some EoFFers about her before actually; she's, I guess, so "into it" that she's actually converted Jehovah's Witnesses that have come to her door trying to convert her. I cannot for the life of me remember what strain of Christianity she's a part of but it doesn't really matter 'cause it's one of the bigoted and ignorant strains that we all have a bit of an issue with.

So I was sat there talking with her and mum and she starts talking about politics. This was back in 08 just after Kevin Rudd had been elected and he was apparently "not for Israel" which made him a really bad politician and she was getting all uppity about it. I was sitting there thinking "wtf has that got to do with anything?" but kept my mouth shut 'cause you know I'm pretty polite.

She kept hammering on about different stuff and eventually settled on the topic of National Sorry Day. There's a lot of explanation here which I'll kind of skip on but up until about the 80s there was forced child removal policies in place where the children of indigenous families - particularly in traditional communities - would be removed (obviously) from their families and kind of "raised" as white kids. Basically there's a history of the Government trying to breed and educate the black out of the native people of this country. Kevin Rudd was the first guy to stand up and deliver a formal apology and actually acknowledge, yeah, holy smurf, we were a mob of s, sorry about that, let's try and improve things in the future.

But yeah so my grandmother is surprisingly racist as well and started talking about how this was just furthering the welfare attitude and showing discrimination against white people and this and that and I don't really want to go into it because it pisses me off just thinking about it but I had a bit of a flare up at her and it got heated and I swore and one of the staff came in and escorted me off the premises for bothering a resident. I might've yelled at her a little bit too because I was mad and thought she was outside of her rights to do such a thing