NEGROES AND WHITES.
MARRIAGE SUPPORTED. LONDON, June 10. Demanding protection for women aborigines, Miss Ruby Kich, the Sydney feminist, told the British Commonwealth League's Conference that they had neither human rights nor protection against irresponsible white men. Mrs. Hill (.South Australia), who drew attention to the decline of the aborigines, declared that the future of the race largely depended on Australian women. Miss Fleming, in a loudly-applauded speech, warmly defended marriages between negroes and whites. She condemned colour prejudice, and said there was nothing in anthropology or biology to indicate that a racial mixture was bad. The supposition that children of mixed marriages inherited the worst of both sides was an obvious biological impossibility. Countless millions to-day were the offspring of intermixtures of the most diverse types. | "It is absurd," she said, "to think that we arc going about in one another's countries and yet not going to inter- | marry."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 139, 14 June 1932, Page 7
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