Photo of the first course meal are included. If this post can be edited later. Three plates of deserts. Too sugary for any aged pre- diabetic person. Too much fat for the calorie conscious person. But it was White Australian food. Nothing ethnic was allowed.
Meet many white Australians. My age, in their seventies and eighties age group. Usual chatter. Bad service providers: government agencies, smartphones, children and grand trekking is Baby Boomers that we are Racist and Sexist.
Astonished myself that only two of the 48 old people arrived on electric wheelchairs, myself included. Two of my wheelchairs can fit in to a normal taxi. The usual Toyota Hybrid Camry, the most popular taxi vehicle chosen here in the Australian Capital Territory.
My wife and myself seemed to be the only non_white people at this event. Here in the south part of Australia, most (all?) INDIGENOUS TYPE people seem to be white as white possible. But in my home town (Darwin, Northern Territory), the blacks are black. We never know them, in our school systems in the 1950's and 60's other than the very accurately descriptive term we in over truly all used, BLACK.
Chatting with some of my fellow white people, we mourned the words that were OK, when we were young. Black. Piccaninny. Loobra (lubra, according to Google), Golliwog, and other nice endearing words that we used innocently with each other, as children, with all the races here in Northern Australia.
Now our primary school children tell us, we old people are RACIST, because we use words that had innocent meanings to all races here in Australia, on the middle of last century. In this century, these words are taboo, and can create legal penalties for everyone now.
This will later be expanded in my later posts here in Blogger. When my YouTube channels become used properly, this them of aged racism and aged sexism could also be expanded.
At this carer's consumer event, most of the older people there had hidden disabilities. The pool chips disabilities are easy. Two electric wheelchairs. One walking frame, sitting silently near to the dining tables.
A few of people had hard to notice evidence. Hearing aids. Walking sticks (myself included), and small badges on the front of their clothing, indicating that the person was VISION IMPAIRED.
