Amongst other
atrocities performed in Australia against
Aboriginals, the use of "black" and "white" as racial identifiers was taken
dangerously literally. Not all Aboriginals are
dark brown; some are very pale or even
albino. Families and tribes were split into different
cultural roles due to their different colouring - the "white" ones were taken into
Anglo-Saxon society and forced apart from their "black" counterparts, who were forced into
slavery and institutionalisation.
In light of this
bizarre discrimination, it is now politically contentious to refer to racial differences as "blackness" and "whiteness". The more "correct" terms are "Aboriginal" and "non-Aboriginal".