This is Stan with his father Stan Sr.
His father discussed how he experienced overt racism as a young
man (born 5 years before me). "Racism was in your face. I was
called black person, boong, coon, abbo, blackie, you name it, I copped
it all the time. You couldn't own a block of land, you couldn't own
a house, you had to rent one. You couldn't be out late at night,
you had to be gone by sundown from the street".
Growing up in the 1950s, I simply don't believe this, and I support
this by commenting on the simple fact that the father's facial features
and skin colouring wouldn't attract any attention—and certainly not
mark him specifically as an Aboriginal. Nor would Stan Jr's today.
This is an image of Stan Grant in April 2020, and it's virtually impossible
to see him as a victim of public vilification because of his appearance—
which obviously doesn't identify him as part Aboriginal.
In fact, when Stan first came to prominence as a news reporter on
Real Life in 1992, nobody identified or described him as part
Aboriginal. It just never occurred to us to think of him as anything
other than a white bloke. And along with his increasing fame came
his increasing Aboriginality.
—Good luck to him I guess.
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